In Arizona, it is more about the height and weight of the child than age. My grandson got out of the booster seat when he hit 75 pounds at age of 7 as well as being fully strapped in with the shoulder seat belt which is based on the height of the rider but remained in the backseat. now he’s around 85 pounds at 9 years old, he could sit in the front but he prefers to be in the back seat with his siblings.
Yuck. I think LVP is here to stay. I love them. Cheaper and low maintenance than hardwood and far more attractive grains and width selections. They are long-lasting too. The best thing about it is you can install them in bathrooms too. LVP is nothing like the yucky 1970s vinyl cousin. They look realistic. A lot of new homes in Washington are now laid out entirely in LVPs and selling well because the carpet is a pain to clean, collects dust down on the bottom of the pile that the vacuum could never reach which causes odor, and the pile eventually flattens.
If you look at their house, it has red clay tiles with a hint of stucco body so that’s NM, AZ and southern CA dominated type of homes. Their house also has all-tile floor which is another clue of a southwestern home as carpeting is rare in these states. I now live in Washington and OMG. Carpet EVERYWHERE. In some older homes, they’re even in bathrooms and dining rooms! Mine has carpeted dining room. That’s crazy. Newer homes in subdivisons, the first floor are hardwood (LVP more likely rather than real hardwood) and upstairs bedrooms are carpeted. When we buy our home here, we are gonna dump all the carpeting and put in LVPs in the entire house. I loathe carpeting.
I read somewhere that the MacPhersons are based in San Diego County, no city specified. I do recall them starting out in Tempe where my mother in law live.
No. They live in the San Diego area. Funny because I am a native Arizonan and have lived in Tucson which is southern AZ. In my 18 years in Tucson, I saw snowfall only once when I was 7 in 1972. However, to Tucson’s east, Mt Lemmon snows every year. During my senior year, we got caught in snowstorm in the Sierra Vista area during our bicycling trip. A freak storm. But I was never a stranger to snow. My parents had a cabin up in the Rim Country on the Mogollon Rim where it snows every year and we went up there every winter break and stayed at our cabin. My whole adult years were spent in the Phoenix area where there is never ever any snow but in the higher grounds in the suburbs, they do snow around Jan-Feb. every few years. Love the snow on desert plants. Gorgeous. We Phoenicians drive to Sedona to see the red cliffs coated in snow.
Ravioli? Geez. Just give her a simple shirt in a color she likes but doesn’t have.