Thanks for the welcome, Karen My cute lil man is my son He's 4.5 and goes to preschool 3 days a week. This week they have book week so they'll be dressing up as characters from their favourite books on Thursday. I asked who he wanted to dress as, and he straight away said "Harry Potter"! My heart could've burst with pride lol he hasn't even heard the books yet but he enjoys the Lego playstation game and has watched parts of the movies with me - mostly he just knows the characters and knows that I am a big fan so he chose it to make me happy and I am ok with that! We have got him a Hogwarts robe, some glasses and a wand to wear. I will definitely share a pic (assuming hubby remembers to take some!).
P.S. those are some nice pics, it looks like a beautiful area. I hope things improve with Bella's health before you have to leave.

Shelley, I'm sorry to hear about the fires. We have seen some footage on our news here in Australia about the fires in the US and Canada, and it's just awful. I hope your mom's house stays ok.

Chris, I'm glad the party/battle was a hoot! That cake is amazing!!

Well, my son is back to full health (almost, close enough to go back to preschool anyway) so I'm glad it was just a quick cold this time. He seems to catch everything, poor kid! He was about 1.5 when the covid lockdowns and social distancing started so he didn't get a lot of exposure to anything at a young age, I guess it's all just playing catch up now. So far hubby and I have both avoided catching this one, hopefully it stays that way.

Christie thank you. She was so worried about all her photos. There have been over a hundred homes lost. Quite a few were her friends homes. I hope to see your sons photos.

Chris I love the photos. And we all love Harry Potter. What is the final gift? I am glad you forgave me and so awfully sorry about the damage. I am sure Hermione has a spell to fix it though. Bwawawa

Rocky and I have been going up and working on the siding on our little cabin. Just early mornings. To hot in the afternoon and I don't like leaving mom to long. Will post updates later. Tomorrow we are taking her to brunch with friends.

Shelley

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Shell

I am going to add a squat and plank challenge here. Yes you can modify to burpees my friends.

Shelley

My aunt tested positive for Covid. My cousin who’s a nurse said the numbers are rising like crazy and thinks it will only get worse by fall/winter. Don’t want to hear. I guess we will deal with this for the rest of our lives.

Shelley praying for your Mom and her house.

Chris hope everyone feels better soon!

Karen love your vacation pictures.

Kathy

Kathy wishing your aunt all the best. I think you are right. Covid is here to stay. Kathy seems her home is out of danger. My sister is coming for her today.

Chris for most Covid is no worse than the flu. The flu also can kill. I don’t blame you for wanting to stay healthy. I love going places though. I will avoid crowds. But not living my life in a bubble. I just can’t.

Everything is sore. A week of climbing scaffolding and bending twisting has left me sore. But strangely more limber.

Went on an hour walk last night with my mom. She rode her scooter. And loved it. It is hard to brake. So for steep inclines I keep a hand on the brake.

Shelley

Chris he sounds like he was pretty special. Amazon is pretty convenient.

My sister drove in from WA today. She is driving my mom home on Monday. I have enjoyed her visit and will be sad to see her go. I weeded and cleaned today. Then went to Menards to purchase some equipment to fix a leak in our hot tub. What a pain.

Shelley

Thanks for the mini challenge, I will give it a go. Last time I tested a plank I could do about 45 seconds. I work at a mine site where we have to have periodic medicals which include functional tests - amongst other things, one of them is a plank. We're meant to aim for 2 minutes (!) but I don't think anybody can actually do that, and I always say that my desk job should not require any kind of core strength!!

My son had an eye/vision screening test at preschool last week, and they called to say that he has almost no vision in one eye. We know that eye has turned inwards on and off when he's tired for a while and we had been meaning to get him checked out properly, but this came as a real surprise because he's very good at reading etc. They got him in to a visiting optometrist the next day, and they gave quite a strong prescription (+4.50 in both eyes). We wanted a second opinion because it seemed odd to have the same prescription on both eyes when one performed quite normally in the screening. So we took him on Friday to a paedeatric optometrist which is 3 hours drive away. This guy was really good and explained about how until about age 9, kids are still forming the neural pathways for their vision, so getting him into corrective lenses now is great because he will essentially rewire his brain which will help his vision later in life as well. He ended up with a similar strength of prescription, but different in each eye. He also put the prescription into the test glasses and my son could read the small letter on the screen straight away - even though his pupils had been dilated by the eye drops so everything would have been blurry.
He's looking forward to getting his glasses though, which is good, and he's been wearing his Harry Potter dressup glasses almost non-stop for the last few days!
Here's a couple of pics from book week on Thursday. He is obsessed with this costume and doesn't want to take it off lol. His little friend was dressed as Mario, and they had an absolute blast!

zumbaforever wrote: »

I am going to add a squat and plank challenge here. Yes you can modify to burpees my friends.

Shelley

Looking forward to the challenges. I need to get off my *kitten*! Also I’m amazed at the progress of your cabin. Burpees 🤣🤣🤣

Kathy