Noise Levels

After the Dinner Time video post, a friend asked, "Is it always that noisy at your house? How do you stay sane?"

The answer is: yes. Pretty much the only silence we get is when the boys are unconscious. Most days, the house is similar to the state fair. Kids screaming, obnoxious poorly played music (from the toys), animal sounds (again from the toys), flashing lights, the smell of poop in the air, junk all over the place... Tiff & I have had entire conversations where we were yelling at each other (like we would at a concert) to try to "talk" over the boys & their gear.

I never understood this before I was a parent, but you learn to tune a lot of the noise out. This is probably why people without kids get so annoyed at people with kids who don't do anything at the noise.

I still find it really annoying when its other people's kids, but when its your own kids and when they are this age, its cute. After all, this is them learning to speak, so its kind of exciting, especially when you think you hear 'mama' or 'dada' for the first time.