Sidewalk Saga

I had wanted to get Charlie used to noise and light while he sleeps so he would always be able to sleep anywhere. It turns out that our neighbors and the Brussels sidewalk department decided to help me in that goal. Since the day we arrived home from the hospital workmen have been tearing up the sidewalks on our street, dumping cobblestones in piles right outside our front door and then chipping away at them as they lay them down. As I write this the computer screen is actually shaking a little bit from all the vibrations of their work. And as if that weren't enough, the building next door (that is attached to ours) is undergoing a complete renovation. They start work promptly at 7am and their current project is to drill into the bricks that connect our two buildings. The sound is sometimes so loud that Kyle and I have to pause from our conversation and wait for them to finish just so we can hear each other.

We had been having Charlie sleep in a Moses basket in the living room and he was very good at sleeping through the noise, but today it just got to be too much. So below is a picture of Charlie asleep for the first time in his crib. Notice the tools I was using to try to get him to that state (and note that I succeeded!)