There Goes The Neighborhood and Sleep Training

When we moved into our little duplex almost a year and a half ago, we were thrilled with it because it seemed so big compared to our old studio. And it's still a nice place. BUT, the neighbors have progressively gotten much worse. Even though we live in a pretty cute area of town, we now have 1) Pot smoking scum bags across the street 2) Hillbillies who are always grillin' or working on cars on one side of us 3) Large, loud barking dogs across the alley and 4) New neighbors who share our wall and who are very loud. This includes loud talking in another language, loud TV after bedtime, snoring we can hear through our wall, and screaming children. (And I thought that WE were going to be the annoying neighbors with the crying baby).

It's enough to make us WANT to move, but probably not enough to make us ACTUALLY move. Too much trouble for now. But it is one more thing that makes us more likely to move out of state after Evan hits his 2-year mark at work in about 6 months.

In happier news, we've started sleep training Jack, and it's going surprisingly well! We started this weekend, and so far the longest he's cried is 30 mins. However, he's had several nap times and even a night when he went to sleep after only token protests! Yahoo!

EDIT: Sorry about my unwitting use of a slur in the above post. It has been changed. I honestly didn't know it was a slur. I'm naive.

UPDATE: The next door neighbors are pumping something with a deep base rhythm. I hate them. I feel like I am in college again - but not in a good way. Dina: We want to move to Cali, but we'd likely be in a similar situation there, only being able to afford a tiny apartment next to some new douchebags. On the bright side: We don't own our place, so we can move. :)