Sunday, March 8, 2009

Recent Happenings...

So, I know in almost every single one of my posts I always write about how "Spirited" Kaden is, in my Mom's persogenics class she has learned that Kaden is a very expressive child. We live in a 4 plex right now and our neighbors right underneath us moved in about 5 months ago. Well, the first week they were here they came up and knocked on the door and asked if we'd keep Kaden quiet. My first thought was "Yeah right", but we tried really hard. First off he's not really loud, once in awhile he likes to "hop" around, and when he does walk it's not a little feather like walk, but really that's the worst. So in the mean time they've come up 2 other times, they've banged on the ceiling, and it wasn't just a couple bangs, it was running all around the apartment banging on their ceiling just being very immature. During this time we are truly trying to keep Kaden quiet. Side note, this guy knew us before they moved in, he worked with Dan at Best Buy, so he knew that we had a 2 year old. So last Monday night I was pulling in from work, it was about 10, and the cops were pulling out. I go up to our apartment and Dan said "did you see the cops", I said "Yes", and he said "yeah, they're here because the neighbors called them on us." My jaw dropped and I said "why?" Dan told me the story and they came because the neighbors told the cops that it sounded like we were having a party up here. All Kaden was doing was playing on the computer and every time he got stuck he came and got Dan to help, so he was getting on and off the chair. When Dan answered the door he was holding Lincoln and they told him why they were here than they saw Kaden come running out of the room and the cop laughed and said, "Good luck with that." They pretty much told Dan that they're sorry for coming, but they have to respond to all calls. Than they left just shaking their heads. Dan and I were both in shock that they would call the cops on a two year old, we couldn't believe it. Dan was pretty upset and was about ready to go down there and have a word with them, but he didn't want it to turn into a fight so he went running instead. I called my mom in disbelief and she couldn't believe it. She told me that I should now just let Kaden do what ever he wants to do now and to not try and keep him quiet. That made me laugh that my mom would say that. The good news is we're trying to move right now, so hopefully in the next couple of months we'll be out of here. But here is the story of our recent happenings, kind of crazy, isn't it.

9 comments:

Jae said...

OMG Celeste!! I'm so sorry that happened, what JERKS? I'll come beat them up for you. I might be little but I have a bad temper! lol. Ugh, I hope you guys can move away from them like, now.

Alexis said...

Holy Cow! We had friends that lived upstairs and their downstairs neighbors did the same thing. I suggest that you have them come upstairs (if they're still friends) and have them watch Kaden and suggest what you should have him do to make things quieter. I hated living in an apt especially the top floor, it made it hard to let your kid be a kid. We wouldn't let megan jump and so when we moved into our house we told her that she could jump wherever (on the ground) she wanted. But good luck. I hope that things work out better or you find a place soon.

Diane Aland said...

Wow, that makes me so mad! How ridiculous and immature. I would have to agree with your mom. Wait til that guy has kids of his own and see's how it is. Hopefully he will feel like an idiot for how he acted, but i doubt it. Just keep doing what you are doing! I hope you get to move to a place with better neighbors!

Melanie said...

Thats lame!! (BUT REALLY funny what your mom said...I cant see her saying that :D) Anyway...Elliot and I hear the baby above us cry ALL the time, we hear her run around and we hear the dad even more. Thats what happens when you live in an apartment! Tell them to GET OVER IT, or move!! Im really sorry though...thats hard!!!
(Did you know that the guy (I wont say any names) that use to live behind my parents use to call the cops on them for getting his fence wet??)

Hayley Hatch said...

Who does that?! I agree with your mom - let Kaden be as noisy as he wants...break out the pots and pans and have a drumming session! :)

Brendan* Shea*London said...

Oh my gosh!!! I can't believe that. Get a freakin life people. Serious!! I am so sorry.

Ann G. Matthews said...

Your mom is right! (But she usually is, isn't she) I'm sorry you have to contend with people like that. I'll bet the police think your neighbors are a little weird! Hang in there! And please allow Kaden to be himself! We love him that way!

Matty and Jen-i said...

That is absolutely ridiculous! I hope you guys find a great place to live soon. It's amazing how much Lincoln has changed. They grow up too fast!

Anonymous said...

Our first apt was on the middle of 3 floors. Right before we moved an older couple moved in below us. We didn't even have kids and they would bang on the ceiling when we walked around-no tv on, no nothing! They called the landlord on us and came and knocked so many times. I asked the guy if he wanted us to buy wheel chairs and wheel around all day but he didn't think that was funny. If you don't want the noise-move to a top floor unit-or better yet go buy your own house. There will be noise in an apt-sorry people, deal with it!