TOO LOUD

We went to my niece’s graduation party today.   She lives about an hour-and-a-half from our house.   We planned on leaving so we could stop for lunch at Biscuitville—which my children and I love—and then get there in time for the party’s start.

We decided to take the new Model S as it has more range and we hadn’t taken it on a family road trip yet.   This was a good, short day trip to try it out on.   With the additional range we didn’t need to charge at all there and back.   Fortunately, there is a new supercharger station at the exit from the highway where they live, which is about as convenient as it gets, if we did have to charge the car.

On the way there my children were in good moods.   They were having fun with each other and they were being loud.   My daughter was almost screaming, and my husband and I kept telling her to be more quiet.    We lost our temper with her several times because she was so very loud it was painful.  We were speaking in whispers as examples, but both children were at a much higher volume level than they normally were.  

We arrived to the party, saw family, met Olivia’s friends and had a lovely time.   My daughter was enamored with a swing hung from a high branch in the back yard.   She spent probably half of the party on the swing.

We left and as we got back in the car we ran into the volume issue—again.   Both children had far too much energy and were playing some wrestling game in the back seat.   My daughter’s pitch and volume was just too much.    We told her many times, again, to be quiet.   Thankfully the children were happily playing together, and continued to do so the entire way home.

My husband and I wondered though if it wasn’t completely her—if it was the car.   The new Model S doesn’t have the third row to bounce the sound around in.   It also has a full glass roof, which doesn’t absorb sound like a material roof would.    We’re going to do some more tests (with shorter rides) to figure out if it’s a children or car thing.

Also, congratulations to Olivia on graduating high school!

The Big Boy Update:  I picked my son up from school on Wednesday and had some french fries in the car.   They were from earlier in the day and I told him they might not taste that good at this point. As he started in on his second on he said, “they taste as good as your hugs.”

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  The song, “Phantoms Can’t Hang” by Deadmau5 came on the other day.   This is a song with no words, but my daughter had a mental image about it.   She told me, “in my head it looks like a green blob with an emerald…sort of light green.”

Laura Croft Run:  My best friend and I were running this morning when we both saw the same thing. We were going up a hill and the low angle of the sun had elongated my shadow.   I had my cell phone in my left hip pocket and her cell phone in my right hip pocket and my hair in a long braid.   We both said, “Laura Croft!” at the same time.   I don’t have her dimensions or treasure hunting skills, but I did manage to run five miles.