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I’m not sure what else to tell you.

@ Sara.  Our house is frequently loud, boys 7 & 5.  I’ll advocate for Buddrow and his grandparents. 

It’s Buddrow’s right as a 3 yr old to make as much friggin noise as he can.

It’s Buddrow’s grandparents right to spoil the crap out of him and buy him whatever the hell they want.  It’s not about Craig anymore for them.

Sorry Craig, pour a drink, fire up your bong, pop pills, hide in the garage, take up gardening, whatever…you’re just gonna have to put up with it.

Pete, I have two boys as well…one is 2, the other is 8 weeks.  Should I consider your message a stern warning?  I’m way ahead of you on the remedies, but I will absolutely forbid my folks from buying any drum sets…of course, they’ve waited their whole lives to torture me in this fashion…

Why would they hold the SABR convention while the Nats are on a road trip?

Craig, don’t listen to “Pete Toms” - he is the devil trying to lead you astray! 

My boys (5.5 and 3.5) make *plenty* of noise without having toys specifically designed to make louder, more frequent noises.  I figure that it is in everyone’s best interest to have sane parents in the house. To this end, I have established a blanket injunction against *all* beatings.  An ounce of prevention…

I’ll admit that I joined last year primarily because I wanted to go to the convention.  I now wish I had a long time ago because it’s pretty spiffy even if you don’t go to chapter meetings.  A handful of publications a year, some neat things on the SABR website, and of course the convention.

As for that, everyone is very approachable, I found.  Pretty much everyone with a convention badge is like you: someone who will talk about anything baseball at the drop of a hat.  The majority of well-used time is spent watching research presentations in a handful of the hotel’s conference rooms or ballrooms, and there are always a couple of more glitzy events like 2008’s premiere of an MLBAM documentary about the origins of baseball and a Q&A;with Indians’ GM Mark Shapiro.

Having grown up in a house of darkness and silence, I couldn’t wait to throw open the blinds and turn up the music - get Carlo lessons. We have the piano, the drums, three guitars and a trombone. Garage band in the summer, everywhere else in the winter. There’s just nothing like hearing Jake plunking out a tune on the piano; he’s actually composing. It won’t be noise for long.

About the drum set: Sound Proof room.  Regular insullation will work.