Fireworks on the Fourth of July
Ten years ago, we lived in a tiny apartment in Utah and our back windows faced a parking lot. The rooms were in the back of the apartment so if anything happened back there, we had a front row seat.
Booms and Screams
Well, on New Year’s Eve, we put our 4 month old to bed and a few hours later, we had a full-blown firework show in that parking lot. Not just a few sparklers. I’m talking, the world’s loudest fireworks went off for TWO HOURS. I was dying and kind of wanted to punch someone. It’s fine.
However, our baby SLEPT THROUGH THE ENTIRE THING! I’m not kidding, she didn’t make a peep. I went in to check on her several times because surely the terrifying booming noises and screaming teenagers were waking her up. Nope, not a peep.
How, you ask? Her sound machine.
Use a Sound Machine!
I cannot stress this enough: if you have resisted using a sound machine up until this point, use one on the Fourth of July! If you have one but keep it pretty quiet, turn it up a little and scoot it further away from your baby. The hope is that the constant sound of the white noise will block out all of those fireworks. (Here is the sound machine I love.)
And if you’re one of those lucky people who has zero fireworks going off on the Fourth? Enjoy the silence. Oh, and can I come over? Thanks!