Loud is relative

Many moons ago, Chance went swimming in a kiddy pool with a deaf friend.  When the two of them took off their implants to swim......the noise was incredible.

They squealed and giggled at decibels that could have been hazardous to hearing people's health.

It was amazing to witness.  Two deaf kids running around without abandon punctuating their glee with noise.  Lots of noise.

That they could not hear.

Flash forward many years, and tonight at 10:45, Chance and a deaf friend again took off their implants to play in a backyard.  This time it was our backyard and it wasn't a kiddy pool, but a trampoline that caused the two kids to call out in glee.

Chance's Mom and younger siblings enjoy the new trampoline,
seconds after assembly was completed.

We got  a trampoline for Christmas but have not been able to set it up due to the cold and snowy conditions here in our state.

Today, the weather flirted with us, displaying a touch of spring like weather. We took the bait and set up the trampoline.  We reasoned that spring is closer now than winter, so it is alright to start preparing to play outside.

Although it is Saturday, Chance and his brother attended an all day sing off at school ending in a concert this evening.  More about what a sing off is later.

Chance had a friend over for what we call a "late night".  In lieu of a sleep over, sometimes our kids have late nights where they have friends over to play, watch movies, or play games with the family until the later hours.

Chance had no idea that we had set up the trampoline in his absence,  and when he got home, it beckoned him to come and jump.

The jumping was going very well.  I had dozed off on a bed with Chance's young sister and was awakened to giggles and shouts of glee.

Chance and his friend were LOUD.

Perhaps at 3:00 in the afternoon it would not have been noticeable or even worthy of discussion.  But at 10:45 at night, with neighbors who go to bed early, the noise came with an exclamation mark.

Chance's dad went out and told the boys that they needed to come in and engage in a less audible activity, to which Chance and his friend replied that,"We were not being loud!"

Uh huh.  Two deaf kids, minus implants are not convincing witnesses of how loud an activity is or is not.

It was pretty amusing to both see their joy and unabandoned expression, and the level of noise they produced when they could not hear themselves or anything else.

Now, all that is left is to apologize to the neighbors tomorrow for exceeding normal decibel levels late at night.

Chance is just going to have to take our word for it that it was loud:)