So we are renting a cute little bungalow from a friend of ours at this time who is generous enough to give us a deal on the rent. We may be here a while.
Anyway, the house has hardwoods and of course we love hardwood floors. We had stained concrete in our house in Richardson. After two years we decided to never do stained concrete again. It's too cold and hard. Wood floors are the way to go, although I do like a nice berber carpet in the bedroom. Kate does not. When we build our dream house maybe we'll flip a coin.
In this house, it's all hardwoods. Old pine hardwoods that are charming. Except...
with sleeping infants. Our babies primarily sleep in a co-sleeper next to our bed. Most nights our routine is like this: feed babies, burp babies, stare and ooh an awe at babies for a while, drink a glass of wine or two, bathe babies (every other night), swaddle babies (Matt's job), play the YouTube of Hush Little Baby by the Horseflies between 4-8 times, slowly creep back to our bedroom with sleeping babies, set babies in co-sleeper, step away from co-sleeper gingerly.
This is where the problem is. As you step away from the co-sleeper, there is a spot you cannot avoid on the floor, unless you fall back on the bed, that as you are lifting your foot off the floor the floor creaks with the sounds of exploding fireworks. Many if not most times it sounds like a tiny person that lives under the house is shooting a tiny gun rapid fire. This, of course, is most frustrating as the babies will startle and wake up. Thankfully though, they are getting used to the sounds it seems. Less and less do the little firecracker sounds of our wood floors wake them.
Beware the old creaky wood floor with infants.
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