There Goes the Neighborhood

About three years ago, we moved into our current house. It was a big step up for us. Our first house was located downtown in a neighborhood where they sent out neighborhood watch notices frequently. It was not a great place to raise kids so once Hayden was born, we moved.
We now live in a small suburb of the city. We choose this neighborhood because, it was close the Jeff's work, the schools are really good and it was a good compromise. Jeff wanted to live in the woods and out in the country and I, being a total and utter city girl, wanted to stay close to the city and the mall.
We have a 3 acre wooded lot in a small neighborhood that is about 20 minutes from the mall and other civilization. Most of the people that live here love peace and quiet, don't want to be bothered and are of retirement age.
I have come to the conclusion that our neighbors do not really like us. We have moved in and at the very least disrupted the peace and quiet. They all seem very, very annoyed by us. Here is a list of some things that I think annoy them the most:

-We have toys and other crap all over the front yard. Sometimes I think that we need to put an old car on blocks in the yard and then the look would be complete.

-Since we moved in we have not done any landscaping unless you call all the weeds going out of control in the front yard landscaping.

-We are very loud. Whether inside or out some one is always crying or screaming and it echoes all over the place. I seem to always be yelling at Hayden to come here, stop throwing that or leave the rocks alone.

-Bees have claimed our mailbox as their new home so now no one can get their mail (all the mail boxes are in a central location). I was even stung today and caused a back up at the mail boxes as I ran around screaming to get away from the bees that were attacking me.

-Hayden goes off into the woods to play and is brought back home by the neighbors because he is either to close to their house or they are sure he is going to get lost (they think that I let him out there unsupervised. I am watching just not as closely as some people think I should).

-Hayden likes to play near the end of the driveway, in the ditch near the road. This makes people very nervous and well, I am glad that they are looking out for him, I don't need to be told that he is down there (yes, I actually know where my child is most of the time) and I am pretty darn sure that he will not run in front of cars. In fact, it has been drilled into him to stay on the side of the road and not to play in the road.

Well, that is the current list. There might be more but it has not been brought to my attention yet. For the most part, everyone is very nice. But I do see those disapproving looks and scoffs that I get from time to time. I am sorry neighbors. I am doing the best that I can, so just deal with it.