The weather was nice, and the boys looked forward to joining the neighborhood kids on Saturday night to play.  Stuart and I had hardly seen them eating their dinner so quickly, and by 7pm, we let the boys out to go down a few houses and ring their friend’s door.  Luke came out to play four squares with them and later another boy joined in.  Probably by 7:30pm, some older kids started coming out; we also saw a couple of kids riding their bikes in and a few being dropped off by cars.  Logan by then came back to hand me the ball and gloves, and he was so thrilled to share that the group would be playing “Kick the can”, “Shark and minnows” and “Capture the flags” soon.  The neighbors had put out some flashing lights to alert if any traffic and there were so older kids, so Stuart and I were ok letting our boys stay out, but we were also outside keeping an eye on them as well.  The kids were all running around having fun; I could hear our boys’ names being called and being part of the games.  By 8:50pm, it took Stuart awhile to find a good break between games to get the boys back in for the night.  Connor was hoping that they could stay out longer, so we had to remind him that the two of them being the youngest would have to be first to go to bed.  The boys certainly had a great time; they were so excited, interrupting each other, to tell us about the games they played.