I think the start of summer is officially here. It’s been the 80s the last few days and the forecast is calling for some 90s next week. I’m a warm weather person, so I always look forward to this time of year.

We have a little birds nest in one of our trees with three baby birds in it. We’ve been checking it every day. I’ve only seen the mommy bird once. Yesterday the boys were having water fights in the yard and the mother bird was very nervous. She kept flying around trying to find a good time to make it into the tree. I made the boys go into the back yard and sure enough, she swooped in several times to feed her babies.

The boys have been enjoying the water gun fights that have become the game of choice in the neighborhood. There is usually at least four boys playing, and sometimes as many as six or seven. Zach seems to have an issue with the water guns…he wants to play, but then gets upset when he gets wet. I’ve tried to explain that getting wet is the whole point of the game. He usually goes into the house crying and changes shirts, then comes back out and everything is fine.

We had our first T-ball practice this weekend. Adam and Zach said they enjoyed it, although Zach made the comment that it was too hot. I’m hoping he’ll get used to it, since our practices are at 11am and go through July. Kansas in the middle of the day is definitely not for the faint of heart. There are 11 boys on the team.

Adam wanted to know how old he had to be to take "soldier lessons." Then he said when he grows up and is a soldier, he’ll take one day off a month to play golf. Scott told him that he can do that if he’s in the Air Force (speaking from experience, I guess!)

Zach is still into tying, hanging and balancing toys, household objects and clothing around the house. I find bottles of lotion hanging by a hairband from the lamps in our room, toys hanging from string that is wrapped around the spindles near our stairs, rubber bands hooking two cabinets together and a stopwatch hanging from the screen door. He also likes to pile up his dirty clothes in a little corner in his room, instead of putting them in his dirty clothes. "Because I might wear them again," he says.

The boys are at preschool while I’m writing this, so the house is quiet and peaceful! We’ve had a few busy weekends with relatives in town and the excitement of losing a first tooth!

Earlier this month, Scott’s parent’s came down for the weekend. Adam had just lost his first tooth, so that was the excitement of the day. He had mentioned to me a few days earlier that his tooth was loose, but I didn’t really think anything of it. Then, I noticed that he had a tooth missing! He doesn’t know what happened to it, so he thought he should write a note to the tooth fairy that said "I lost my tooth. I can't find it." He wanted to make sure he still got a surprise, even thought there was no tooth to show for it. Then Zach decided he wanted to write a note to the tooth fairy too (even though he had not lost any teeth). His note said, "I still have all my teeth in my mouth." He put the note under his pillow and the tooth fairy wrote him back "I’ll keep looking!" Adam got $1 and put it in his piggy bank right away.

Last weekend Mick and Jackie came to visit. The boys were so excited to play with cousins Maggie and Max. We went to the zoo on Saturday morning, then celebrated Mother’s Day on Sunday. The boys picked out a "Superheroes" DVD for me…28 episodes of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the Wonder Twins. I also got two other movies that are more my style.

The weather has warmed up so we’ve been playing outside more and more. We’ve had a few very windy days and lots of storms. We only have a few more weeks left at preschool, and then the boys start their mom’s day out programs at their preschool and at the Y.