First Sleepover at Uncle Kit and Aunt Heidy's House

Getting ready to head down the hill to North Beach

Will spent the afternoon and evening with Uncle Kit and Auntie Heidy on Saturday. They walked to North Beach along Macondry Lane, where Will pointed out the eucalyptus trees, which he identified by their peeling bark. Auntie Heidy smelled the leaves and confirmed. Once in North Beach, as Uncle Kit said, it was like the song, Who Are The People in Your Neighborhood? They saw a firetruck and the firefighters rang the bell and flashed their lights just for Will. Next came a police officer, who gave will an officer badge sticker. Then next down the pike was a tow truck! It doesn't get much better than this for a 3-year-old.

Unless, that is, you follow it up with a stop at the playground, steamed milk and pizza. After enjoying a steamed milk at Caffe Roma and some time on the swings at Washington Square Park, the threesome were off to Tommaso's Pizza. Will got on the good side of the host, Augustino, by complementing him on his shoes (!) and dinner was a success. After returning home and watching Charlotte's Web, Will slept on Kit and Heidy's guest bed (aka "The Big Bed"). After working up an appetite in the morning adding to Will's collection of paper airplane "fighter jets," Mom and Dad came over for croissants, fresh OJ and eggs the next morning and reflected on the prior day's adventure.

Molto bravo, Uncle Kit and Auntie Heidy! And grazie mille!