Daily breakfast

Today is starting off pretty routine, with my daily breakfast at the hotel. I have gotten to know a few of the waitresses/waiters, and every day, they just love staring at Evan, and stroking his cheek. Today, Francesca, my regular waitress, called some of the kitchen staff out of the back room to come and look at Evan. Evan is usually very sleepy at breakfast time, and typically is super calm, but one look at that big chef, with the huge chefs hat on, was all it took to scare little Evan to death. In seeing the chef, Evan's bottom lip immedicately stuck out over his top lip, his chin started quivering, and the rest of his face scrunched up. All the staff laughed, and the poor chef made his way back to the kitchen with his tail between his legs. It was definitely cute.
Francesca knows that I am trying to learn Italian, so each day I try to become more and more conversational with her as I practice new phrases. Her English is very limited, but so far, we have been able to understand eachother, typically in conversation about Evan. Today she taught me that singhiozzo means hiccups (Evan had a case of them this morning), and that calmo describes a calm baby.I wish all words were that easy to remember..i.e, the English word with just an 'o' on the end:)
My breakfast today was eggs, toast, fruit and "due cappuccinos decaffeinato". I usually just have one cappuccino, but today I brought my computer to breakfast, and so I strolled Evan around the hotel lobby, got him to fall asleep looking at the huge xmas tree in the lobby, and went back to the breakfast room for my second coffee, and to update this blog. So far, it's been a great morning.
I don't have much on the agenda today, so I'll likely just take a long walk, and then it will be the eat/change/play routine with Evan until Josh gets home. Evan doesn't sleep much during the day, except for usually the 2 hours I walk for. I can't believe he sleeps through the noise of these streets of Napoli, but I'm glad he does:)
The rest of my week should be a bit busier and I'm looking forward to some social interaction, besides the interaction I get with shopkeepers, waitresses etc. Josh and I are taking Evan to meet his new pediatrician in the morning. She is an Italian doctor, but she has lived in the U.S for several years in the past while doing research for Bethesda Hospital in Maryland. She can recommended by several other expat families, so we look forward to meeting her. After that, Janine, another expat wife over here, will be picking me up to take me to an open air market that is supposed to have a bit of everything at great prices. I've happened upon several other outside markets selling everything from clothes and shoes, to squash and pineapples, all seemingly at very low prices. After the market, we'll be stopping off at her apartment and then headed back to my neighborhood (St. Lucia) for lunch, before she has to pick up her 2nd grader from school at the NATO base.
On Friday, Josh and I are off to the immigration office to submit required paperwork and to register ourselves as living in Italy. I've heard that it will only take about 30 minutes for them to process me through, but Josh could take about 4 hours since he's the one working here.
On Saturday, we'll be meeting up with our real estate agent in Cava to check out some apartmennts there. I hope we find one we like:)