Backyard Playing

In Lexington, the neighborhood where we bought our small house was very young. Besides the boy Jeff from our immediate next door, there were quite a number of boys and girls around. Pan-pan did not have much problem to find playmates nearby. There was a big backyard shared by many houses in the area. Our house was on the bottom of a hill, and the shared yard was huge. There were maybe more than ten houses with half at the top of the yard and half at the bottom, and all with their shared backyards in the middle. Some had some small gardens, most were grassy and well maintained weekly by the owners. It was really a heaven for kids, as they could play in the “common” yard. Pan-pan was the center of the attention already at two!