Stellan Skarsgård | baby carrier | Ken­sington High Street | Italian restaurant

She checked into a birthing center just down the way from Abbey Road, where the Beatles had offices and a recording studio, and where they were photographed walking across the famous crosswalk for the cover of their album Abbey Road. Bettany, Connelly, and Kai found themselves crossing that famous striped crosswalk again and again. "I was in labor, sort of trying to make things go quicker, walking down Abbey Road, taking a break from the birthing center," she says, laughing at the improbability of it all. "As a huge Beatles fan, I mean, Abbey Road! Pacing, fretting, worrying. But very much entertained in the meanwhile. I'm not sure you're allowed to go into the studio, and we didn't really try. But just seeing that street sign and that sidewalk was quite cool."

The baby was born on August 5, 2003. Within a day, the family was back at what had become their favorite restaurant, an unassuming place whose interior resembles a ship, called the Ark. "It's right off Ken­sington High Street, literally across the street and about five doors down from where we were staying," she says. "It's a really sweet little Italian restaurant, and we used to go, I kid you not, probably three times a week. We used to go so much that when our baby was first born, we went back to the house and Paul had him in one of those slings, a baby carrier, sort of nestled. It was summertime. It was really hot. Paul had no shirt on, and he had the baby in the sling and he was barefoot, and he said, 'I have to go show the guys in the Ark!' I said, 'Honey, you're barefoot!' And he said, 'I know! I know! I'm just going to go down and show them.' And he went down barefoot to show them, because we'd been there so often."

They named their baby Stellan, in honor of Paul's actor friend Stellan Skarsgård. It was the perfect name for an already extremely cosmopolitan kid who had experienced most of London before he was even born.