At 1 year 7 months, Lucas is a handful. He is stubborn, demanding, cheeky, fierce and a bully. Yes he often bullies Gabriel and if i do happen to see it he gets a sound smacking from me. Usually, he likes to push Gabriel or gives a whack on Ganriel`s head when he walks past Gabriel. Mostly Gabriel just cries, but on the rare occassion Gabriel feels the need to retaliate, he will bite or whack Lucas back.
So, yesterday after they were back from school, i gave them each their afternoon snacks and told them to sit at their table. Suddenly, Lucas just gets up and walks over to Gabriel`s side and pours out all the snack from Gabriel`s bowl. I scolded and smacked his hands. THEN, the lil boy had the cheek to do it AGAIN. This time, i took away his snacks and told him to stand in the corner. This is our first time doing the NAughty Corner. He knew i was very angry by now, so while crying he walked over to the corner. Then, while i was talking to Gabe, i looked again, and well, yes he was technically still at the corner, but well, doing a different version of the time out.
I dunno people, i think this guy needs a good explaination on how Time Out is supposed to be done?????
I love islands, beach, sand, sun. My fave place to be and this year during the school Summer Holidays, we headed to beautiful Guam. It`s only a 3.5 hours flight away from Tokyo, so, no surprise, when we reached there the immigration was full packed with Japanese tourists. There was a long queue so by the time we got out of customs it was already 4pm plus and after we got our rental car, we headed off to our hotel.
I booked the Outrigger Guam Resort for us and we weren`t disappointed when we got there. Our hotel was located right smack in the middle of the Guam shopping street and right on the beach. Couldn`t ask for more. And it`s connected to Hard Rock Cafe. Our room as an Ocean View Deluxe room with 2 queen beds and i chose this hotel because it was one of the few that offered a big enough bed for 2 adults and 2 kids without having to roll ontop of one another. Big room, great view.
Coz it was already evening, we didn`t have time to play at the beach or pool, so instead we headed off to dinner and then just rested. Oh yes..the TV shows...oh man how i`ve missed those English reality shows....so much fun.
The beach...what can i say, as pictures will speak for itself. Too beautiful and there`s like probably 400m of shallow clear water to play in and safe for kids because it`s so calm. And that`s why it`s so so family friendly. Gabriel had so much fun playin with both sand & water. Unfortunately his little brother Lucas disagreed on the sand part. Lucas basically refused to touch the sand or have anything to do with it. He wouldn`t put his feet down no matter what and would just scream n scream if i tried to even let him go. So i had to carry him both on land & in the water.
In the following pics, here is Lucas being extra careful neither his hands nor feet touch the sand...notice his hands n feet
And here`s a rare shot of me
Of course, the kiddos had fun fooling around as usual, and on the last night did not allow us to have dinner until they were fully satusfied running around in the lobby. I fell sick by the 4th day and couldn`t care less so long as they didn`t break any valuable stuffs. Of course, being that there were so many Japanese there, we got the frequent `Looks` from them. They probably thought what kind of parents we were letting our kids roam like monkeys.
Here`s Gabe playing with Sand
And here are the rascals jus foolin around
And here they are dancing around like loonies
Ahhh....sorry 2 more photos of ME
It was a funtastic 5 days there and i think I`ll be back next year. It`s too wonderful there not to.
