Our Carrot Crop

We are finally beginning to feel settled in our new house.  (I will try to get pictures on here soon.)  I have been looking for a preschool for Joshua, but it is slim picking around here, so I have decided to do more activities with him at home.  I definitely wouldn't call it homeschooling.  (I really have a problem with homeschooling.)  It is more like fun activities strategically placed into our everyday lives.  We are going to do a letter of the week to work on reading and writing, and we will have a theme to focus on for at least a month at a time.  It will be very organized on my part but very relaxed from Joshua's point of view.  Our first theme is plants, so we planted some plants on our front porch and some carrot seeds.  We are going to plant some cucumber seeds next week.  Hopefully they both grow well enough to eat or the boys are going to be very disappointed.  

Here is Joshua watering his seeds and Benjamin "helping."  That is a frog in the bottom left corner that I stepped on a few minutes earlier.  They are EVERYWHERE along with many other "creatures."

Asan Beach

Yesterday we went to Asan Beach which is the beach where the American soldiers attacked and took Guam back from the Japanese during WWII.  It would have been nice to read some more of the historical signs while we were there, but we spent most o

f the time exploring.  I am sure that we will go back again and eventually read all of the information.

It rains everyday here...sometimes for a few minutes and sometimes all day long.  This is what is usually looks like.  You can see where the rain begins and ends.  Sometimes you can take 2-3 steps and be out of the rain.  It is really strange.

A piece of coral

These pictures of the crabs are for my nephew, Gage.

Pictures Finally!

Well we finally have our computer set up, so I thought that I would send out a few pictures.  

These first four pictures show the Phillipine Sea.  This was the beach by our condo.  Most of Guam is surrounded by reef which makes for very calm and shallow waters.  The water is crystal clear, so you can look straight down and see reef fish and coral.  (The dark areas are coral.)   The white line is the edge of the reef where the waves break, and the dark blue past that is where the ocean floor drops off.  In a lot of places an adult can walk all the way out to the reef, and the water will only reach their waist.  It makes the perfect place for the boys to play in the water.  We have already bought a kayak which we love to use inside the reefs.  I need to get a waterproof camera to take pictures while we are out there.  So far we have seen a lot of different creatures and coral including royal blue starfish and a reef shark.  We haven't been able to take the boat out in a couple of weeks because we are unpacking, but hopefully we can go out again soon.

This isn't a great picture, but it shows our condo on the right.  We stayed there while we were waiting for our house, a little over a month.

The sunset from our condo balcony

A beach on the west side of the island--Pacific Ocean

These next few were taken on the south end of the island near Umatac.

A carabao and a native Chamorro

Just a few funny pictures from the last week.

Benjamin climbed in this box and kept asking for toys.  This was the result.