This next little story is based on my recent trip to Ft. Myers, Florida. In this one, Yugi is a year and a half hold, so he's at the age where he's learned how to walk but is still not very good at it and he still speaks 'baby talk' too. So, that should get everyone up to speed for this one. Here ya go, enjoy!

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"How did I let you talk me into this? Atem Moto asked his wife, Kiara as they now entered the sixth hour of their eighteen hour drive to Fort Myers Beach, Florida.

"Because you wanted to go on vacation, and I suggested Florida." Atem rolled his eyes.

"But why to a no-where place like Ft. Myers? Why not someplace cool like Miami or Orlando?"

"Because my father is the president of the Mariner's Boat House, which is where we're staying and because of that, we get a discount for staying there; now I don't want to hear another word about it!"

"But"---

"Ah, ah!" Kiara raised a finger at her husband.

"But"---

"Ah!" Atem sighed.

"You know, you better cut that out or you're going to wake up the squirt back there." Kiara looked in the back seat with awe-filled eyes. Behind the driver's seat was a small car-seat with a small one-and-a-half-year-old in it. His name was Yugi, and he looked just like his parents. He had his mother's gentle amethyst eyes and his father's tri-colored hair, but Yugi still only had a head full of fuzz then real hair. The baby had his head tilted to the side, sleeping a dream-filled sleep. Some drool had rolled its way down his cheek, which made him even more adorable then he naturally was. Kiara blew a kiss to her baby boy and smiled.

"This trip is really tiring him out, don't you think?" Atem smiled and nodded in agreement. They had bought a portable DVD player so that Yugi could watch some Sesame Street and some other preschool shows. Yugi did not pay attention to what they were teaching; he just loved the music that they played. He loved music very much. However, the longer the car ride went on, the sleepier Yugi became. Long car rides always rocked him to sleep.

"I may be joining him in a few minutes." Atem replied, eyes drooping a bit. Kiara playfully nudged him.

"You've only been driving for one hour." Atem shrugged.

They had moved through Kentucky and Tennessee pretty quickly thanks to Atem's speeding, but Georgia nearly got on their nerves. They were going diagonal southward through the state, which took a good portion of the day. Yugi and Kiara slept through most of Georgia, but Kiara awoke sometime after Atem hit Florida. The young mother stretched and yawned at the same time.

"Good morning, Atem."

"Mmm …" She heard him grunt. Kiara looked to her husband and saw the deep bags under his eyes from staying up all night. His giant canteen of coffee kept him wide awake all through the night, but now it was starting to wear off.

"Atem, do you want to pull over and have me drive?" Atem waved his hand.

"No, we'll do breakfast first and then we'll switch." Kiara knew he was only cranky due to his lack of sleep. So she agreed with him. They pulled up to a nice looking restaurant. Atem got out and volunteered to wake Yugi up.

"Yugi, come on; wake up, Baby." Feeling the light shaking, Yugi was instantly woken up. The small boy yawned and stretched, rubbing his eyes with his fist at the same time. Atem laughed at this cute little antic. "Did you have a good sleep, Squirt?"

"Yah." The small voice said. Yugi still could only speak a few words, and the words that he was trying to learn, he put them in two-syllable baby words. Atem picked him up and went to go catch up with Kiara.

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The inside of the restaurant was very fancy and Atem nearly choked. He knew that everything on the menu was going to be very expensive. Kiara groaned at that cheap look in Atem's eyes.

"Oh, stop; I'd rather pay extra for a good meal then get rotten food!"

"But … did you see these prices?!"

"Atem, stop being so cheap all the time!" Atem glared at his wife.

"I prefer the term 'smart consumer'." Kiara exhaled loudly.

"And I call it being cheap!" As Yugi's parents continued to fight, his adorably large amethyst eyes caught sight of a waitress carrying a plate that contained a stack of five fluffy pancakes. Yugi smiled and made an amused squealing sound when he spotted them. He followed the waitress with the plate, wanting that delicious, non-nutritional syrupy breakfast. The baby had not been walking for very long, so his tiny legs were a little wobbly and he took small, slow steps. The waitress set the stack of five pancakes down in front of a man reading a newspaper.

"Thank you." He said.

"You're welcome, Sir. She replied before walking away. The man folded his newspaper and was about to spread the butter on his pancakes when he realized that one of them was missing.

"What the Devil?!" He looked down to the floor when he heard a munching sound and saw Yugi eating a pancake, holding it in both hands. Yugi looked at him with soft, innocent eyes. The man just laughed, thinking this was the cutest sight he had ever seen. Yugi cocked his head when the man began to laugh at him and just took another bite of the pancake. "You know, I think that would taste better with syrup." Yugi did not answer, he just took another bite.

"YUGI!" Yugi turned when he heard both of his parents calling his name. He looked at them with his cheek puffed out since they were full of pancake. Kiara picked Yugi up, who still had the pancake in his hand. She planted kisses all over his face.

"Yugi, don't you ever run away from Mommy like that ever again!" Yugi mumbled something, but his mouth was still so full of pancake that no one could understand him. Atem looked at the man with an apologetic look.

"I am very sorry for this; here, I'll pay you the amount of what he ate." The man held up his hand and shook his head,

"Nonsense; I thought it was rather cute. He reminds me of my grandson; plus, he saved me from getting more calories then I need." He laughed at his own stupid joke. Atem was very grateful that this man had a sense of humor.

After that mess was cleared up, Kiara, Atem and their son sat at a small table that was made for two people and took a high-chair for Yugi. It was obvious that the boy wanted pancakes, so that was what his mother ordered for him. Atem ordered just a small bowl of oatmeal so that he could save some money, and Kiara ordered a ham and cheese omelet for herself. Yugi began to babble with himself as he played with the straw that came in Atem's soda.

"Agooda, gooda, gooda, gooda …" Baby talk was still his main language, but he was learning more and more words each day. Atem and Kiara usually spoke to him when he would go back to his baby language.

"Is that so, Yugi? How do you feel about that?" Atem asked with a smile on his face. Yugi smiled back and babbled again.

"Gooda gobba gee!" He was beginning to become a little loud, so Kiara began to shush him. Finally, their breakfasts came. Kiara cut up Yugi's pancakes into small pieces so that the baby could fit them into his mouth. Once Yugi had his breakfast, he used both hands to pick up a lot of pieces and began to stuff them into his mouth.

"Baby, that's not the right way to eat; you're going to make yourself sick!" Kiara said with that motherly tone clear in her voice.

"Oh, let him eat the way he wants, Kiara; we'll have plenty of time to teach him some etiquette as he grows up." Kiara did not listen. She took a napkin and wiped the syrup off of Yugi's hands and around his mouth.

"Well, I want him to learn manners as soon as possible. The quicker he learns them, the more he'll use them." Atem shrugged. When it came to Kiara's mothering methods, there was no point in arguing. He just decided to finish his own breakfast and wait for his family to finish theirs. Yugi only ate a few pieces of pancakes. It seemed that the one he 'stole' had filled him up. He gave his mother a helpless look, telling her that he was full. "Are you full, Baby? Okay, but Mommy still has to finish her breakfast." Yugi just wiped his mouth with his arm.

"Pee!" Atem looked up.

"Did you say you have to pee?" Yugi clapped his tiny hands.

"Pee!" Kiara had a disgusted look on her face.

"No, Atem; I think he's telling us that he did pee …" Atem slapped his face with his hand. They had been in the process of trying to potty-train their son, but he kept having accidents.

"I'll go change his diaper." Atem took his son, along with the diaper bag, and headed out of the restaurant to their Ford Escape so that he could change Yugi's diaper in peace. While the father and son completed that little adventure, Kiara was finally finished with her breakfast. Atem paid the waitress and went to go put Yugi back in his car seat.

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As the trip continued through the state of Florida, more and more bugs began hitting the windshield. Every time one of them would, Kiara would always try to wash them off, but then ten more bugs would hit it again. Atem was lying in the back seat with his head next to Yugi's car seat. He was snoring quite loudly; Kiara just tuned it out by playing anything she could find on the radio.

Yugi stared at his father as he continued to sleep. Daddy made such loud noises when he slept. The baby boy giggled at Atem's snoring. He had kept his mouth open the whole time. Some snores were louder then others. Looking around, Yugi saw a blue ballpoint pen on the seat and picked it up. He curiously opened it and began to draw on Atem's forehead. Kiara was paying too much attention to the road so she was not able to see Yugi's creativity at work. Atem was such a deep sleeper that he did not even wince when Yugi began to scribble a bit harder on his head. Soon, Atem's whole forehead was covered in ink and Yugi worked his way down to Atem's cheeks and pointy nose. The baby giggled as he continued his artwork.

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It was not long until they reached the beach resort. The sudden stop was enough to wake Atem up. Yugi kept himself busy by playing with the pen, some of the ink getting all over his hands. When Atem saw his son playing with the pen, he immediately took it away, which caused Yugi to whine.

"Ehhh!"

"What are you doing with this? This is my lucky pen!" Yugi screamed very loudly, clearly wanting his toy back. Atem waved his finger in front of his son, showing his authority. "You stop that screaming this instant, young man!"

"Ehhh!" Yugi continued to whine. The door suddenly opened and Kiara began to unbuckle Yugi's car seat.

"Enough out of the both of you; this is a vacation and --- ahh!" She could not believe the mess of ink that was all over Atem's face. It was very hard for her not to laugh at this particular moment. Atem raised a brow at his wife's sudden outburst.

"Kiara, what's wrong?" Said woman put a hand over her mouth and began to chuckle without answering her husband's question. "May I ask what's so funny?" It took a moment for Kiara to respond because she was still laughing.

"Honey, have you had a look in the mirror lately?" The confused look on Atem's face seemed to grow.

"… No."

"Then you might want to." Atem was curious as to why Kiara was laughing at him, so he decided to crawl up between the drivers' seat and the passengers' seat to see himself in the rearview mirror. When he did, he let out an ear piercing scream.

"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!?!?!" Kiara did not answer him, she just continued to laugh. Yugi, hearing his mother laugh, followed her example. When Atem heard his son's small giggle, he turned to the baby. "You did this to me, didn't you?" Yugi clapped his hands as if cheering himself for his 'masterpiece'. As much as Atem wanted to be mad, he could not find it in himself to be because of the fact that Yugi's curiosity was just too cute sometimes. He must have been curious as to how Daddy would look in blue. "Well, since you're the artist here, you're going to help me wash it off. Atem picked Yugi up and put him on the ground. Both Kiara and Atem began to unload some of the luggage. Kiara took Yugi's things while Atem took a bag of snacks they had brought along for the ride.

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There were three floors of condos at the resort and then the ground floor. The elevator ride to the first floor was a little embarrassing for Atem; the people that rode with them began to make fun of the scribbling on his face. After getting the room key, Kiara set up Yugi's playpen and let him play with his toys while Atem unloaded the rest of the luggage.

"Okay, I think we're all done; I'm going to go to the store to get some groceries that we'll need for the week. Why don't you take Yugi down to the beach so that he can get his feet wet?"

"Fine, but only after I wash all this crap off of my face." After Atem was able to get at least most of the ink off of his face, h slipped into his swimming trunks and rubbed sun block all over his arms, legs, torso and face. Being of Egyptian decent, he was naturally tan, so there was no point in getting an even deeper one. Yugi, however, took his mother's pale skin color; and since his skin was very sensitive, Kiara went overboard and bought the best sun block she could find for babies. After Atem was finished putting sun block on himself, he put Yugi in one of those "Little Swimmers'" diapers, the ones that were water-proof, then he put Yugi in the tiny life-jacket, that he had bought, and topped it all off with a small hat; the hat made Yugi look like he was about to go on a safari. "There you go, Son; all ready to go to the beach." Yugi looked up at his father with questioning eyes. He had no idea what the beach was or why he had to wear this hat. Atem chuckled. "Sorry about the hat; it was your mother's idea," He picked Yugi up and gave him a kiss on the cheek, "she's crazy."

"Agooda, gooda, gooda, gooda …" Obviously, the baby was not listening.

It was not too long before the Moto men reached the beach. There was a small lagoon behind the resort that they were staying at.

"Ahhhhh …." Yugi gurgled as he gazed out into the lagoon. The lagoon was surrounded by a few sandbars, but if one were to walk over to the other side of those sand bars, they would see the actual Gulf of Mexico. Atem gave Yugi another kiss on the cheek.

"Isn't it beautiful, Yugi?"

"Bufll …" He tried to repeat. Atem chuckled again and walked up to the lagoon, placing Yugi down in the sand once he reached the water. Baby Yugi had never felt sand before; it was very squishy between his toes. He looked up at his father with a look in his eyes that seemed to ask, 'now what do I do?' "It's alright, Baby; you can play in the water if you like." At hearing the word 'play', Yugi's eyes immediately sparkled. He squealed loudly and began to splash about in the shallow water. Atem watched his son enjoy his first time at the beach. A nice, cool breeze blew into his face. He enjoyed it. Yugi sounded as if he was enjoying the water. He waddled through it for a few more minutes. Atem sat on the sand and continued to listen to his son's happy squealing and relaxing in the pleasant breeze. As he looked at the baby in the water, he saw Yugi making handprints in the squishy sand. Of course, his hands were all dirty, but the water from the lagoon washed it away.

Looking to his right, Atem saw a good-sized swing set that was set up in the drier parts of the sand. "Yugi, do you want to swing?" Yugi stood up, with his hands covered in sand, and at hearing the word 'swing', his eyes lit up as he smiled and began waddling over to Atem. Yugi loved to swing; swinging was one of his favorite things to do. Atem placed Yugi in the baby swing and began to softly push him. Yugi giggled. He just loved to swing!

"Weee!" He yelled

"Having fun, Little One?" Yugi giggled loudly.

"Up, up!" Yugi had not yet learned the word 'higher', so he used the word he did know how to say.

"You want to go higher? Alright, but just a little bit." He pushed a bit more and Yugi did go higher. He simply loved it. The cool ocean breeze added to the moment and made it very relaxing for the young father. He continued to push Yugi in the swing for a few more minutes until he grew rather tired of that and picked Yugi up. "Now we're going to go walk on the beach." Atem said. Yugi wanted down, but Atem refused because he started to walk right through the lagoon. Soon, the water came up to his waist and began to slow him down. His arms were getting a little tired so he sat Yugi down on his shoulders, that way he could still walk across the lagoon and give his arms a rest at the same time. Yugi liked it when he sat on Daddy's shoulders. It made him feel tall and he could see almost everything. He squealed and giggled, patting his palms on Atem's head. "Oww, oww, Yugi – oww – stop it – oww!" Yugi did as he was told, but giggled nonetheless.

It did not take long for the Moto men to make it to the sandbars. Atem placed Yugi down on the sand and the little boy began to waddle over to where he heard the waves. Atem walked after him, allowing Yugi to explore so long as he could see him. Yugi simply loved it when the waves ran over his feet, cooling them from the hot sand.

"Wet!" He yelled out. Atem chuckled.

"You like getting wet?" Yugi began to splash around in the water again when a rather large wave, well larger then him, splashed all over him, causing the small child to cry in surprise. Atem rushed over to Yugi and picked him up, trying to comfort the scared baby. "Shh … it's alright, Baby, it was just a little bit of water; it can't hurt you." Yugi continued to cry as he buried his face in his father's chest. "Shh … it's alright, don't worry." The crying soon diminished, but Yugi was a little too afraid to get back in the water. Atem had a bit of a water phobia and he did not want to pass that on to his son, so he did everything he could in order to get Yugi through this little fear of his. "Please don't be scared." He put Yugi down in the sand, but Yugi gripped onto his father's swimming trunks.

"Eeehh!" He whined, jumping up and down. He desperately wanted Daddy to pick him up again.

"No, Yugi; you need to get used to the water again," He looked out into the Gulf waters and saw the people out in the deeper parts, having fun. He gulped as he did, "even if I never did …" Yugi was a bit hesitate to go back in the water after that wave hit him, but he decided to give it another chance. He picked up his tiny foot and carefully placed it in the water, cringing as he did so. As a small wave came and washed his little foot, nothing bad happened. Opening his eyes, Yugi smiled and decided that he liked the water again. For this, Atem was very grateful. Not being able to swim was one of the few things he was ashamed of.

The two of them stayed out there for the next three hours, just enough time for Kiara to finish shopping and put them where they belonged. While she was putting the last few groceries in the refrigerator, she heard the door opening and a happily squealing Yugi close behind.

"Hey, we're back!" Kiara looked up to see Yugi sitting on Atem's shoulders.

"How was it?"

"It was wonderful, wasn't it, Yugi?" Atem asked, putting the baby on the floor. Yugi waddled up to his mother.

"Yah!" Kiara picked him up and gave him a big kiss on the cheek, which was a mistake in her eyes because Yugi cringed and pushed her away.

"Atem?"

"Yes?" Atem responded while he was taking one of the bags to the bedroom.

"Did you put sun block on Yugi's face?" The young father stopped in his tracks; Yugi's face was the one place he forgot to put sun block on.

"Uh … of course I did," He gave a nervous chuckle, "what kind of father do you think I am?" Kiara walked into the bedroom with Yugi in his arms.

"Then why are his cheeks red, and why does he push me away whenever I give him a kiss?" It took Atem a while to come up with an excuse.

"Well … look at it this way: the deep redness is a good change from his regular pink skin …"

"Oh, Atem!"

"What?! So I missed one spot! At least the rest of him is still pink!"

"His face is the most sensitive part of him! Now he has a sun burn and he won't be able to smile …" Atem looked at his wife as if she were off of her nut.

"What are you talking about?! It's just a small sunburn! Of course he'll still be able to smile!" Atem tried to prove his point by tickling Yugi, making the small child giggle. "See?" Kiara continued to glare at her husband while she also continued to coddle her son.

"Yes, but did you also see that pained expression?!" Atem's left eye began to twitch. Sometimes there was just no point in arguing with his wife.

"Kiara, I've held my tongue about the little ticks you have while mothering our son, but this is just is the weirdest you've ever been!" He walked over to one of the bags and took out a bottle of sunburn soothing gel. "All you have to do is put some of this on his cheeks and he'll be fine." The young father tended to his baby's small sunburn. Yugi made a tiny relieved sound at feeling the cooling gel. "See, all better." Kiara put the baby down on the floor and he crawled towards his toys and began playing. The young mother stretched.

"I think I'll take him down to the pool with me."

"What, are you kidding?!"

"What?" Atem slapped his own face with his hand.

"After all the crap you just gave me about his sunburn, you want to make it even worse?!" Kiara smiled and gently leaned in to kiss Atem on the lips; that always quickly shut him up. She smirked as she pulled away.

"I'll be the one putting the sun block on him; that way I know that it's been done right." She seductively went into the room and began to change into her bathing suit. Atem was still in a bit of shock … what had just happened here? First she was yelling at him, then she was kissing him … three years of marriage and he still had not caught onto her tactic of making him drop a subject just with a kiss.

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Down at the pool, Kiara was laying on a beach chair, wearing a navy blue bikini and one of Atem's larger t-shirts to cover her up from the sun. The small children's pool was just enough for Yugi to play in. There were no mean waves trying to eat his face. He played with some of the beach toys that his parents had bought him and then a few beach balls as well; all of different colors and sizes. He was the only one in that tiny pool so he had it all to himself. As overprotective as Kiara was, she did not want him going in that pool without the life jacket on. Yugi squealed as he began to splash around in the very shallow water. Kiara smiled and continued to watch him though her expensive sunglasses.

"Having fun, Baby?" Yugi's only response was more squealing and splashing about in the pool. She laughed at his excitement. To make up for Atem's mistake, Kiara used practically the whole bottle of sun block on Yugi's face and shoulders.

"Ma-ma …"

"What's the matter, Sweetheart?" Yugi crawled out of the small pool and slowly waddled over towards his mother. Kiara sat up, thinking that there was something wrong, but all Yugi did was hold up his tiny arms.

"Up." Kiara simply could not resist. She picked the baby up and he snuggled into her chest, yawing as he began to suck on his left thumb. Kiara gave him a small kiss on the head and began to rub his back. Just then, Atem came down, wearing his swimming trunks and flip flops, carrying a nice juicy, raw stake.

"Hey, mind if we have this for dinner tonight? I haven't had meat in two days." Kiara just shrugged and continued to bathe in the sun, holding Yugi while the baby took a small nap. Atem took that as a yes and went over to one of the provided gas grills and began to bar-b-que the stake. Atem was a big meat eater, but Kiara was a bit of a vegetarian; the closest substance she would eat that was even close to meat would be fish, and Yugi did not have enough teeth to eat solid meat such as a London broil stake, so he knew he would be the only one eating it.

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When Atem's stake was done bar-b-quing, he and his wife went back up to the condo they had paid for. Kiara carried Yugi up to the condo since he was still sound asleep. All that playing in the water had really tired that tiny baby out. She took off his life jacket and hat and tucked him into the playpen. She smiled when she saw that he was still sucking his thumb. Both parents smiled, looking at their happy baby boy.

"He's going to wake up during the night, you know." Kiara said. Atem scoffed.

"What a way to ruin a moment, Kiara." Said woman smiled and ran her foot up the back of Atem's leg. His eye widened at the sudden feeling. Kiara leaned in and literally pulled Atem's face down so that she could kiss him.

"You know, if we're really quiet, we can have some fun before he wakes up." A sinister smile ran its way through Atem's lips as he picked his wife up, bridal style and they headed toward the bedroom.

Later in the night, Yugi did wake up. He woke up to being in his playpen rather then his crib. As he looked around, he could see that the TV was on, but Mommy and Daddy were nowhere to be found.

"Ma-ma?" He asked. Picking himself up, he found his way out of his playpen and waddled around the condo. "Da-ddy?" The way he pronounced 'daddy' sounded as if he had hyphenated the word. Where were Mommy and Daddy? He was hungry, for crying out loud! He heard something bump against the wall of the bedroom, so Yugi walked in there, thinking his parents were in it; and to his fright, they were … What were they doing … wrestling? Apparently, Mommy was winning. Yugi cocked his head to the side and blinked in confusion. He let out a tiny sneeze, which caught the attention of Mommy and Daddy. Both stopped in their tracks. Kiara gasped.

"Ahh, Yugi!" With a blanket wrapped around her, she stood up and put on a robe. Atem sat up on the bed.

"Hey, Squirt? What's the matter?" It was a good thing Yugi was so young, or he would have truly been traumatized. He just answered his father's question by pointing to his mouth.

"Foo." Kiara came back in wearing a thin silk robe.

"You're hungry, Baby?" Yugi nodded and rubbed his eyes, signaling that he was still very tired as well. Both parents were very glad that their baby boy was not paying attention to their actions.

"We have to get a better playpen." Atem commented.

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A few days passed. It took the Moto family a little while to get settled into their home for the week, but eventually they began to relax. Atem took Yugi to a place with a lot of souvenir shops called the Boardwalk. Yugi saw so many different items in those stores, and wanted to touch all of them, but Daddy told Yugi that he was not allowed to touch anything. Since Kiara's birthday was in two days, they were going to go out to dinner, but Atem figured that this trip was not enough of a present, so he bought a few souvenirs for Yugi to give her for her birthday. In the corner of his eye, Atem spotted a small sand castle sculpture. When he picked it up, he could tell that it was made out of actual sand. All the edges were perfectly sculpted from the sand. It sparkled a bit as well. Around the bottom, there was a banner that read: 'I had a blast at Ft. Myers, FL'. Atem laughed as he held it up in front of his son.

"What do you think, Yugi? Think you can give this to your mother?" Yugi blinked a few times before trying to touch it, but Atem quickly pulled it away, afraid that Yugi would break it. "Can you say 'sand castle'?"

"Ca-da can." Atem laughed.

"That was no where near 'sand castle'. Yugi giggled too and clapped his hands. The only reason he laughed was because he heard his father laugh. "Are you laughing at me laughing?"

"Yah!"

"I thought so." He went to go check out. After a few more hours of shopping, and buying Yugi a small Ft. Myers t-shirt, both went back to the condo to get ready to go out to dinner.

"We're home!" Atem put Yugi down and the baby slowly waddled into his mother's arms.

"Aww, there's my baby; come to Mommy."

"Alright." Atem said. He went up to Kiara and gave her a kiss on the cheek. She smiled and looked at Yugi, who smiled back.

"And what about the little baby?" Yugi gave her a small hug and placed his lips to her cheek. "Oh, thank you, Sweetheart." Yugi squealed, happy at the fact that he could make his mother happy.

"Hey, the kid needs a bath before we take him out in public." Atem announced.

"Well so do you, so you take the shower near the bedroom and I'll give Yugi a bath in the tub." Atem agreed. The small bathroom near the front door and bedroom had a standup shower; he figured it was the best situation so that both could bathe.

Yugi loved taking baths. He loved being able to play with his toys in nice warm water. Kiara did not fill up the tub very far since he was still very small for his young age. Yugi took a small ball and began to gnaw on it. Kiara took a bottle of baby shampoo and used a dollop of it on her son's head full of fuzz. To rinse, she held a washcloth to Yugi's face and poured a cup of water over his head to get rid of the shampoo. This way, it would not burn his eyes. After that, she used the same washcloth to wash his body. Finally, the bath was done. Kiara wrapped her baby in a fluffy towel that was bigger then he was and carried him to the room so that she could dress him in some of the new clothes that she had bought him. She chose a nice t-shirt and small cargo shorts with baby sandals. With her son finished, she placed him in the living room and turned on the TV for him to watch. Kiara then went back to the bathroom near the bedroom and pounded on the door.

"Are you done yet?"

"Just a second, I'm blow drying." Kiara exhaled loudly; that would take forever.

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The restaurant was a very nice place. Although Atem could take only so much of seafood, he did find something on the menu that he liked. Yugi was given a small kids' menu meal; a fish sandwich with fries. Atem suddenly placed a present on the table, which caught Kiara by surprise.

"What, did you think this dinner was all you were getting for your birthday?" Kiara smiled and blushed.

"Well, considering the price, the thought did run through my mind." Atem rolled his eyes as his wife reached for the gift. She was about to open it when a small voice caught her attention.

"Ma-ma …" Both parents looked over at their son. He reached out his arms. Once again, Kiara could not resist. She picked him up and sat him on her lap.

"Oh, this one's from Yugi." Hearing his name, Yugi looked up and smiled. Kiara tore an edge of the wrapping paper, but Yugi decided to help her and finished unwrapping the gift. Atem did his best to hold back his laughter but was not very successful. "Uh … thank you, Baby." She looked at the sand castle sculpture. "Oh, honey, it's beautiful." She bent down and gave Yugi a kiss on the head, but he was too busy playing with the holographic wrapping paper. Kiara blew a kiss to Atem, not wanting to squish the baby in her lap. "And thank you, Atem."

"Don't thank me until you open my gift." Kiara reached for the smaller box and opened it. When she did, she found the most beautiful diamond earrings she had ever seen. She gasped as she saw that they were actually diamond instead of the regular cubic zirconium she normally received.

"Oh, Atem … they're beautiful!" Atem smiled, seeing her face light up. Yugi looked up. He cocked his head and blinked a few times, wondering why Mommy sounded so funny.

"So, do you like them?" Atem asked.

"Are you kidding? I love them!" She attempted to lean over and kiss him, but then remembered the baby in her lap. Atem just shrugged and ordered the biggest ice cream sundae that the restaurant had to offer. It was meant to be fore Kiara, but as soon as it arrived, Yugi dug into it.

"Yugi, that was for your mother!" Yugi looked up at his father, blinking with ice cream all over his face.

"Mine!" He yelled. Both parents looked at each other and laughed.

"Happy birthday, Dear." Kiara smiled with love in her eyes.

"Thank you."

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The rest of the trip went rather smoothly. They went to see a movie in a theater that served dinner along with it. The next day, they spent the entire day on the beach. It wore Yugi out quite a bit, and after a few more days of it, his parents could tell that he was ready to go home. On the final day, Atem was packing up the car while Kiara looked at the Boat House, holding Yugi.

"Well, Baby, it may be a while until we're able to come back. Did you have fun?" Yugi looked at the Boat House with his thumb in his mouth. Kiara kissed him.

"Are you two ready to go?" Atem asked. Kiara nodded. She buckled Yugi into his car seat and then they hit the road. Yugi looked back at the strange blue house and smiled. He probably would not be able to remember his first vacation, but the knowledge of the fact that he had so much fun would always stay with him.