hilton head, sc 2008

the first week of august, the agnew family was officially on vacation as nana was nice enough to invite us to share a house with her and the girls. as i have previously mentioned, it was a 7 1/2 hour trip down to the beach, but i am so thankful that caleb was very content to eat sunchips for at least 6 of those hours. i kid, but he did eat a whole lot that trip...wonder who he learned that from?!? from the moment we got there, caleb was thrilled to be in and around water. he has a really cute inflatable car (complete with a working horn) that he liked to float around the pool in, but after a while, he had to be in the water. tom or i would swim him around the pool and he LOVED it!!! he kicked and squirmed so much that i am convinced he would have been happy for me to let go and let him be free. can't wait until next spring when we can take swim lessons together at the y. i was a little trepidatious about how caleb would react to the ocean, and i was so pleased (and shocked) that he LOVED it. there were numerous times that he would take off running into the water (check out the above pic) and not stop until i grabbed him (he was up to his waist)!!! while on the beach, i learned yet another reason that i love crocs, they keep loose sand off of caleb's feet. for as much as he loved the water, he hated the loose sand. it simply would not do for his feet or hands to be covered in sand. someone, anyone, had to grab a wet wipe and get it off!!! aside from the occasional breakdown over the sand, we enjoyed about 2 hours of beach time a day...pretty good for a couple of palefaces like us :)