who knew?

i found the internet and it's in floyd, va. that's right, floyd. it's about as big as it sounds, but there's free wi-fi at the lodge we're staying at. tom's grandmother passed away and we're in town for her funeral tomorrow. hopefully, tomorrow evening i'll have a much cheerier post.

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 :)

3 years of wedded bliss

on august 6th, tom and i celebrated our third wedding anniversary. for those of you trying to do the math, we were married for 8 months before we found out that we were having caleb...i know how some of you think. since we were in hilton head, sc and nana volunteered to babysit (thank you nana!!!), we decided to go to savannah, ga for the afternoon. and i had the brilliant idea to take a trolley tour of the town. did i mention that it was august...in deep southern georgia??? yeah, i sweated profusely for an hour and a half...was not a pretty picture. however, we did manage to have a great time. savannah was a beautiful city, no matter the temperature. while in savannah, we rubbed elbows with the local celebrities...ha! we went by the famous (or in some people's minds infamous) lady & sons resturant at 4:30 p.m. and the wait time for a table that evening was a whopping 5 hours! love me some paula deen, but her fried chicken can't be that good! it may be a little late, but i just wanted to shout a BIG i love you to tom. you're the best man that i know and i'm glad that you're mine!

looooong break....again

i'll have to make this post quick b/c i'm at panera, tom wants the computer back (since when does "our" translate into "mine"), and caleb is about done with his "nak" (snack). we got back from the beach and guess what??? stilll no internet at the house...go figure. a few fast facts, tom and i celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary on august 6th (awwwwwww) and i attended my 10 year high school reunion (go hornets!). hopefully, i'll get to do a full-fledged post one day soon, complete with pictures. hey, a girl can dream. until then, i'll miss you internet....sigh...

caleb at 19 months

caleb turns 19 months old on wednesday, so i thought that i'd share a few of his favorite things. he is still fascinated with his crocs, especially since his nana bought him 2 jibits to put in them. he has a dump truck and an excavator--nana can find the best things--and is busying himself trying to figure out how to put them on/take them off. he also loooooooooooooves the water. we were a little worried that he may not like the ocean, a perfectly reasonable fear if you are only 31" tall and weigh a whopping 22 lbs., but he loved it...at least for the first 30 minutes. i think he just got too hot and too overwhelmed. however, he can spend almost 2 hours in a pool before he (and i) gets tired. he has a few new tricks in his vocabulary this month. he really enjoys the long "e" sound and will add it to just about everything: momeeeee, dadeeee, naneeee (we think it's nana, but we're still not sure), jakeeeeeee (jack). he's also become much better at pronouncing his "s" and "th" sounds so that bus and bath are discernable to everyone. and i am most proud of the fact that he will repeat thank you when i ask him to. it's so cute to hear "tan ouuuuuu" after i hand him more crackers. this week, caleb has been more adventurous in his diet. yesterday he ate soy sausage, bacon, and grilled chicken...all in the same day!!!! i'm still not convinced that bacon and chicken will be permanent additions, but it was nice to see him branch out a little. as far as discipline goes, it's all typical toddler stuff. he will protest, quite loudly, when he has to quit an activity before he wants to, or gets told "no." i will quickly remove him from the situation, or smack the little hand if need be, to end the protest. he also has the wonderful habit of smacking at things and people (namely mommy, daddy, and jack) when he is frustrated. however, it only takes a stern "no hitting!" and time out in the crib for caleb to decide not to smack anymore...at least for that day. all in all, he's a readily compliant child with a normal amount of defiant outbursts. and given his gene pool, that's a blessing!!!

road trip **now with pictures**

so how does an almost 19 month old keep busy on a 7 1/2 hour drive from nashville to hilton head??? glad you asked...since the portable dvd player wouldn't load any of the discs, i reached into my mary poppins inspired bag and found 2 strands of beads, a purse-sized lint roller, plastic spoons, a singing frog, coloring book, colored pencils, 2 lift-the-flap books from the target dollar bins (yay!), a calculator (shhhh, caleb thinks it's a cell phone), 2 tonka trucks, a travel size maga doodle, bubbles, a pinwheel, and a partridge in a pear tree--whew!!! if you currently do not have a toddler, or it's been a couple of years, the contents may sound strange, but trust me, those $2 strands of beads that i bought off of a street vendor at a ut football game have paid for themselves a thousand times over. they completely fulfill caleb's need to put on/take off/do-it-myself...they were good for at least 30 mins. of content riding. i took a couple of cute pics of caleb in the truck (think sticking plastic spoon in the holes of his crocs), but left the usb cable to my camera at home. i know that you're thinking, "WHY DIDN'T SHE JUST PUT IT IN THAT STUPID BAG OF HERS?!?", but when you're trying to out think a 19 month old sometimes you just forget the obvious...now if i could only find my other blue flipflop...

still here and kickin'

it's been a loooooooooooong time since i've been on the internet, let alone made a blog entry. in the past 2 1/2 weeks we have been to x-fuge in panama city beach, florida, moved into a new house, and are currently in hilton head, sc for a much needed vacation. hopefully this week i will be able to catch up on entries. oh internet, how i have missed you!!!