oh, baby!

i went to the doctor last friday for my 11 1/2 week checkup. nothing too eventful...i peed in the cup and got to hear the baby's heart beat. it was in the 160's and i have gained 0 pounds!!! hard to believe, but the scales don't lie...or let's at least hope that they don't. next check is friday, november 7th...which will probably be the next time i get online :)

guess what...

when i named our blog, i purposely left out a number between those and little agnews, b/c i knew that one day our family would grow. well, that day has come, or it will april 25th!!! caleb has officially graduated to "big brother" status and we're positive that he'll handle that role beautifully. i'm officially 8 1/2 weeks pregnant with no sickness...yay! and yes, for those with inquiring minds, we will be finding out the gender. i'm way too nosey not to! caleb and baby agnew #2 will be 27 months apart in age. oddly enough, so are tom and his brother...totally not planned, but still a cool coincidence. the sonogram picture is not the best, but if you look to left of the flash blur, you'll see baby agnew #2. we got to see his/her heartbeat...so sweet! caleb doing his best impression of mommy being pregnant. looking at his expression, i'd say i would have to be 9 1/2 months pregnant and just ate a lemon...ha!

caleb at 20 months

trying on winter clothes. caleb really liked the pjs with the "shoes." the lack of posting has reached a new low as caleb is almost 21 months old and i'm just now getting around to writing about his 20th month. alas, good things must come to those who have to wait b/c there's no internet in the house. this month has been both the same and different for mr. caleb. he still eats pretty much the same things day after day, but has decided to branch out just a little bit...into the land of bacon!!! he rarely gets it at home, mainly at gran & nana's houses, but when we do have it, i have to stop him after 2 pieces--i can just hear his cholesterol getting higher. i'm convinced that any male i'm related to can easily eat a whole pound of bacon and caleb probably won't be an exception. he's also decided that he likes baked potatoes, macaroni & cheese, and a certain brand of rice that is really more like a rissoto. good thing as he's still a skinny little fella. for those who care, it's all organic...just sayin' showing you his muscles :) he's developed a few more tricks. he really likes to close the door to our bedroom, wait for one of use to come open it, and run and hide in his room, or behind the closet door. he thinks he is so clever. he also likes to line up at the end of the hall, or against a wall, and take off running after you say "go!" it's hilarious to watch him run. also high on the cuteness scale is when caleb is sitting in the floor, says our name, and pats the space next to him for us to sit. it's irresistible. and sometimes, just for kicks and giggles, he'll walk around backwards or on his tiptoes. driving the jeep caleb understands everything and likes to have little jobs to do. he can put dirty clothes in the laundry, get diapers for his diaper bag, bibs for lunch, throw things in the garbage can, and put the pillows on the bed after i make it. pretty impressive that in just 20 months of life, he goes from understanding no verbal cues to going into the next room and getting me what i ask for. i think repeating new words has lost its novelty, but he has one phrase that he can say, "it's/that's a bawwwwl." the boy loves to throw balls. so much so, that the other day, he picked up the remote and said "ball?" translation: "are we going to watch football now?" i have to say, i shed a few tears...go vols! he does a few animal noises (cow, monkey, elephant, dog) and loves to pick up objects around the house and identify them as "mommy/daddy." he's also started remembering his favorite parts of books and wanting to read them. he's a happy, active little man. we couldn't ask for anything better :)

grandma agnew

tom's grandmother, geneva agnew, passed away this past sunday. she was 91 years old. while i had only met mrs. agnew once about a year and a half ago, numerous people testified to her godly, quiet character; a virtue that is sadly missing in my life most days. it was wonderful to hear how the marker of her life was her character and not her cooking, or physical beauty, or for heaven's sake, her bank account. while most days i stress over getting to the grocery store or keeping up with the laundry, i have to confess, i don't stress over making God's Word a priority. in fact, i've been known to congratulate myself when i carve out a few minutes during caleb's naptime, a.k.a. "my" time, for reading and prayer. pretty bold to tell God to stay out of "my" time, huh??? while i had very little opportunity to have a personal relationship with mrs. agnew, her lasting character quitely encouraged me today to serve the God she served with the same faithfulness.

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!