Ok, so I must confess I’m not the best blogger. I’m what I would call a “picture poster”. When we started this blog I (we) were going to blog about our life here in Texas. We did that for a few weeks and then we (I) just started posting pictures of the kids because that’s all people ever ask about. The kids do so many funny things and they go unseen to family and friends so I wanted to catch you up on a few. Don’t worry pics will be back very soon!
Graham-
Graham is really living up to his nickname that our dear neighbor gave him “Dennis”. He is so sweet and loving but he gets into everything! His favorite thing at the moment is markers. Haley was not the kind of kid to draw all over stuff. She did it ONCE. Graham-oh he does it every day! If he gets a hold of anything with ink (or lead) he goes to town. BTW, if he does not have paper, table, floor, couch or refrigerator, he just uses himself! He is also into balls. If he has a ball and wants to play toss and you’re not looking, he will just peg you in the face and say “catch”. He also loves to jump. He will jump off anything no matter the height. A few months ago he jumped off the couch, belly buster style onto the hard tile (with a thin rug as protection). He got up, kinda made a face and then went to jump again. This time he looked at us and said “catch”. He is still a bad eater. He loves anything with sugar and that’s about it! Food that he dislikes he will put in his mouth and push it to the side and then eat the food he likes and then when it’s all said and done, spit out the food that he first ate. Very sneaky that one. That about sums up graham :)
Haley-
She is a big girl now. She has been in school for about 6 weeks and is doing great. She loves her classroom and has made lots of new friends. She told us she can’t always remember their names because they are too hard to say :) From what we can tell she is a good student. She has been on blue(that’s the best she can be on)every day. Notice I said has been. Yesterday she got on RED. That’s the next to worse thing (blue, green, yellow, red, and then black)! When I read her behavior color the first thing I said, and it was kinda loud, was HALEY O'NEAL SISSON! That kinda scared her enough! When Alex talked to her about what she had done it was kinda silly. She said that when she was at lunch a boy was hitting himself in the face so she thought that she would join in! So, she just slapped him in the face! We still don’t know what she was thinking! Other than that one incident, things have been great with her. She has learned to read a few words and is writing up a storm. She is also learning how to use the computer. We underestimated her. She has been working on computer skills at school and we had no idea she could even use a computer! Little miss is growing fast and is just as excited as we are about moving to PNG!
Kelley & Alex-
We are great. It’s quiet here. We were so used to having lots of adults and kids and now it’s just us. We do have a family that is staying upstairs (they are hurricane refugees) so that’s been nice. They have 2 girls, one of which goes to school with Haley. Alex has been spending most of his time working on logistics for Puapa New Guinea. He has also been working very hard on our monthly, yearly and one time PNG budget. As far as me… there is so much that I want to do, but still have a hard time finding time. When I do get free time I try to help out with office work or work on my latest project, inventorying 6 apartments! Even though we are not working full time corporate jobs, working to be launched among the nations takes a lot of time and work! Please pray that God will be glorified in all we do!!
