The kiddos

The little ones are adjusting very well to being here in Haiti. Jaron LOVES all the people interaction! School time is the hardest time of the day, as he has to be in the house, away from everybody else. He's thriving on being able to help his daddy so much, and having a friend his age to play with most of the time. The few times he's been out of the compound he's quickly made friends with some of the Haitian boys too. It's amazing at how well children can communicate when they can't speak each other's languages! He seems very intrigued with Creole, and has been asking me how to say this or that in Creole. I can't help him out, but I don't think it would take him long to learn the language if he had a chance to be out a bit more.

Eliott is doing fine. He doesn't care for having strangers constantly around, but has his own little ways of working around that and finding a corner where he can play by himself. Since he normally takes a long nap in the afternoon, a good chunk of the day is spent in hiding too! He's finally gotten brave enough to actually walk by a Haitian without Daddy or Mommy there holding his hand, but he still won't greet them. Or some of the other missionaries, either!

Little Leanna is the heart stealing charmer around here. She has some stiff "competition" with the Simmon's dark haired cutie, though! They actually get along pretty well, for both being 10 months old for a few more days. She's growing up so much it seems. Yesterday she was crawling around on hands and feet, even though she didn't have a dress on, and today she was walking along holding on with just one hand! I still have high hopes she'll be walking  before we leave. I have some pictures of her from the last couple of days. Her hair gets really curly in the humidity here, and it's SO pretty! Guess you really can't see that in the pictures, though. . .