My friends son doesn’t suck any more!

Posted on 17. May, 2009 by in Family, Fresh Ideas, Humor

If you read my blog with any regularity, you’ve heard me mention my good friends Joel and Heidi Hayslip, missionaries to Burkina Faso. They’re awesome and they’ve got an incredible family. Well, their oldest son, Jakob, officially stopped sucking. Yes, you heard that right, he doesn’t suck any more.

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  • http://westcoastcm.wordpress.com Anthony Prince

    I have friends (michael and tiffany jeter) serving as missionaries in Burkina Faso as well!
    http://web.me.com/mtjeter/Site/Welcome.html

    Small world.

  • http://www.hayslips.com/missionblog Joel Hayslip

    We just met Michael and Tiffany last week. Great couple! Let me know if you have any secrets I can use to blackmail them…

    Joel Hayslips last blog post..Jakob no longer sucks!

  • http://www.jonathancliff.com jonathan

    Congrats on NOT sucking. That is my daily life goal, actually…

    My wife is a SpeechLanguage Pathologist, and sucking of pacifiers, thumbs, other people’s thumbs has been beaten out of every one of my kids at an early age. :)