ADD

As most of you know Caleb is a very active little boy! Understatement! If he were in a public school, they would label him as ADD and want to put him on drugs. Really, he is a very bright little boy who has endless energy. He is doing very good in school, he can read and loves to be challenged in everything except penmanship. Not his favorite subject! Since he is soooo active I'm trying to come up with ways to keep him occupied, and hopefully we can channel all this energy into something good. Here is my latest project for him. Peach cobbler, Yum!! This next one is when he gets all of his energy out!

Baby Bump 251/2 weeks

Okay, It has taken me almost 2 weeks to post these, but here are the latest baby bump pictures. No laughing please, and Laura I DO have a bump! (More like a mound right now!)

Explanations

Okay, here goes, since I've been pregnant, the kids have had some doozie questions. I have given them very vague answers, so it has just brought on more questions. On the way home from lessons tonight I started listening to their conversation they were having in the back seat. (I often tune out their conversations!) Anyway, they were talking about when the penguins brought the baby. I said, "What?". Jonathan speaks up and says, "oh, not the penguins those long legged birds!" "The stork?" I replied. "Yeah, that's it!" was their reply. How storks got turned into penguins I'll never know, but it made me chuckle!

Everything went good!

Sorry, I didn't get back on here yesterday. Me and the couch had a 2 hour appointment! Little Miss Tabitha had me up most of the night on Tuesday so by the time school was out I was wiped out! She is sooo active! We started school at 8am and took one 15 min. break and amazingly we were finished by lunch. It won't be that way every day as the boys videos will get more involved, but it was a good first day. Caleb and Leah have enough seatwork to keep them busy while I'm helping the other one. Pray that God will give me the endurance to be able to keep up with everything. I have less than fourteen weeks to go before the baby is due and I'm hoping to get as much done as possible.

Today's the day!

Yep, today we start another year of school! Right now, the kids are in Bible class with Mr. Howle. He is such a good teacher! He gets right down on the kids level to where even Caleb can understand. Jonathan and Seth are on videos this year. So, I'm hoping to have a easy year, if you can call homeschooling four kids and having newborn easy. I'm excited, I think I'll be able to spend more time working with Caleb and Leah on things we have skipped this year. The first few weeks are nothing but review so I'm going to use this time to work on different things. If everything goes good, I'm hoping to be done teaching by 1 or 2 in the afternoon. Last year we went until 4:30 almost every day. It was some really long days. Well, I must go now they are finished with Bible for the day. I'll try to post later on how it went.

Happenings

Well, this week has been weird. Part of the time, I've been bored others have been busy. Started the week by trying to rid my kitchen of ants. I had to throw a whole box of cereal away because of ants. I was not happy! So, I took everything out of the pantry, shelves and all, washed everything down with bleach, painted and put everything back. Guess what! No ants! Yeah, now I'm happy! Wednesday was spent trying to recover from my painting venture. Thursday, I learned how to give a yard a grass transplant. Interesting, and I learned what exercises I need to do to shed some pounds after this little one is born! Last night we were able to have a family night, it is the first one we have had in quite a while. It was so much fun! On the way home, I ended up slap happy. I think that was the first time I've been slap happy in years. It felt sooo good just to laugh uncontrollably! The kids asked their dad, what is wrong with mommy? I must not laugh enough for them! Today, we went to the kids exchange down in Raleigh. It is a HUGE consignment sale of kids stuff. They had everything you could possibly want or need for kids all ages. I got Tabitha a couple little dresses and gowns. I had forgotten how fun it is to dress a baby girl. Even Jonathan got in on picking out stuff. I did notice that Seth didn't pick anything out. (He has always hated the color pink!) It was crazy, we waited in line to get in, then waited for over an hour to check out! The whole day, Tabitha was very still and quiet, and since we have been home she hasn't quit moving. Not even for five minutes. She has had the hickups at least twice. What am I going to do with her after she is born?? Jonathan's dvd's are on the way for school and Leah and Caleb's books have also been shipped. I'm hoping to start the week of the 4th. Hopefully, I'll be ready by then! Oh, and I now have friends on facebook. I have no idea how to work the thing or how I'll have time to keep up with it, but it has been nice to reconnect with all the different "kids" we have worked with in different ministries. They have all grown up so much, it is amazing how much time has passed. Well, I must run, I sent the kids to bed, but I doubt very seriously they have actually made their way there. Oh, and a praise, Bryan got our lawn mower ready. I guess we won't need that goat after all!