*Busy days!* homeschooling the babies!

Two posts in one day... can you tell I'm totally chatty with absolutely no one to talk to. haha! It's a busy time in the White house actually. We have our three babies, a very picky little one still in the womb, 6 ducks and 3 geese, and our home. Our days have grown to be so very busy but so filled with joy! I have started preschool with my Rebekah and my Moses. Reading with my Rebekah. Nothing else to serious. We do a story out of our Jesus storybook bible. Followed by catechism time and memory verses with a hymn. Then we read books for at least an hour. We do lots of worksheets. Moses did 17 front and back the week before last. He's working on tracing. Rebekah does kumon tracing, numbers, and letters. They are both getting used to seeing and tracing their names to. It's been awesome. I don't really have big aspirations for them right now. We are going to start get set for school with moses. Handwriting without tears with Rebekah. Five in a row with both. In October I believe.. I have lots of fun crafts planned for the fall. Carving pumpkins, making pies. Handmade ornaments and ofcourse nativity ornaments. The jesse tree will be done again. Getting excited. I want to visit and apple orchard, pumpkin farm, pecan farm, and  a regular farm. Make apple butter, pumpkin butter, peach butter, pies, and breads...and read books on all of it. Also I'd like to go back to abacs gricultural museum place. And to the Florida one. I hope we make it back to the mountains in Tennessee this spring so we can see cades cove. Rachel will make her debut in January to. Lots of trips to florida states parks..and the zoo..  I wanted to ease in to it... and we have.  And we want to start little house on the prairie with them as soon as we can  They have a paper dolls, crafts, and cook book that goes with that series and little kid books for rahabs age that she would enjoy at the same time. I want to take them through the whole bible starting in Genesis and memorizing cool verses as we go... but that's a big task for me to take on so I think I'm going to let joey head that up at night. We are learning to knit. ANd I have aspirations to add in puppet time, music and dancing time, outdoor explorations and harp time. I wish I could get Rebekah a Suzuki violin because I want her to learn to play sooo bad and she can with the Suzuki method. Unfortunately I can't find any teachers to teach them around here. They are in a tumbling class and we do library time once a week. It's a work in progress and we are not at all doing the method I would really like to do but I had to begin at some point and so we began. It's my goal to have Rebekah reading by the end of the year and writing all her letters and number 1-120. We will see. I really would like to do all our school on the trail learning threw nature. I would like to have a big garden, milk goats, meat rabbits, bees, silkie chickens, and a micro pig(for my Rebekah).Lots of different types of birds we hatch from, flower beds...and set the yard up as a farming classroom with each kid having 3- 4x4 rised bed gardens to tend to. Doing crafts like spinning yarn, knitting and crochet, quilting,sewing, pottery, candle making, wood working, needle felting, painting. Joey always tells me we don't have to do everything at one time. So that's why I had to just start where I could...and since I am pregnant and I can't take the heAt- gardening has to wait till the spring. WE'll hatch chicks then to. Do butterflys. All the cool kids projects like ant farms.... but for now we are doing lots of reading.   My Rahab has begun potty training. We also do about 8 puzzles together and read some books together...she reads with all of us on my lap...but she also has a set aside time for reading with mommy. She colors and plays with play dough. It's been very fun. I have taken to cooking a ho meal at every meal time becaue Rachel is so picky. She hates gluton/wheat, sugar and substitutes, starch, red meat. She does seem to be easing up but I am enjoying the food...and the kids are enjoying cooking with me so we are keeping that up and we clean on the house together everyday which they enjoy a great deal. Moses has the chore of feeding the ducks with mommy! Life is busy. In my spare time I am busy knitting up hats and blankets and diaper covers for my Rachel. I wish I was working on memorizing all the scripture I want to memorize. Making photo albums of my babies, crfating in the 100 crafts i'd like to do...( like making wood peg people, carving food for rebekahs kitchen, hand quilting, sewing felt puppets and dresses for the girls.) WWriting in my journals.... but everything can wait till tomorrow. Right now my dAYS are a little to full. I don't even get to talk with my friends much at this point because everyday is packed! My Joey seems to like all the progress I'm making though. That makes me sooo very happy! : ) I have been thinking about just the animals I'd like to add to the classroom and it makes me laugh...frogs, hermit crabs, mice, snake, different lizarsds, turtle, meal worms, ant farm, chameleon, fish, guinea pigs, hedgehog. I have so many ambitious plans for them with school... but it can get way to expensive and out of hand if I don't watch out. I know it's not vital for them to learn how to forage for food, and fish. To milk a cow or goat and make cheese and butter. But I want it for them sooo very bad. It's not important to learn to plow a field with  tractor and a horse. I want them to learn to ride a horse and donkey. To be able to pull a cart with both as well. But I want them to do it. I want them to fix cars and tractors up to. I hope we will be able to do 4h next year. Joey doesn't want to...but I told him I waited my whole life to get to do 4h...we're doing it. These are my silly goals. I really want them to memorize most of the bible, learn greek and Spanish, graduate with A bachelors degree at the time they would be graduating from highschool. ALl have hearts to adopt. Oh I can't even let myself begin talking about adoption. There are soo many children that need homes and I would love to adopt a sibling group! My boys. There rae two boys I've had my eyes on for 2 or 3 years now with microcephaly and cerebral palsy that I wish beyond all things I could have. They are so cute! Joey and I love special needs people and children and we hope to instill that in our children. : ) Oh homeschool. We are very busy with you right now. I should add the kids want a puppy and a cat. : )