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Special Delivery!

Sarah Elaine Terhune was born on this beautiful day at 3:02pm. As the largest our children, Sarah weighed in at a whopping 6lbs 8ozs.

I'm an aunt!

Things have been crazy around here, so I haven't even been reading many blogs, let alone posting! However, I have to let you know that I became an aunt on Sunday, and Kevin actually posted pictures on his blog! Kim has some on hers, too, so check out the links to the right.
I'm plugging along, waiting on this baby to arrive. Our little schedule is off by two days, so we actually have 9 days to go until the due date.
Rachel has learned to ride her bike, and she just lost her two front teeth!
Daniel is into everything and loves to swing. Daddy got the swingset put together, which he is LOVING!
Brad's parents ended up buying a house a half block away for a summer home, so Susan stayed on from their vacation. It will be great to have her here when Sarah is born! The house needs a lot of work, so she's living with us until September when Dave comes back.
I had a lady machine quilt the two quilt tops that I pieced over the last two years, and now I'm working on finishing the binding. I'll post pictures when I'm done. I also just got my custom framing kit from Creative Memories and held my first custom framing party on Monday - very fun. I'm having our wedding photo, four generation photo with my grandmother and a favorite photo of Rachel and Daniel framed. So now I can do framing parties as well as digital, PicFolio and traditional scrapbooking. I'm excited!
Brad is keeping busy with his many jobs and getting ready for Sarah to make her appearance. We're just about completely moved from the other house, but we still have boxes here. Ugh. It takes forever. Please be praying about our house sale - just found out today that the sale of our buyer's house in Arkansas may not go through, which means our sale will not go through. We can't keep on like this forever! Please pray for a quick resolution!
That's all for now... Daniel is playing with my quilting pins...

Update

We've been gone at camp for two weeks, so I apologize for the lack of postings! I have no pictures either, because our scanner is disconnected. I would be able to show you Sarah's hair-do that we saw on the ultrasound three weeks ago - it's just lovely. :) Anyway, we discovered that she was breech on that ultrasound, but today I found out that she has officially flipped - in a good way :) She's head down and ready to go. Now if these annoying contractions would do anything, we'd be in business!
Brad's parents are here for a visit this week, so I won't be posting much else for awhile. We'll let you know if there's any baby news, though. :)

Sarah

Since Best Buy is still holding my laptop hostage, most of our pictures have ended up on Brad's laptop. He seems to think that he should take it to work with him every day, so I haven't have many opportunites to update our blog with pictures. Your wait is over! I have several pictures for you in the next couple of posts.

First of all, as promised to Keetha, here is the picture of me with our third child on Mother's Day. Yes, I am just huge... everywhere! We think we are going to name her Sarah Elizabeth. I'll post more pictures of her when I have another ultrasound in a couple of weeks. It's really hard for me to believe it, but I was actually measuring small this last visit. I'd hate to see what I look like if I were measuring large! The only reason I believe it is because I measured small with Rachel and Daniel, too. I just have tiny babies...

Sarah continues to make her presence known with lots of movement and many, many annoying contractions. At least it's not as bad as when I was pregnant with Daniel. Tonight she had the hiccups - I think that's the first that I've felt it with her. Rachel is having a great time trying to identify body parts that are moving. She thought it was really funny that she was probably feeling Sarah's bottom. :)

Mom is now concerned that Sarah and my little nephew David will be born on the same day. Wouldn't that be fun? David is due about a week before Sarah. Mom will go crazy with TWO babies, especially when they're together!

Rachel

Rachel is playing coaches' pitch/tee-ball this year. I'll post more pictures later, but the one I had on this computer is of her wearing all the catcher's gear! The girls rotate positions each inning, so they can learn about all the different positions. She likes being the "pitcher" the best. She doesn't actually pitch, but she stands on the pitcher's mound and fields the ball. I think she likes it the best because that's where most of the action is!

She was thrilled to help me plant flowers in the corner in our back yard. Daddy dug the holes and we filled them in!
We spent Memorial Day weekend out at the campgrounds. Here she is pretending to be asleep with Jack on our couch in the cottage. Don't they look comfy? Jack is such a good sport.

One side note from the weekend... several small dogs were there this weekend, and when Daniel saw them, he would "meow," as if they were kitties :) Uncle Mike would be proud. We, of course, have a "real dog," never to be confused for a kitty.

Happy Mother's Day to me!

Daniel

Here's Daniel in the ER examining his new bandage on his hand. That's where they finally were able to draw blood. This was from the Rat Poison Incident. (See Yummy Part 2)

Daniel loves his "cah" or "car" as we like to call it. Here he is driving around with several of Rachel's bracelets on his arm. He insisted upon wearing the bracelets. He also likes to put several of her hair rubber bands on his upper arm, but those tend to cut off all circulation, which bothers me.
And he had just learned to say "hair"...
This is really all Amy's fault. Barry uses the clippers to cut her boys' hair, and I thought Brad could do the same. It would make for a nice, cool summer haircut and we would have to pay to have it cut. Good idea, right? See below and then you can tell me what you think.
Really I think Brad was just jealous that Daniel had more hair than he did, so he cut it all off!!!!! It was supposed to be 7/8" but supposedly it wasn't cutting any more. So Brad pulled out the SHORTEST one, so his hair became only 1/8 " long. Sniff, sniff. Such beautiful hair.... all on the FLOOR! (and in the bib, high chair and all over the kitchen in general.) This was a few weeks ago, and it actually has grown quite a bit since then. It might even need to be trimmed again!

Here we are on Mother's Day. I've finally started to recognize my boy again with his military cut. :)