Well, it has been way too long since I have updated our blog! We now have a new bouncing baby boy! His name is Kaelan Patrick Severson. He was born May 1st 2007 at 3:14am. He weighed 8lbs 3oz and was 21 inches long!

Now he is six weeks old and full of personality. I just took pictures of him yesterday, trying for a smile. But once the camera was in front of him he was way to into the camera and ignored my coos. First he just stared, then he quirked his eyebrow when it made it's Clicking sound, and would follow the camera around wherever it went. After a while he started to hear me and got excited, moving his arms around. When he did that he caught sight of his fist and started watching it with such intensity that it made me laugh. Then he lost sight of it and was screaming mad!! But, fortunately, the other fist came into sight and was rewarded with a smile and excited cooing and fist shaking, which of course, made him lose sight of it again!!

Levi had a great time during his last game, just look at these pictures! Fun and smiles, everyone. Probably too much of that and not enough of playing the game!! But hey, it was pouring rain and the coach wanted to go extra innings! Crazy man! The kids didn't care, but us loser parents were pretty grumpy about it, and wet when we didn't want to be! Levi had a good season, when he was paying attention, that is. Being in the outfield is painfully boring for Levi and often times he will be found spinning around with his mitt on his face or trying to catch rain in his mouth. He did this in his last game, and mom, from the safety and warmth of the car saw this and tried desperately to get out of the car and to a place to photograph this, but alas, not in time. So. . . just use your imagination! Now on to the minor leagues with tryouts and real baseball team names. (We shall see how much we like that)

Calder's first game was a big hit! He did a great job and worked really hard. He had a lot of fun. He is really happy because many of his friends are on his team. There is Ruby and Chaz from preschool and Taylor and Spencer from church. They have a really patient, nice coach and he makes them really love the game. When other batters are hitting the rest of the team sits on buckets, not only does it keep them from getting muddy (this is Oregon after all) but it also keeps them in one place! Calder is a lefty and his coach makes sure that he is taught to hit left handed. He does a good job too! He hit the ball and ran to 1st! Way to go Calder!!

We went down to Klamath Falls just a couple of weeks before my due date. Crazy, I know. But it would have been really fun if Ansel hadn't developed a fever of 104. He had huge tonsils with white spots and was really lethargic. In fact, he got so bad at one point that he started to hallucinate. So, needless to say we spent much of our time in the beautiful 3 bdrm condo my dad had rented for the weekend. Hey it could have been worse, we could have been camping. Instead we had a full kitchen and living room with fireplace and TV with DVD player so Ansel could be warm and watch movies. There was a pool on the resort and so the bigger boys got to go swimming and play on playgrounds. One time on the way back from the lodge and pool we spotted this little ground squirrel is sat there watching us pass and I decided to take his picture, he let me get as close as three feet and then decided that was close enough and disappeared down his hole. The one thing that we did do was go see Crater Lake, it was springtime and nice down at the resort, but when we got up to the Lake there was at least 10 or more feet of snow. What a difference a couple thousand feet make! The boys loved jumping off the bathroom roof and sliding down, Calder got his foot stuck once and was pretty scared! But all in all , it was a fun time. Ansel, however, stayed in the car asleep. The next day we drove home and took Ansel straight to the doctors. His fever had never gone down the whole weekend. The doctor gave him some antibiotics and it was gone the next day. What a relief!