My wife had this for the main course tonight.
We had a beautiful rainbow out behind out house. The rainbow was complete and the double rainbow went almost half way around. 
Me to five year old, “Did you take your Sunday afternoon nap?”
Five year old, “Well I did not sleep.”
Me “Why, Couldn’t you sleep?”
Five year old, “Well lets not worry about that part.”
Later
Five year old “My brother is turning five next week”
Me “Will he be caught up to you than?”
Five year old, ” Yea for a little bit but than I have a birthday than I am out of here!”
Later five year old “My dad just turned 30 yesterday. Daddy just can’t catch up to mommy, soon mom will have another birthday and than she will be out of here (not thirty anymore).”
Eight year old friend, “How old was your dad? Was he 29? Hold it he was young.”
BTW “Happy Birthday Mike”
The post below was sent to me on my Xanga account. Ok I have a Xanga account that does not have any identifying information on it. I admit I have a grudge against Xanga sites. One of my quirks is that I don’t want to create an account with some (My dad taught me if I can’t say anything nice not to say anything at all)blog site just to read their content but I enjoy reading what my friends (and some others for that matter) have to say on Xanga sites. I compromised and created an account with no identifying information. Today I received this reply on my Xanga.
Lots of people get all perturbed by anonymous stalkers on Xanga. Not me. I just think they are a bit cowardly and/or paranoid. I roll my eyes at them and move on. But it is a bit irritating to have anonymous people stalking on Xanga who have their sites locked. I may start blocking people like that just on general principle. Of course, they could always tell me who they are and I would cheerfully unblock them. For that matter, I think I am going to block anonymous stalkers on general principle too. If you are anonymous, and if you stalk here, and if you don’t let me know who you are, or if you never comment, then you will probably find yourself blocked. Here’s a hint: You don’t have to be signed into Xanga to read my site. So if you are blocked you can always log out of your account and still read my blog. So what is my point you ask? First of all, let me assure you, anyone and everyone is free to read my blog. I couldn’t care less. Sure, now and then someone will give me grief over it. No big deal there. I am doing this for several reasons. Some of you have anonymous accounts simply to spy on people. You know who you are. You signed up on Xanga strictly to get around the Xanga block so you can spy. You stink. Second, the whole concept of “I will read all through your blog but will keep my blog and my identity secret from you” also stinks. So I am going to make it a little harder for you to read my blog. Don’t be whining now either. Because I will just laugh at you. Third, if you sign up on Xanga, and won’t even enter one single piece of information on your site, then you don’t deserve to read my site without some extra hassle. Fourth, Xanga is about community. If you have a blank site, refuse to comment on anyone else’s site, etc. you are probably a leach. Or one of those spies I mentioned above. And I hear too many of you who do this moan and groan about how bad Xanga is, and how it’s such a waste of time. Well stay off then. I choose to write on Xanga and your whining only irritates me and makes you look foolish and self righteous. So I am going to make it just a bit harder for you to read my site. Get over it. Later y’all… ******** PS. Yes, I do feel better. PPS. If you are blocked and choose to change your behavior email me at *****&%**@gmail.com and I will unblock you.
Now if you folks guess what my Xanga user name is than make a comment on my Xanga site. I will respond if you are correct.
Hope you folks have as much fun as I have.
My dad sent me some very interesting old pictures.
This is a picture of my dad from 1964 or 1965. Somebody called my dad and said he had some pictures from about 40 years ago. My dad looks a lot like my youngest brother Matt.
This is my dad, my aunt Sadie, and likely my cousin Anna. The baby is a bit uncertain and is only an educated guess. My uncles looked in the “Fisher book” and figured my cousin is likely the baby in the picture.
Grace with a rare moment with her eyes wide open. She seems to sleep a lot.
Our 3 children
Eric Age 3
Heidi Age 1
Baby Grace 6 days old
I forum that I sometimes read had a thread on posting screen shots from your computer. I thought some of you might enjoy a screen shot of my computer.
And ……. I don’t nearly always have this many programs running at once.
Aunt Rhoda and others are wanting more pictures and details. instead of emailing those that might be interested, I will just post them here.
You men may skip this post. If it would be anybody else’s baby, I would likely do the same. I use to think all babies look alike. Well since I have my own children, I don’t think that way anymore. I have a hard time remembering how my other children looked. I do remember that Heidi at least had more hair when she was born.
My dad and mom and Johny were out to visit us at the hospital this afternoon. My dad enjoys his photography hobby. Grandpa Stoltzfus only took about 50 pictures in the two hours he was visiting. He used much more constraint than he did with Heidi. When Heidi was born, he must have taken 100 to 150 pictures. I think he took at least 50 pictures in the first 10 minutes. Fortunately he has a digital camera and does not have to pay to develop all of the pictures. Anyway we did find at least 2 pictures that you might enjoy.
Grace Sleeping
I had wanted to take some pictures with Linda and Grace but Grace was not awake enough to give us a good chance.
Maybe I also give a few comments about our hospital stay.
We certainly are very thankful for the service of doctors and hospitals when we need them. The birth of all of our children probably would not have happened without the aid of doctors and hospitals. All that aside, we experienced enough with midwives to really miss some of their workable spirit.
We had our share of frustrations. For starters, we went to the hospital at 5:30 AM in preparation for the scheduled 7:30 operation. My wife was outside the operation room doors all hooked up to tubes ect. They were waiting for the doctors papers before they were allowed to take her into the operation room. They tried to find the doctor and discovered he was still at home in bed.
Well lets just say that there was a few folks that were less than happy. So we had to go back to our room and wait till the next opening in the operation room which was at noon. That was not a good way to start our hospital experience.
Observation #2 Jokes by above doctor have NO humor whatsoever especially to a women that has just laid in bed with misl. tubes for 4 hours because you forgot about said operation.
Observation #3 nurses training does not necessarily impart common sense. Ask my wife for details.
Observation #4, hospitals will not let you go home till they feel like it. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
OK enough whining. Linda and the baby plan to come home tomorrow morning (Wednesday)
A note to those who don’t know our experience. We tried midwives with our first two. We ended up in the hospital having to have a C section both times. After the the oldest child, the doctor told us that we should definitely not go with midwife the next time. He was even somewhat home birth friendly . We decided we were willing to take the risk and try at home again. We also ended up in the hospital with our second one. Our dream of home birth had to die.
Despite some of our dreams dieing, my wife and I feel tremendously blessed to have the privilege of having three wonderful, healthy children.
Grace Elaine Stoltzfus was born July 16 at about 1PM.
Proud parents are Seth and Linda Stoltzfus
Proud siblings are Eric Chad 3 and Heidi 1
Grace a few hours old.
Grace with sister Heidi and brother Eric and dad.
Mother and baby are doing fine.
Please come and visit us. We never had too many visitors with our other children.
Check back in the next day and we will try to have more pictures and details.