John Isaac will be 16 years old tomorrow! This is my youngest son. He has already surprised me this week by getting his shoulder length hair cut. He use to go to a private school that required him to have his ears showing. Now he goes to a public school that allows his blond curly hair to be long and flowing. It will not take his hair long to be long again. I guess it will be next summer before he gets another haircut. He gets his moneys worth at the barber shop.

John Isaac is doing the required paper work to receive his Eagle Scout rank. He has been in scouts starting as a Tiger Cub. He had on his orange T-shirt with black paw prints on it for every achievement he completed. When He was a cub scout the scout master took him by his waist and turned him upside down to give him a pin for an advancement. He was no taller than my waist then. Now he is taller than the scout master. He is over six feet tall.

I use to have to plead with him to practice his piano. He fought me over that. Every moment he had to spend doing the scales seemed painful. Today he plays the guitar. He is in his room for hours playing and practicing. He sings in the church choir and plays the guitar for the praise band.

I remember when he was going to have his first spelling bee. I worked with him on it past his endurance. He got the list and tore it up so that he did not have to do it any more. He won the bee. I do believe that was the last time I ever tried to make him study.

He is totally self sufficient. That is a hard sentence to write. I have three competent men that are self sufficient. Yesterday they were each a baby held in my arms or holding my hand. John Isaac will be 16 tomorrow