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His mother was just barely able to plan future meals by carefully keeping a record of the food her son consumed. Here is a partial list from when Ignatius was six years old:

November the 8th

• 12 pheasant
• 2 doz., pheasant eggs
• 1 days output of the milk cow
• 2 doz. griddle cakes
• 14 lbs. kale, raw
• 12 lbs. kale, cooked
• 1 head kale (snack)
• 2 2/3 wheel of cheese
• 23 oranges, juice of
• 18 lbs pork liver (and assorted offal)
• 1 unfortunate mouse

Iggy continued to grow and grow, spherically, in all directions, creating unique carpentry challenges for his parents. By the time he reached eight years old, his father had had to alter the doorways of the house to accommodate his considerable girth.

Ignatius J. Rausch was born in the tallest tower on the highest hill of a low lying town. Weighing exactly 18 pounds and perfectly round, he was a very difficult child to hold on to. After the third incident of his rolling from his crib, down the tower stairs, out of the hospital and into the village (where he inevitably came to a halt in one of the low lying potholes) the nuns and nurses of St. Ethelbert’s found they had no choice but the put him in a bag specially designed for the transport of a particularly large bowling ball.