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Jessica is turning in to quite the chef.

Tonight, last minute, she decided to make some sort of Indian chicken dish. “It was a keeper for sure, that gets five stars,” she just said after I mentioned how tasty it was. She just looked it up, it’s called Murgh Kare (here’s the recipe). Anyway, over dinner Jessica, after tasting her dish, turned to me and complimented herself: “I’m getting pretty fricken’ good at making dinner aren’t I?” And she is! She even made some sort of saag-type type dish with fresh spinach and potato as a side, totally made up the recipe and it was tasty. I said to her before, it’s really wonderful for me and all the kids that she can cook and that she’s getting so good at it. Think of all the million meals we’ll be enjoying from our in-house chef? And can you imagine the quantities she’ll be making in 10 years? Holy wakamolee!

And she does it with two babies.

A real bear hug.

Today we took all four children to the zoo.  We don’t go very many places with all four children, just relatives’ houses or maybe a friend’s house where I will be able to nurse, there will be extra people to help with holding babies or engaging our older children and there will be few demands on our attention.  But today I really wanted to go with Ben and the boys to the zoo.  We can’t stay in forever!!!   It was successful, despite the fact that we had to separate into boys and girls camps most of the time and lost each other’s respective parties twice.  But it was not crazy chaotic and everybody got to see what they wanted to see – the boys and I got to see the gibbons and other animals in the tropics and Ben and the girls got to see a nice bench near an orchid information table.

It also just happened to be a birthday for one of the grizzly bears.  So the Berenstain Bears came to the zoo.  It just occurred to me… Are the Berenstain Bears Jewish?  Or would that have to be BerenstEIN?

Anyway, here’s Art getting his obligatory hug from Mama Berenstain.  He has always enjoyed meeting mascots.  Just like his aunt, Emily.  He wanted Netta and Bailey to be able to meet the Berenstains as well, but by the time we had gone back to where Ben was sitting with the girls and returned the Berenstains had left for a coffee break or lunch or something.

Lewis was apprehensive at first, but once he got closer he also wanted to hug Mama Berenstain.

Wrestling.

As I was photographing this yesterday I was thinking how fun it’d be to come to the state wrestling meet with Arthur and Lewis one year. They’re constantly (especially Lewis) asking to wrestle and seeing the actual sport might up their game. I can pin Art and Lew every time.

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