“Thank you,” Stephanie replied. She didn’t actually say the words, more a throaty gluck, but Steven and Daniel had learned to understand her gag... like the parents of a child using made-up words. They often had to translate for Stephanie’s fiancé since he didn’t spend nearly as much time with her as they did.“Are you nervous?”Before Stephanie had a chance to gag a response, the opening notes of Here Comes The Bride told the human pig-roast that it was time to shuffle awkwardly down the aisle.. “They are eager, curious and ready to learn. It’s just that their bodies are lacking.”“Malnutrition growing up.” Was my response to the obvious.“Kate has a problem eating enough food. We brought a nutritionist in and are slowly increasing her portion size.” After spending some time on the state of the girls’ health and progress, I interrupted my guest.“I assume that you don’t need that,” I pointed at the signal jammer, “for their update.”“You have a Portal Store list.”“You might as well start. By missing church, Rachael had missed her timein the nursery, and she realized how much she missed caring for thebabies.Chef announced that Barron's were invited to his dinner, with MissLajoie agreeing. Linda had told her about church, and had convincedher to attend the following week. At one point Miss Lajoie noticedthat there were two men in her house: Chef and Geoff, and she didn'tmind. Then Grandpa came over, and it was just more merriment. Kidswere running around, and Miss Lajoie had. " Oh, Wes. Don't be so gross." Leslie. First of all it's part of your body, so there's no way it could be gross. Second, if I do something to you that hurts, no matter what, I need to know about it and I'm going to take care of it if there's any way I can. I know I haven't been holding up my end of the bargain for the past few years, but I took responsibility for taking care of you when we were both young and I'm not going to back out again, even if I have to force you to tell me when.