I thought today it would be good to post an update of what’s been going on at home! As you know, my wife, Milkshake, and our two cubs, live in Saint Paul. They live in an apartment with MAJ Simer’s wife, Kelly, and their cub, Amy.

From time to time, Milkshake sends me care packages. She tries to send me treats and food items that I can’t get over here. I told her that the food was not good here (no seals, whales, or walruses at all), and she thought that was terrible! So, she tried to send me a walrus. She figured that sending a live walrus would be best – that way it wouldn’t spoil on the trip. Here are a couple of pictures Kelly took of Milkshake putting the walrus into the box. Apparently the walrus didn’t want to go.

Sometimes, Milkshake and Kelly take turns watching the cubs. Today it was Milkshake’s turn.

One way that polar bear cubs develop is by play-fighting. That’s how they learn the skills and develop the muscles they need to catch seals and other animals to eat, and to fight other polar bears. Milkshake thinks that those are important skills for humans to have, too. So she often play-wrestles with Amy.

It looks like Amy got the better of this fight!