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Yet Another Birthday…

…where my grand plan to make Deb’s Best Birthday Cake [1], devolves into this [2] instead.

But Abby will forgive me when she opens these [3] and this [4]. (We’ve already exhausted Season 1.)

I’m thinking of having a third child, if only so I can dress him or her in this [5] for Halloween.

Why can’t it be October 25 right exactly now? [6]

I always knew Reese was a smart one. [7] (Please note her choice of reading material.)

A good reminder: Who’s David and who’s Goliath [8] in the battle between book publishers and Amazon?

I’ve accepted the fact that I will never have handwriting like Marion Deuchars [9], but now I can at least have her book. (Be sure to play the “How to Draw a Simple Bird” video for your kids.)

How fun is this menu planning? And I’m totally making the lemon-garlic-anchovy potatoes [10] this weekend.

And now a few things from Andy:

One upside to the kids growing up: Abby is one year closer to appreciate this kind of writing [11].

Can’t stop listening to this [12], and the rest of the family can’t stop listening to me listen to it, either.

This could be my Halloween costume this year [13].

An amazing piece of old-school reporting [14].

Want to get the kids excited to go play some soccer/take a spelling test/go to a piano/just go out and kick some butt in general? Try this [15]. How fun does that look?

Thank you, New York Times, for showing me that I am doing everything wrong [16] in the kitchen.

Of all the things I love about All Things Must Pass, the album cover is right up there at the top. Here’s the obituary of the man who shot it [17], along with a bunch of other iconic covers.

If The New Yorker would only post their articles for free, I could link here to the  latest David Sedaris essay, Memory Laps [18]. But they don’t, so I can’t. If you get the magazine, though, it’s a good one. We read aloud it to the kids, in our best public radio voices — for real — and they loved it.

Happy weekend!