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By Erik Rasmussen

Crouton payload

Crouton payload

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Enough with the milestones already

Chomp, chomp

Seriously, three years old?

Here’s Alek describing his birthday in his own words:

“And then there was a cake! Yeah, and presents! And I, ATE THE CAKE! I pushed it all into my mouth, and then it went down into my belly, and then it was [sad clown voice] ALL GONE… But then I was [...]

Insert belabored Christmas pun here

Stand still for one Christly second, will you?

If your own personal paper version of this has not yet reached your presumably holly-decked halls, feel free to blame the Bulgarian postal service, and/or us. While the photo session that ultimately produced this card was held before the snow flew, the actual producing, writing, and mailing [...]

Well, thank god for that

Fortunately, not forced to choose

Did I mention crab salad? CRAB SALAD. With Old Bay Seasoning courtesy of Jane, that’s crab salad.

The debate rages on about who loves who(m) more. When I say “All the way,” Magda wants to know how far that is. All the way where? “To the Crab Nebula,” I reply. “And back.”

“How far is that?”

[Two Googly [...]

Off to the north

We’re off to the north for what Adam fervently hopes will be a white Christmas. Whether Santa will put in an appearance is contingent upon a certain skinny elf’s airplane comportment. Just to be safe, we scattered some white around the place, produced our own Santa-like homunculus, and broke out the camera.

Jolly Old Saint Nick [...]

Another best year…

…the third one in a row.

I never liked the guy, either

Me: What are you making, honey?
Magda: I wanted to make some pickled pumpkin.
Me: You know, I seem to have heard that Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pumpkin.
Magda: Did he?
Me: Yes.
Magda: Jerk.

Extreme cross-reference: Bo Peep

Chatty

UPDATED to add:

Good enough for the Aztecs

Loathsome to such as are not acquainted with it…they make diverse sorts of [chocolate], some hot, some cold, and some temperate, and put therein much of that “chili”; yea, they make paste thereof, the which they say is good for the stomach and against the catarrh.

–Jose de Acosta, Jesuit missionary [via Wikipedia's History of Chocolate]

Only a test

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