I got the camera out to take a picture of Cara's best vegan cake yet. I don't recall ever hearing my mother sing, but I guess she must have when I was a child. At any rate, Cara somehow inveigled my mother to sing Happy Birthday to Jake. Pictured above is Cara's reaction as she, for the first time, learned from where I got my notoriously bad singing voice. As my mother pointed out, her mother and brother and sister all had fine singing voices--so why did we get the mutant tone deaf gene? Well, at least my mother tried, and it really did seem to make Jake's day happy.