21 months

This is a hard one to write. I feel like the major developmental milestones are further apart now, so there's not a long list of changes each month anymore. That being said, here's some new stuff.

We tried to see Santa a week ago. What I mean to say is that we went to see Santa, I held Luca while he looked at Santa and smiled at Santa, and as soon as I moved him lapward, he started screaming. But Santa was very nice and gave him a little stuffed penguin. Once I was again holding him Luca (through tears) told him bye. Now he picks up that penguin and says "ho ho ho." At first I thought he thought that's what penguins say, but if you ask him he does a version of that tickle laugh that penguins do, so he just remembers it was from Santa.
When he was last weighed he came in at 24 lbs, been hovering around the 10-12 percentile for a while, I think.

Cheesing, eating lunch with an ice cream scoop

He has started putting together two word phrases, "up mama," "bath daddad," "more crack." (He calls crackers "crack" and obviously I'm not correcting him.) He is using "real" words a lot more and babbling a lot less. Which is frustrating for me because I know he's trying to tell me something, he'll stare at me and repeat the same word again and again, but I have no idea what he's saying.
He loves "Itsy bitsy Spider" but always starts at "down came the rain" and mostly just does that one line a lot. And he's so sweet, we rock for a little bit before he goes to sleep, and sometimes I sing and sometimes I don't. If I'm not singing and Luca wants me to he starts singing while his sweet little head is laying on my shoulder. When I get to the end of a song and stop, if he wants and encore he'll start singing again. I just love it. Currently the rotation is Silent Night, Away in a Manger, and of course The Gambler by fun.
My mom found a keyboard in the basement that my Grandpa gave us years and years ago and thought Luca might enjoy it. Oh my goodness, we're getting this kid piano lessons as soon as it's appropriate. He spreads his hands out on the keys and uses his thumb and pinky at the same time and alternating and gets the black keys too and just looks like he knows what he's doing. Plus sometimes he sings while he plays.

We are very excited for Christmas, I have no idea what Luca is going to do. We opened a gift from his god parents early, and he took the present to the rug, sat down and opened it, then put the tissue paper back in the now empty bag and put it back under the tree. He hasn't bothered any of the other presents under the tree. When we tell him he can keep opening he's either going to get overwhelmed or go crazy and start opening everyone elses. We'll see!

As an aside, Luca is currently in the bath. We have a basket full of those foam letters that stick to the sides of the bathtub when they're wet. Luca picked out three letters, W, T and F. Ha.