It's been a while...

Luca's second year of life is starting out great. Fall is here, our favorite season. Luca wakes up each morning and points to the record player, grunting and whining until we put on music. Some of his favorite records are Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy, The Beatles' Revolver, Chopin Polonnaises, Handel's Water Music...

After a month of terrible teething symptoms with a major sleep regression (back to waking crying every two hours), Luca has THREE new teeth cutting through (one being a molar!!).

He loves waving and saying "bye", saying "boom" when he throws things, and pointing to various facial features while we say their names (or finding face parts when we ask him). He is getting pretty good at using a fork and spoon. He loves giving kisses to family members and to his special friends, Danielle and Leo. Every morning I wake up to him looking at my face or giving me a big wet kiss!

Speaking of Danielle, she has taken some great pictures of Luca lately. My camera is broken and has been for several months, meaning the only photos I have are from the iPhone. Leo and Luca have lots of play dates together, for fun or for building houses.

They did this all by themselves:

Photo by Danielle.

This is the Luca we know!

Photo by Danielle.


Photo by Danielle.


Photo by Danielle.

Luca eating black beans from Elmo's, his favorite food:


Luca's first pumpkin! Though it's his second Halloween.


The first Halloween, he was too little to do anything. This year, we plan to take him to HallowEno, at the Eno River!

Brushing his teeth:


Luca loves looking at himself in the iPhone.