I have loved all of Tabby's stages in their own way. Even the really hard first month where all I did was sit in a single chair in our bedroom and nurse her (and watch Law & Order) … even the cutting-four-teeth-at-one-time stage. So take it with a grain of salt when I tell you how very much I'm enjoying her at this age.
What I'm enjoying right now is her personality emerging in an even bigger way. We're really getting to see her likes and dislikes and the way her mind works. She's very capable of communication now and able to mimic just about any word (with varying degress of accuracy). Matt and I speak the best Tabbese, of course, but most adults can make some sense of what she says. We've worked hard in instilling the manner words in her and so she says “peeeese” just about every time she wants something and it's killing – you try refusing a request at that age when the kid says please. And she will occasionally say an unprompted thank you as well.
She's really gotten into different activities lately. She's loving her art stuff … we use mostly the Color Wonder markers so I don't have to hover and make certain she doesn't draw on what she's not supposed to, but when we had time this weekend, she did some supervised painting (as shown). She's also hugely into “coo-king” with us. She loves to watch us chop and mix and the rest and ever since last week when I let her stir up the cornbread for the cornbread dressing, that is what she has referred to as “coo-king.” Mother of the year as I am, I even let her give a few things on the stove a stir (with hovering supervision) because she was so into it. That freaking stool is the best $130 I've ever spent.
She's 21 months on Thursday and I can hardly believe it. I am so looking forward to Christmas with her … it's going to be something else.
You can go ahead and add “4 day weekends” to that “What I'm Thankful For List.” Geez we needed that. I had no idea how much!! 
We were spectacularly boring this weekend. I started to write about it, but my eyes glazed over about halfway through and I just couldn't do it. So I'll show you this photo of Tabby I took last weekend just after we did our Christmas Card shoot at a local park. 
It's getting to be LATE November and still no snow to speak of. This is getting weird, people! We usually have at least a decent snow by now … and still nothing. Usually I want the white stuff for skiing, but they do not advocate women in a family way do the skiing thing, so I am looking for it for another reason: I want to get snowed in. 
Miss Tabby has found a new love: tea. As the weather has gotten colder, I've been drinking more tea and in her quest to find out about the world and everything in it, she asks as usual, “What's that?” So I tell her it's tea. She wants some so I give her a sip (I drink herbal teas). Now she asks for it. And she is very patient about the tea ritual, because tea doesn't happen like juice … we put the kettle on. She points to the tea drawer (we have an entire drawer, 1'x2' or bigger dedicated to storing various varieties of tea) and she picks out her tea. I notice she leans towards the pink boxes (raspberry, strawberry).