On Talking 16 Month Old Babies

This whole talking baby thing is such a foreign concept to me, as Dex didn't talk at all til he was almost two.  But Erin has a lot to say about everything, and while most of it is babbling gibberish she actually has some understandable words.  Behold the list of words the baby has mastered:

Hi
Mama.  Incessantly.  All the time.  Always with the Mama.  Between her and Dex, meal time is a sea of "Mamas"
Daddy
Dexter.  Kind of.  It's kind of more like Deh-ehr.  And she doesn't say it often.
Book.
Ball.
BOO!
Cheese.  It sounds like Che.  She has, occasionally, used this same word for Aunt Jeanne.  That's my girl.  She also calls pizza "che."  Perhaps because that's the only part she eats off the pizza.
Cracker.  It sounds like Ba-ger
Apple.  It sounds like Bapple
Shoe.  It sounds like Shhh.  Or, sometimes, Ooosh.
This.  Is sound like Dis
That.  It sounds like Dat
Eye
Truck.  It sounds like Buck
She says "T" for teeth and for toes.  Not really a word yet.  But close.
Uh-oh.  A popular word in the house.  Both children find it hysterical.

She has animal sounds:
Woof for a dog
Whistle to call Buddy (mostly she just blows out of her mouth.  "Mama?  Phhhhhhhh."  That means "Mama, please call Buddy over here so I can giggle and try to hide from him.")
An under her breath "meow" for a cat
Blowing a raspberry for a horse
Baaa for a sheep
Moo for a cow
La-la-la for a pig (thanks, Sandra Boynton)

Sleeping in Buddy's bed.  Oh, yes.  She also does a snoring sound.

And, finally, her newest word:
Mahna-manah

What?, you say.  Yes.  I know.  Please watch the video below to have the Mahna-Manah song stuck in YOUR head for all of eternity.  Both kids have watched it.  Both kids find it hilarious.  Both kids sing the song all day long.

At Erin's 15 month well visit a few weeks ago (she was 16 months old) she was 32.5 inches tall.  92nd percentile for girls.  She was 21.2 pounds, which is 44th percentile for girls.

She finally got all four molars in.  That only took a week of waking up in the middle of the night screaming.  She just (like 2 days ago) barely broke through one of her bottom teeth, on the left side.  Still no sign of a bottom tooth to the right of the middle.  But something is going on in there, because she slept for crap again last night, too.  Damn teeth.

Some day soon she is going to be speaking in sentences.  And we will never shut her up.