At last, Rachelese!

I will forget all too quickly, so while I still remember, here is what Rachel is saying at 15 months. This is not an exhaustive list, merely the items I can remember at the moment. Mentally insert exclamation points at the end of everything; that's her usual tone:

Bah - ball
Babby - blankie or baby (she sometimes pronounces baby correctly, "beybee")
Badoo or bajoo - balloon
Banah or badah - banana
Moo - cow or moo
Wuh wuh wuh - dog or woof (often accompanied by panting)
Tee tah - Kitty cat (any feline, ferocious breeds included, often other similar looking animals like wolves)
Wada or Dadah - Water
Much - milk
Nigh nat - Night night (which to her might just mean she wants to nurse)
Nah nee - Natalie
Mamee - Mommy
Dadee or Datee - Daddy
No
Yeah
Noh - nose (more of a drawn out "no", with eyes focused and/or pointing to a nose)
Ai - eye(s)
Mau - mouth or meow, depending on context
H(y)ep, I nee h(y)ep - Help, Up or Down (command)
Doodoodoo! Leetherleetherleether! - favorite babbles
Natalie loves that Rachel is now talking, and she likes to giggle and say, "Rachel say that! Rachel say Nanee!"
Rachel definitely understands and communicates much more than what this word list would indicate. For example, she goes to the cabinet where I keep the girls' plates, cups and bowls, she picks up a cup and carries it to me saying "enh! enh! enh!" I ask, "You want water?" Rachel smiles and says "yeah!" and happily drinks when I give her a little water in the cup.
EDIT
Rachel just woke up and reminded me of more words that she knows:
sh or wish - fish (accompanied by ASL sign for fish, one of the few signs she produces, though she seems to understand several)
apoo - apple
aboo, abee - open (command, as in, "open this!")
wowuh - flower

Natalese 2.3

"That's a loud hickolay!" Natalie gleefully exclaimed one day as Rob hoisted her into the air from where we were sitting on the couch. She has said "hickolay" one or two more times, always in the context of horsing around, and we haven't been able to parse it yet. It's her word. I can only guess it has something to do with fun.

She's off and talking in sentences these days, and her cute little toddlerisms are fading fast, so I'd better write a few more down:

Phrases we hear all the time:

"No my blankie/sippy cup/dolly!"... etc. This means "don't touch my..." and she's usually saying it to Rachel, whether or not Rachel has even noticed the item in question.

"Mommy/Daddy do it!" (I don't want to/can't do it, I want you to do it for me)

"Openin it!"
"Runninin!" (-in seems to be her command suffix. This means, "Run, Mommy!", when I'm pushing the jogging stroller.)

"I need my Piper!" (her best friend)

"Mommy got purple toes!" (Mommy has purple toenails.)

"I'm okay," when she falls down and doesn't get upset.

"I'm scared!!!" when she is scared, pretty often this week for some reason.

Some unique ones:

"Mommy get down me, please!" (phrasal verbs are tough, obviously)

"I an elephant!" She said this she held a foam letter I in her mouth, pretending it was a trunk. I thought it was very imaginative.

She's even deeper into pretend play now, acting like an ant, fox, doggie, or pretending to ride a giraffe or monkey (riding on the 30-pack of toilet paper). She still babies her stuffed animals and dolls and even blankets. She says "You okay, baby? Sorry 'bout that!" if one of her toys falls down.

I think I've said it before, but it bears repeating: I love this age! I'll take the whining, tantrums and other frustrations, because the cool parts are so incredibly cool.