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He sounds like he is on-track, but maybe on the lower end of normal. I know parents and caregivers are also often encouraged to look at development on the whole. So if your child is very physical, it's also likely that they have been focusing more energy on that, and so language might not be as advanced for age. What does your pediatrician say? I always feel that if you have concerns it is a great idea to go through EI. If they find something of note, you can start getting services which often make a very significant difference. If nothing is wrong, you have the peace of mind of knowing that someone who is trained to look for developmental delays has given a thorough assessment and sees no cause for concern. Ellie was very delayed in speech (had only mama and up at her first year appointment, and had only three words at 18 months (and then regressed to only one) and then by age three was on track). Now she has an amazing vocabulary. She didn't get any services. I think *I* would have felt better after an evaluation, though. I was really concerned for a long time.

That sounds pretty close to L! She's 14 months, and zero words. I think she tries to mimic 'uh oh' and 'hello' sometimes, but it's not consistent.
She doesn't have a ton of vowels that she uses, mostly 'dadadada' (but not in reference to DH) and 'vvvvv'.
She'll point sometimes, but not like she's asking me for something. It's like she's just doing it for fun, she'll walk around pointing
No head shaking
Comprehension of "No' and 'Bye Bye' is slim, but it looks to be slowly improving

I'd say just in the last couple weeks has she even been understanding of commands/statements (where's your lion, bring Mommy your socks, Daddy's home, etc), and it's only with words she's VERY familiar with, that we work with her a lot on.

I was kind of worried for a while, but she's an observer (Fringe anyone?? Haha ), so she likes to watch and have a really good grasp on things before she does them herself (walking, crawling, sitting, etc)

I'm pretty sure DS was about that point at 12 months. I thought he was behind because we were in playgroup with some kids that were more advanced (for example pointing at and saying "bubble"). The doctor has not been concerned and he is definitely learning new things every day. Because of this I am not worrying about it. At 18 months he is pointing at everything and saying "What's that?" ALL DAY LONG. He also has finally started waving consistently. He could do it before but it was sporadic or only after people walked away. I think language development is often a bit slower for boys, especially if they develop other areas early. If his doctor is not worried and he is on track with everything else I would try not to stress about it.

I second Mrs. Twine in feeling that he sounds like he is on track and he is still so young but EI is free, they do a lot of follow up and can be very helpful in getting more out of him or keeping an eye on his progress as they are doing with my son. In my sons case its more about attention and language is normal but he was around where your son is now when he was your sons age and a lot of language started coming in between 15 and 18 months. He sounds like a wonderful boy. good luck!

@Mrs Green Grass: oh i just saw you posted that above. That is great! It also probably makes sense for a preemie like he is to be a bit later to the game with some of this stuff. He sounds like he is covered and doing great.