Fa, fa, fa, fa, fa

Zoe has made some huge developmental advancements since she got over feeling crappy when she had roseloa. She's talking almost non-stop during the day. She's picking up new words sometimes having only heard them once or twice. One day last week, I counted her saying 5 new words.

The last couple of days she has been saying "eye-Da". I'm not sure what it means but I think it's a declarative statement. I believe that the "eye" is "I", just can't figure out what "Da" is. Maybe she is saying something like "I am", or it might be her trying to pronounce "Zoe". She says it very loud and forcefully over and over again. I can't find any context for the phrase. We thought it might be "I want", "I have", "outside" or "olive" but it doesn't seem to be any of these.
Zoe is also saying "mama" and "dada" all the time now. I love that!

She's been trying to tell us about things that happened in the past. This week there was a huge thunderstorm that came through the area around 3am. It woke her up and she couldn't go back to sleep for an hour or so. The thunder and lighting were continuous and the wind was so strong that the front door to our apartment was banging - it sounded like someone was trying to get in. The next day I was changing her diaper and she made the sounds for sleep "fa, fa, fa, fa" and then pointed to her ear, and then made a loud noise. She was telling me that she heard loud noises while she was sleeping last night. It's a bit like playing charades.

Another funny story from last week. As I mentioned, Zoe says "fa, fa, fa, fa" because that's the sounds that Daddy makes when he's pretending to sleep. We were in the car going to dinner and the Talking Heads' song "Psycho Killer" came on. If you don't know the song, the chorus goes like this:

Psycho killer, que'st que c'est?
Fa, fa, fa, fa, fa, fa, fa, fa, fa, fa, far
better Run away

Well we told Zoe that they were singing about going to sleep and she thought that was just hilarious. She still giggles uncontrollably every time I put the song on.