We had a busy last week, lots of activity! Our biggest news is that Jason got his first EMT job! He had an interview last week with an ambulance company and was called back for a second interview this morning, and within 2 hours of the interview, they called him to offer him the job! Woo hoo! They like to hire new EMTs and help them to work toward getting a paramedic degree, so he'll be working 3 shifts a week while continuing to go to school. They also offer classes and workshops to help develop skills to get through school, all in hopes of keeping him in the company when he graduates. Very cool. He'll start where everyone starts, at the bottom of the totem pole, and will be driving sick people to their doctor's appts. He'll be running the place before long... :-)

Zoey is doing great -- still going 8 hours between feedings at night! Yeah! We went to another mom's group meeting last week and one of the other mothers mentioned that she "had a great home remedy for that thrush." (Thrush is a yeast overgrowth in baby's mouth, a fairly common problem in babies that looks like white patches on the tongue, palate or inside cheeks.) I immediately denied that she had thrush, explaining that I had just nursed her and it was milk on her tongue, not thrush! Not my baby! Then, after I got over myself, I came to terms with the possibility that she might indeed have thrush. We've been trying my friend's home remedy for the last several days, and it has gotten a lot better. Jason picked up some super-acidophilus for me today, and I will blitz that for the next 6 days and see if that does the trick. Thrush can be hard to get rid of, and with my sweet tooth, it's even harder -- yeast loves sugary breastmilk! I've pretty much cut sugar completely out of my diet, so hopefully we can get things back on track. That little girl is a powerful motivator for me to eat right...

We think that Zoey is losing her long dark hair. There is some short dark hair coming in underneath, so we'll see what that turns out like. No freckles yet, but I had another dream about them the other night... there's no chance this girl is getting away without freckles!

She's been holding up her head a lot more, getting very strong. She's starting to push off on her legs a lot more too, so we're encouraging that by letting her 'stand' on our hands while she leans forward onto our body for support. The third month is also when babies typically start to notice their hands, so she's spending more time sitting semi-upright in a bouncy seat or in our lap rather than laying flat on the floor so that she can find her hands better. She certainly is grabbing fistfuls of my hair better!

We had a wonderful, busy weekend with lots of visits with friends, a beautiful wedding, and a street fair with music and food. This week we'll have another meetup with our mom's group, a BBQ with friends... and mommy gets a massage on Wednesday! Hooray!