Cookie Trial and 19 Weeks Now

I tried making those cookies.  I got them to work pretty well and they taste great, but I had second thoughts about it.  The cake ball part was small enough with enough cookie around it that you didn't always bite right into the cake part and you could even eat the whole cake ball part without biting into it at all, that means you would miss the whole point, the pink or blue filling.  Here is a pic of my version of the cookie.

So I think I will just make some larger cake balls covered in a chocolate coating so you have to bite right into them and reveal the secret inside.  Let me tell you though the cake recipe I used is super easy and, um, sooo good.  I'll have to post it at the end of this or something.

So I am now 19 weeks.  I am definitely showing, but not all that large.  I am experiencing light heartburn.  It seems not to matter much what I eat and is more related to the time of day.  I am trying to get that under control and eating smaller meals and what not.  Tums seems to help I just don't want to over do it with that.  I hear this means the baby has hair, I guess we'll see.

This week our baby is starting to bulk up and pack on the fat.  Also the white coating that protects a baby's skin from the amniotic fluid, Vernix, is appearing all over it's body.  Under that a fuzzy layer of hair called lanugo covers the body. I guess this all falls off - a little gross.  Our baby's kidneys are fully functioning and producing urine this week too.

He or she now weighs about 8½ ounces and measures 6 inches.  Is that all?  Still seems so small really.
My belly seems to be about 40 inches around, although it is hard to know if you are measuring in the same place each time and I did it over my tank top... still getting bigger from the 34 I think I started at or was when we first measured. 

Simple White Cake
from Allrecipes.com

Ingredients

• 1 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 cup milk

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x9 inch pan or line a muffin pan with paper liners.
2. In a medium bowl, cream together the sugar and butter. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine flour and baking powder, add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Finally stir in the milk until batter is smooth. Pour or spoon batter into the prepared pan.
3. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven. For cupcakes, bake 20 to 25 minutes. Cake is done when it springs back to the touch.