One of the things that my doctor mentioned earlier this week was that each week we keep this tiny person in her current home, the better and more optimistic everyone will be. So when I mentioned that each time I went to the High Risk Doctors the stories seemed better and better, she felt like that was GOOD news, but also to be expected.

This week we did some measurements (apparently to estimate “weight” of a tiny kiddo they take 4 different measurements) to see how Sparky is growing. Luckily, she’s up to 3lbs 4oz – and at 31 weeks that’s a pretty decent weight. By eyeballing the ultrasound measurements when they were taken, her percentile is still pretty low (20%’s etc), so I think she’s just going to be a tiny tiny human, but PROGRESS is what we were hoping for, and that is what appears to be happening. Her fluid is still low, but hasn’t gotten lower, and isn’t in the scary range. The doctor overall was pleased that she was doing well – and he was happy to see these positive moves. Of course, not happy ENOUGH to release me, but that’s okay. I’m glad to have someone telling me positive things weekly. He also mentioned shooting for at least 36 weeks before she gets evicted from her current digs – so I have to start wrapping my head around this kid being an March/April baby instead of an April/ May one.

My blood pressure homework is still looking good – pretty regular numbers most of the time. Hopefully all this will be good news for my regular doctor. Kiddo was moving around all over the place this morning, which the High Risk doctor also said was good news. She continues to breathe in her little aquarium, too, which is good.

Now for what everyone REALLY wanted to hear about – Cookie Quest 2017 has finally come to a close. After trying more and more and more cookies (so many cookies that I kinda don’t want any more of them ever again), a winner was found.

It turns out that THE COOKIE was actually a Cookies By Design/Cookie Bouquet cookie that was provided for me at the baby shower this weekend by my dear friend Laura. I happily took a bite and said “Yep, there it is. Perfect.” The boyfriend tried it (along with all the other “not quite” cookies), and nodded “yep, that’s pretty good” and my mom tried it and immediately said “Morgen, this is terrible! This is totally tasteless! It tastes like hard cardboard! There’s no flavor! This is OBVIOUSLY a pregnancy problem.” We both laughed. But that was the ORIGINAL issue – all the other cookies tasted far too much like…. cookies? They were too sweet. They had too much almond in them. They were too…. good? So if you provided a cookie that was delicious, or suggested a cookie that was tasty, don’t take it personally that Cardboard Cookie was actually what I was looking for all along.

In other news, Girl Scout Cookies should not be lumped into any of these notes and I’ve had to cram all of mine in the freezer to stop myself from inhaling them by the box. But, I may be ready to say that I’m just about over all the sweets – which is far more of Non-Pregnant-Morgen thing to say. I’ve always been a pizza girl anyway.