Congras - Day 27

Thirty Days of Toothy Tile, Grey Goose and the Baby Tiles

Day 27

Day 27 brings us a rare find on Facebook, a social medium which has been a vast wasteland of resource for the last several years (as far as Jake and Austin are concerned, anyway *wink*).  The FB comment was discovered by accident last June while on a lunch break at work and perusing past postings by Austin. 

There it was, nestled amongst the pleas and murmurings of "Marry me", "Hot" and "So cute".

The comment was dated January 3, 2016 at 9:40pm.  Margie Nicholson entered her congratulations on a Facebook entry from Austin that was dated from December 26, 2015 and was merely an "Added Photo" post.  In other words, his post contained no other written content, except to add the following picture:

 At the time that Margie Nicholson posted her "congras", this entry was the most current entry on Austin's Facebook page.  He did not make another post until the next day, January 4.  So Margie was sending her congratulations to Austin on the latest post which would have been at the top of his page.


After Narnia Dispatches posted a write-up following the discovery on June 7 [ see Belated Congras! - It's a Girl! For Toothy Tile and Grey Goose  ],  the blog next door aka WFT2 began a campaign to try to argue that Margie Nicholson had meant to post on the Facebook page of an "Austin Nicholson", a young man who not only bore no physical resemblance to Austin Don Nichols, but lived in Arkansas and had not spoken of even visiting New York City.


via GIPHY


Please refer to the post "Belated Congras!" and its comments because in those comments M&M and I go into further detail on why we found this 'congras' so credible.  We take a look at Jake's sudden small flurry of medical/doctor building visits late in 2015 which would have been prior to the baby's birth.  We also take a look at the "msbccg Instagram" stunt which took place in December of 2015 which no doubt was used to help disguise the birth of another Baby Tile.

And once again, look at who helped to place Jake in New York City on December 22 that same year in an IHJ photo album which consisted of 43 pictures entitled "Out With a Friend in New York City" - Greta Caruso:

Pretending to be pestered and annoyed..

The discovery of another birth in December 2015 for Jake and Austin after a four-year "stork break" seemed to be a stronger signal than ever that the two men were still together, solid and getting quite the hang of that "family state" of being.

pic/image sources:  Facebook, I Heart Jake, Giphy
our playlist:  Baby, I Love You - The Ronettes
                     Family of Man - Three Dog Night
                     We Are Family - Sister Sledge

                   

Just Wonderin' - Day 6

Thirty Days of Toothy Tile, Grey Goose and the Baby Tiles

Day 6

In the pictures of Jake leaving/arriving at the medical building dated September 4, one small detail is nearly easy to miss.  Of course, with Mr. G looking quite fetching, important details can easily and carelessly become casualties.  

Okay, hold on.  Let's back it up for a minute.  What's he got in his hand in the first several snaps, a parking ticket?  Perhaps a written prescription? 

The size of the paper in Jake's hand looks quite similar to that of an ultrasound.  In addition, this photo series was taken in what would be the 8th month.  If a third trimester sonogram is taken, size, position and movement are checked, as well as for any possible complications.    A link to the whole set:  source

The timing is right.  The appearance is spot on.  The location is on the money. What do you think?


via GIPHY 


*wink*


pic sources:  IHJ
our playlist:  Photograph - Ringo Starr
                     Video Killed the Radio Star - Boggles

Doctor's Orders - Day 4

Thirty Days of Toothy Tile, Grey Goose and the Baby Tiles

Day 4

In today's Hollywood stork world, telltale "baby bumps" seem to make their debut at 5 months, 7 months, or sometimes not until it's about time for the one year check-up (see: Ryan Gosling - nah, just exaggerating a tad, lol.) In October 2007, Jake officially began a public "romantic relationship" with actress Reese Witherspoon, stepping out with a piggyback ride, lots of pointing at who-knows-what touristy sights, and some snuggly strolling.  While everyone was busy oggling, ooh'ing and aah'ing at the marvel of Jake being in a high profile, Grade A relationship, he was simultaneously beginning the slow roll-out of what would become a near-ritual over the next six and a half years - that of frequent doctor and medical building visits.   

Following are all of Jake's medical/doctor building visits from 2007 through 2015.  Remember, Jake didn't make his bombastic and official "move" to New York City until 2012, which is why you will notice the publicly documented appearances taper off.  But until that time, he was a California boy and as is the Jake-way, these visits were accompanied with plenty of photos. Also, keep in mind that Baby Tile #1 was born on October 17, 2007.


• April 4, 2007 - Leaving Beverly Hills doctor's office
• April 17, 2007 - Leaving a doctor's office in Beverly Hills
• Sept 4, 2007 - Visiting a medical office in LA
• Nov 8, 2007 - Visiting a medical office in LA

• Nov 13, 2007 - Visiting a medical building in Beverly Hills 


• Jan 16, 2008 - Leaving a medical center in Beverly Hills
• Feb 15, 2008 - Leaving a medical center in Beverly Hills
• Mar 18, 2008 - Leaving a medical center in Beverly Hills
• Mar 19, 2008 - Leaving doctor's office on crutches in LA


• Jan 9, 2009 - Leaving a medical center in Beverly Hills 
                        out of 27 pics, only one shows Reese in the car
• Jan 21, 2009 - Leaving a medical center in Beverly Hills
• Feb 27, 2009 - Leaving a medical center in Beverly Hills
• Mar 4, 2009 - Leaving a medical center in Beverly Hills
• Mar 25, 2009 - Leaving a medical center in Beverly Hills

• Mar 27, 2009 - Leaving a medical center in Beverly Hills
• Apr 07, 2009 - Leaving a medical center in Beverly Hills
• Apr 20, 2009 - Leaving a medical center in Beverly Hills
• Apr 22, 2009 - Leaving a medical center in Beverly Hills
• Sep 02, 2009 - Leaving a medical center in Beverly Hills


• Jan 05, 2010 - At a medical center in Beverly Hills
• Jan 29, 2010 - At a medical in Beverly Hills  (this is the visit
       from this post called Big Smile Ahead  )
• Apr 23, 2010 - Leaving a medical center in Beverly Hills
• Jun 22, 2010 - Leaving a medical center in Beverly Hills
• June 23, 2010 - Leaving a medical center in Beverly Hills

                 

• Nov 3, 2010 - At a medical center in Beverly Hills
                         (outside and then inside the garage)

• Nov 4, 2010 - Leaving a medical building in Beverly Hills

 • January 28, 2011 - Leaving a medical center in Beverly Hills
• May 17, 2011 - Visiting a medical center in Beverly Hills
• May 27, 2011 - Visiting a medical center in Beverly Hills
• Jun 24, 2011 - Visiting a medical center in Beverly Hills
• Jul 05, 2011 - Visiting a medical center in Los Angeles

• Aug 05, 2011 - Visiting a medical center in Beverly Hills
• Dec 16, 2011 - Visiting a medical center in Beverly Hills

           

• Jan 12, 2012 - Leaving a doctor's office in Los Angeles
• Jan 20, 2012 - Visiting a medical  center in Beverly Hills

• Jan 23, 2012 - Arriving at a medical building in Beverly Hills
• May 11, 2012 - Visiting a medical center in Beverly Hills

• Aug 12 2013 - Visiting a medical center in Beverly Hills
• Aug 13, 2013 - Visiting a medical center in Beverly Hills

    

• Nov 15, 2013 - Visiting a medical building in Beverly Hills

   

• Aug 24, 2015 - Visiting a doctor's office in Beverly Hills

• Oct 2, 2015 - Leaving a doctor's office in Beverly Hills
• Oct 3, 2015 - Visiting a medical building in Beverly Hills

• Nov 11, 2015 - Visiting a medical building in Beverly Hills 
                          w/shoutout to Austin in Chicago Bulls cap

• [Note in 2015, Jake made trips that we know of to Los Angeles in 
  January, April, and July, plus two times in September after the  
  August 24 doctor's office photo op. This despite the narrative that
  he was a transplant to NYC.]


Whew!  That's a lot of doctor's office and medical center visits, isn't it?

On the blog Oh My Godot, when an observation was made that the doctor visits seemed to follow a regular pattern, the following reply was made from an "anonymous" voice:

we are family said...
"The doctor visits seem to occur in a regular pattern."

Jake is visiting that same medical building for years, long before BT talk.
source 

To which I had replied:

And so out of curiosity, I just paid a visit to IHJ (comprensive online site for all Jake Gyllenhaal pictures throughout his entire career) and went through all of Paparazzi Pictures (for the years of) 2004, 2005, and 2006 and found no medical building visit pictures.
May 29, 2010 at 10:51pm (ET)

And after further review, there were no photo op pictures of Jake visiting any medical or doctor's office/building during 2000 through 2003 either. 

So I believe that makes "we are family"s reply boldly inaccurate. LOL!


No, the medical office visits correlate with Ted Casablanca's post about Toothy and Grey Goose's plans for beginning a family.

Turns out T2, so blab our mutual amigos, plans on swirling up his love juice, right alongside his boyfriend's procreating protein, ya know, putting it in some kinda beaker or toaster, or something, and mixing it around with a donor's eggs, then putting the results into yet another donor to carry the resulting embryo.  - Ted Casablanca, March 15, 2007.


Now we can look back and see how real-time Ted was posting this heads-up just prior to the paparazzi'd captures which would appear on an almost regular basis on I Heart Jake.

From 2007 through December 2015, this is what Jake did, while Austin was working regularly on One Tree Hill as the character, Julian Baker.  These visits to medical buildings and offices took place in Los Angeles; they did not carry over into New York City beginning in 2012, when Jake "moved" to the Big Apple. There are only four visits in 2012, three in 2013, and none in 2014. But in 2015?  Notice there was an out-of-the-blue flurry of medical building visits in October and November.

But no visits since that time, most likely because Jake and Austin are taking a breather, I mean finished having children.  One might hope, I mean presume, anyway.

So, why all of the visits in the state of California?  Why not New York City since 2012?  

Undoubtedly, the Baby Tiles were born in California due to the state's very friendly surrogacy laws.  As someone termed it, the state of California is the Cadillac of venues to have a surrogacy birth.  

 

•  California allows commercial surrogacy, as well as regularly reinforces contracts with regard to gestational surrogacy. In addition, the state makes it possible for all intended parents - regardless of their marital status and/or their sexual orientation - to establish legal parental rights prior to the actual birth of their child (or children), as well as without the need to go through proceedings for adoption.  source

 

• The laws in California are very clear as to the requirement for intended parents to establish their parentage before the baby’s birth. With the aid of an attorney, a series of steps must be taken in order to file a copy of the surrogacy agreement in a court of law. Once this has been completed, records of the agreement will be sealed except to the intended parents, the gestational carrier, the attorneys of both parties, and the state’s Department of Social Services.

source 

Commercial surrogacy is defined as:  "...the term generally refers to any surrogacy arrangement in which the surrogate mother is compensated for her services beyond reimbursement of medical expenses."  source    

For a couple such as Jake and Austin, the plan of having a family will come at a cost.  With both men being celebrities and high wage earners, it's unrealistic to believe a surrogate is going to carry a baby 9 months, hand him/her over and expect nothing more than paid medical bills and a hug of thanks.  And for a couple who fell so hard for one another, one would expect their desire for a family to include elimination of legal risks and the peace of mind that the children to be born will be theirs forever and carrying their names.

The financial, legal and contractual details may have well been the easiest part of starting a family for Jake and Austin.  

They're a world my world revolves around

My sacred piece of solid ground

The flesh and bone that gives me strength to stand

They are a fire in my drivin' on

The drive behind my comin' home

The livin', breathin' reason I am

A family man

Family Man - Craig Campbell

Songwriters: Joel Eric Shoemake, Jon Henderson, Craig Campbell

pic sources:  I Heart Jake
our playlist:  Doctor's Orders - Carol Douglas
                     Bless the Beasts and the Children - The Carpenters
                     Family Man -  Craig Campbell

Caution: Big Smile Ahead at the Medical Building

I don't know about you all, but I generally am not smiling a whole lot anywhere near a medical/doctor's building, lol.  But in a Tuesday Turnback, let's revisit January 29 2010 in a short video that was uploaded onto YouTube a few days later on Feb 2.  Here is Jake Gyllenhaal "at" a medical center, and looking none too unhappy about it.  

 Bummer; video looks to have been deleted.  😱  Here are a few stills (courtesy of IHJ) 

What or who was in that van that made Jake linger (even walk) alongside and smile so brightly, even for a few moments after the van had driven on?   

A great looking movie script?  Another puggle puppy?  Austin Nichols striking a pose, pretzel-like in the backseat?  How about cashmere upholstery? ;-)

Maybe it would help to paint a micro Baby Tile timeline.  We know that Baby Tile No. 1 was born on October 17, 2007.  Clues point towards twins being born in late, late 2008 / early 2009 (if not twins, then at least one baby seems highly likely)  Could it have been a year's check up, a few weeks off schedule?  Maybe one of the kiddos had the sniffles?

Fun to speculate now after having watched so much unfold in the years since.  I myself think there was one, maybe two Baby Tiles in the back seat.  Jake peers too long into the van and that smile is unlike any smile we see these days.

It's like seeing the footprints of Bigfoot, isn't it?  Crop circles in the corn fields?  So close and yet....so far.  ;-)

 


pic source:  IHJ
our playlist:  Baby Love - Regina
                     Smile - (karaoke version - Uncle Kracker version