Tuesday, February 24, 2009
my hands are shrinking, according to my cousin jeff...
so according to my wise and esteemed cousin, jeff, my hands are shrinking. if you notice in the weekly belly shots, my hands are covering my boobs in most of them...clearly it's my hands shrinking because my boobs could not possibly be getting that big. thank you for clearing that up jeff. what a relief...
West Coast McBaby Shower Tour '09
Well, time for some updates people!! It's been a crazy month for Daddy Jazz and Mama Jazz and of course the beloved Mcbaby. February was baby shower month and Tobias wanted to make sure we had everything taken care of well in advance, this is Tobi we are talking about here people. Tobi wanted to be comfortable and for the most part she wanted to be able to walk, touche! Because Tobi has a group of friends and family the size of a small village (pun intended) we had multiple showers to attend.
Enter: West Coast McBaby Shower Tour '09
(tour shirts will be available for purchase on the blog soon!!)
Tour Dates:
February 7th 2009 Location: West Coast Dance Academy, Mission Viejo
February 21st 2009 Location: Peterson Proper, Lafayette
February 22nd 2009 Location: McCahan Manor, La Selva Beach
Like all good rock bands we had to start the tour off with a bang in our home county. With the help of our trusty roadies, Grandma and Grandpa Becerra, Auntie Nichol, Auntie A and Jordan, Jenny and the beautiful West Coast Dance Academy, we had a wonderful shower filled with tons of love, tasty tacos and unbelievable cake! The beer chugging challenge was the highlight of the shower, to this date no one knows who won, but the only thing that really matters is that everyone had a good time chugging beer from a baby bottle. You cant have a Becerra-Sondgroth baby shower without baby bottle beer chugging. We just have to say thank you to everyone that attended and showered us with love and inspiration, we love you all!
After an amazing open to our West Coast Tour, we headed north to the bay area to close out the tour with back to back showers. We packed up the tour bus and headed north on highway 5. Like all tours, we had some fun on the road together, because the road is hard and the road is tough, so you gotta pass the time with lots of laughs and adventures. At about 1:30 in the afternoon on February 21st just south of Chaney Ranch (no relation to Dick!) we rescued a sheep from instant death after the poor thing had jumped over a fence and was wondering aimlessly on the side of the south bound 5 freeway. We tried our hardest to round up Bawwwbie the sheep, but we were not quick enough. We contacted CHP to let them know of the situation at hand, according to cousin Ian who was an hour behind us, the CHP hand arrived to save the day. Disclaimer: no sheep were injured during the West Coast McBaby Shower Tour '09.
We arrived at Peterson Proper ready to rock, with only three hours to rehearse and tune up. Our trusty roadies, Linda Lee, Ben, Katie, Will the Grill a.k.a this guy knows how to party Peterson, Kenny P and Sammykins all put forth their best efforts to make this shower a hit. The original plan for the shower events, other than the fabulous party atmosphere provided by the Peterson's, was a blessing of the belly. Auntie Ashley was going to conduct a special blessing incorporating all of the attendees. Unfortunately Auntie Ashley had a late night arrival after being with her family after Great Uncle Gary suffered a heart attack, but luckily Great Uncle Gary is at home resting comfortably after triple bypass. So Auntie Ashley was not able to perform the blessing. Enter: Mr. Bill, no not Mr. Bill the play-dough mess of a man, but Bill Glenn the extraordinaire, leader of all things simply fabulous! Bill led the group in a vast array of song, poetry and simple blessings. The evening was amazing and the abundance of love was engulfing. Thank you Lafayette and good night!
February 22nd 2009 we start the final leg of the West Coast McBaby Shower Tour heading south in the pouring rain to La Selva Beach, McCahan Manor! We arrived still intoxicated by the previous night's electricity to find our trusty roadies Grandma Sukie, Grandpa Bobby, Grandma Rosie and great cousin Margaret had the show ready to go, no time to rehearse or tune up. Show Time! This would be a double headliner show, with not only one pregnant couple, but two. Who could have imagined the cousins, Tobias and Jennifer both being pregnant with due dates a day apart. It's almost as if they planned this pregnancy conspiracy. The shower included lots of tasty foods; pickles, olives, potato salad, veggies, chips and dips, fun & games and a detailed blogography quiz. Yes my friends a blogography quiz!! Courtesy of Jeff and Margaret, the blogography quiz was a blast, who knew people actually read our baby blog? Who spent all their waking hours studying the Little Jazzy Crumbsnatcher weblog thoroughly enough to get all the questions correct?.....no one! We did have plenty of top contenders, but no one more deserving then Grandpa Bobby. After a tandem gift opening session, which did include my new handy dandy power washer (it's a long story) we packed up the tour bus a long drive home on Sunday night. Heading south on highway 1, we realized that the short but sweet weekend filled with laughs, lots of amazing gifts for our blooming baby and a well filled with love, would probably be our last road trip together, alone, in peace......our lives would never be the same again.
Enter: West Coast McBaby Shower Tour '09
(tour shirts will be available for purchase on the blog soon!!)
Tour Dates:
February 7th 2009 Location: West Coast Dance Academy, Mission Viejo
February 21st 2009 Location: Peterson Proper, Lafayette
February 22nd 2009 Location: McCahan Manor, La Selva Beach
Like all good rock bands we had to start the tour off with a bang in our home county. With the help of our trusty roadies, Grandma and Grandpa Becerra, Auntie Nichol, Auntie A and Jordan, Jenny and the beautiful West Coast Dance Academy, we had a wonderful shower filled with tons of love, tasty tacos and unbelievable cake! The beer chugging challenge was the highlight of the shower, to this date no one knows who won, but the only thing that really matters is that everyone had a good time chugging beer from a baby bottle. You cant have a Becerra-Sondgroth baby shower without baby bottle beer chugging. We just have to say thank you to everyone that attended and showered us with love and inspiration, we love you all!
After an amazing open to our West Coast Tour, we headed north to the bay area to close out the tour with back to back showers. We packed up the tour bus and headed north on highway 5. Like all tours, we had some fun on the road together, because the road is hard and the road is tough, so you gotta pass the time with lots of laughs and adventures. At about 1:30 in the afternoon on February 21st just south of Chaney Ranch (no relation to Dick!) we rescued a sheep from instant death after the poor thing had jumped over a fence and was wondering aimlessly on the side of the south bound 5 freeway. We tried our hardest to round up Bawwwbie the sheep, but we were not quick enough. We contacted CHP to let them know of the situation at hand, according to cousin Ian who was an hour behind us, the CHP hand arrived to save the day. Disclaimer: no sheep were injured during the West Coast McBaby Shower Tour '09.
We arrived at Peterson Proper ready to rock, with only three hours to rehearse and tune up. Our trusty roadies, Linda Lee, Ben, Katie, Will the Grill a.k.a this guy knows how to party Peterson, Kenny P and Sammykins all put forth their best efforts to make this shower a hit. The original plan for the shower events, other than the fabulous party atmosphere provided by the Peterson's, was a blessing of the belly. Auntie Ashley was going to conduct a special blessing incorporating all of the attendees. Unfortunately Auntie Ashley had a late night arrival after being with her family after Great Uncle Gary suffered a heart attack, but luckily Great Uncle Gary is at home resting comfortably after triple bypass. So Auntie Ashley was not able to perform the blessing. Enter: Mr. Bill, no not Mr. Bill the play-dough mess of a man, but Bill Glenn the extraordinaire, leader of all things simply fabulous! Bill led the group in a vast array of song, poetry and simple blessings. The evening was amazing and the abundance of love was engulfing. Thank you Lafayette and good night!
February 22nd 2009 we start the final leg of the West Coast McBaby Shower Tour heading south in the pouring rain to La Selva Beach, McCahan Manor! We arrived still intoxicated by the previous night's electricity to find our trusty roadies Grandma Sukie, Grandpa Bobby, Grandma Rosie and great cousin Margaret had the show ready to go, no time to rehearse or tune up. Show Time! This would be a double headliner show, with not only one pregnant couple, but two. Who could have imagined the cousins, Tobias and Jennifer both being pregnant with due dates a day apart. It's almost as if they planned this pregnancy conspiracy. The shower included lots of tasty foods; pickles, olives, potato salad, veggies, chips and dips, fun & games and a detailed blogography quiz. Yes my friends a blogography quiz!! Courtesy of Jeff and Margaret, the blogography quiz was a blast, who knew people actually read our baby blog? Who spent all their waking hours studying the Little Jazzy Crumbsnatcher weblog thoroughly enough to get all the questions correct?.....no one! We did have plenty of top contenders, but no one more deserving then Grandpa Bobby. After a tandem gift opening session, which did include my new handy dandy power washer (it's a long story) we packed up the tour bus a long drive home on Sunday night. Heading south on highway 1, we realized that the short but sweet weekend filled with laughs, lots of amazing gifts for our blooming baby and a well filled with love, would probably be our last road trip together, alone, in peace......our lives would never be the same again.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Who Knew?
It's been a new learning experience, the joys of pregnancy! Awaiting fatherhood is like no other feeling on earth at least until the little bean is born. You can think about the day, for days, and wonder what you may feel the day you find out you'll soon be a father. But nothing ever prepares you. You realize, wow! I'm going to be father, but all the talk and excitement never really set in, until that first ultra sound, until your wife's belly begins to grow, until that little bean starts kicking the crap out of your wife's ribcage.
My dad and I spent Saturday morning in Babies R Us exchanging our changing table and he asked me "Dude has any of this even set in?" it was probably the glazed look on my face or maybe just the fact that I was up at 9:30 and standing in Babies R Us that invoked the the question. My response was "you can never really be prepared for this experience, once it starts, everything goes out the window". I can read all the books necessary, and make all the changes needed to our home, and take all the baby preparation class, but until our baby is born, we can never know enough. What I do know is that Tobi has been a champ, other then a couple late night cherry pie runs, a pantry full of macaroni n cheese and the occasional foot massage, she has been absolutely fabulous!!! Did I mention, there is nothing sexier than a pregnant wife!! FYI...This has nothing to due with the extended mammary glands. Just knowing that Tobi has taken on this task, to carry our child for 10 months, go through a complete body metamorphosis and tackle the most grueling pain she will ever encounter is the sweetest and most loving gift any man can ever receive, thank you Tobias, I love you with all of my heart!
My dad and I spent Saturday morning in Babies R Us exchanging our changing table and he asked me "Dude has any of this even set in?" it was probably the glazed look on my face or maybe just the fact that I was up at 9:30 and standing in Babies R Us that invoked the the question. My response was "you can never really be prepared for this experience, once it starts, everything goes out the window". I can read all the books necessary, and make all the changes needed to our home, and take all the baby preparation class, but until our baby is born, we can never know enough. What I do know is that Tobi has been a champ, other then a couple late night cherry pie runs, a pantry full of macaroni n cheese and the occasional foot massage, she has been absolutely fabulous!!! Did I mention, there is nothing sexier than a pregnant wife!! FYI...This has nothing to due with the extended mammary glands. Just knowing that Tobi has taken on this task, to carry our child for 10 months, go through a complete body metamorphosis and tackle the most grueling pain she will ever encounter is the sweetest and most loving gift any man can ever receive, thank you Tobias, I love you with all of my heart!
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Progress! It's McBaby
It's been a while but life has been hectic. We have new pics to post and suddenly my belly has popped big time...well, it feels big to ME anyway!
We had our ultrasound and got to see the baby from the waist up (so we didn't see the family jewels to ruin the surprise). Everything is perfectly on track and healthy! Hurray.
So, the newest development is that we have decided to call the baby, "McBaby" until he/she is born. We are sick of saying "he or she" or "Knox or Landon" so we've decided to go with the generic McBaby until we know one way or another. For uncle J-Ho, "Huckleberry McBaby" is the extended version. It's super fun and convenient actually.
More to come!
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
How much bigger can they get?
I mean really??? Are breasts that were once a sensible A-cup meant to be a D-cup? I really don't believe so. Furthermore, it's not sensible to have to continue to purchase bras. Additionally, it's rather uncomfortable physically and embarrassing because that's the first thing people who have not seen me in a while tend to notice...my huge boobs.
Please don't let them deflate after breastfeeding, please don't let them deflate after breastfeeding, please don't let them deflate after breastfeeding...
Please don't let them deflate after breastfeeding, please don't let them deflate after breastfeeding, please don't let them deflate after breastfeeding...
Friday, October 31, 2008
Not 100% sure...
...but I do believe I felt the baby move today, on Halloween! I just got done walking this ENORMOUS hill we have by our house, up and back down again, and my breathing was finally starting to slow down and I felt a tickle, a flutter if you will, in my uterus, just above my pubic bone (a visual for all the ladies). It wasn't a huge kick or jump, just a little tiny flutter. I know it seems early, but I feel like I know my body pretty well and it wasn't just another stretchy pain in my uterus. So, call me crazy if you will...maybe it was the spirits Halloween, but I think it was little Knox or Landon trying to trick or treat.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
We have our midwife!
On Monday Knox and I visited South Coast Midwifery and met Lorri and Angela, the two midwifes that do home births. They're both tremendously qualified (nurse practitioners AND certified nurse midwifes) and very spiritual. Three or four people I knew gave ringing endorsements for the staff at SCM and as soon as we arrived, we felt well taken care of. The package that we purchased includes a LOT...pre-natal visits for my entire 3rd trimester (although I'll continue with my visits at Kaiser in case there are any complications), 3 pre-delivery classes (baby basics, non-hospital birth info and breastfeeding), anything and everything you could imagine for the birth itself (water birth, home visits prior to labor, all of the necessary equipment, you name it) and 6 weeks of postnatal care for me after the baby's born. Once they're at the birth with us, should anything happen, they're both qualified to administer IV's and medications, and do any sort of medical procedure needed short of a C-section.
While we were waiting, they showed us a portion of "The Business of Being Born," a documentary all about the horrible state of hospital births in the US...the cycle of inducing labor, epidurals and C-sections. One in three women have C-sections in hospitals. Less than 1% of SCM's mom's ever need to be transferred to the hospital, leaving a pretty clear indication that the majority of C-sections that take place are not needed. Another fun fact: the majority of C-sections in the U.S. take place at 4pm and 10pm, when doctors want to get home for dinner or don't want to invest in the all-nighter. They tell the moms that they're not progressing as they should and for the "good of the baby," they'd better do a C-section. PLEASE go watch this poignant documentary.
At SCM they believe that "the way you live your life is the way you birth your babies." That makes so much sense to me and really gave me a fresh perspective on this whole process... I CAN do a natural, at home, spiritual birth because that's how I live my life. Please don't fear that I'm diluting myself into believing that it's going to be easy, but I do know that I can handle it. My mother in-law, who had 4 vaginal births, did 2 of them all natural and just KNEW that it was the right. After her first two births, she determined that the drugs altered her experience and did the last 2 natural. After giving birth 4 times, I'd say she has some experience and we should all listen!
So if you're interested, check out their website: http://www.southcoastmidwifery.com/
13 week pics on the way! My uterus is undeniably getting bigger!!!
While we were waiting, they showed us a portion of "The Business of Being Born," a documentary all about the horrible state of hospital births in the US...the cycle of inducing labor, epidurals and C-sections. One in three women have C-sections in hospitals. Less than 1% of SCM's mom's ever need to be transferred to the hospital, leaving a pretty clear indication that the majority of C-sections that take place are not needed. Another fun fact: the majority of C-sections in the U.S. take place at 4pm and 10pm, when doctors want to get home for dinner or don't want to invest in the all-nighter. They tell the moms that they're not progressing as they should and for the "good of the baby," they'd better do a C-section. PLEASE go watch this poignant documentary.
At SCM they believe that "the way you live your life is the way you birth your babies." That makes so much sense to me and really gave me a fresh perspective on this whole process... I CAN do a natural, at home, spiritual birth because that's how I live my life. Please don't fear that I'm diluting myself into believing that it's going to be easy, but I do know that I can handle it. My mother in-law, who had 4 vaginal births, did 2 of them all natural and just KNEW that it was the right. After her first two births, she determined that the drugs altered her experience and did the last 2 natural. After giving birth 4 times, I'd say she has some experience and we should all listen!
So if you're interested, check out their website: http://www.southcoastmidwifery.com/
13 week pics on the way! My uterus is undeniably getting bigger!!!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Blog changes
Hi everyone if you tried leaving comments and had no success it's my fault. However I have made the proper changes, so comment away!
Monday, October 20, 2008
Dinner last night
Peaches and Potato Chips. Terrific!!!
The cravings are getting more and more odd :)
The cravings are getting more and more odd :)
Friday, October 17, 2008
Being Pregnant's Very Odd!
Mama Jazz here...
I thought I'd post some words myself, since Daddy Jazz has been doing most of the posting thus far.
Being pregnant is amazing. Simply incredible and utterly bizarre. I feel the incredible changes each day and see my waist line slowly but surely disappearing. It's all welcome (well, except for the nausea). I love each new feeling and love that it's all happening so perfectly. Knox is super excited and that makes me feel SO good! I can't imagine doing this without the complete support of my rockin' husband.
I'm almost 14 weeks along, which means that the baby's about 3 inches long and weighs about an ounce. You wouldn't imagine that something so small could wreak such havoc on the body, but it certainly does. Call me naive and very new at this, but explain to me again how my stomach will fit under the top of my ribcage in about 5 months?! I don't get where my intestines are supposed to fit!!
Despite me feeling like I've been hungover for the past 3 months, we've had the mental fortitude to develop a plan. We have bedding and a theme picked out...nuetral sex colors of course, full of nature! We don't want to find out the sex until the baby's born...no need for the gender inequities to start right away.
We've decided on home birth with a midwife. We're starting the midwife interview process but I think we have a clear front runner. Her name's Lorri Walker and we meet with her on Monday. She comes highly recommended to us by a couple of folks that I trust.
Home birth means no drugs and that's just fine with me because the idea of a needle in my spinal column scares me more than the idea of pushing a watermelon through a tennis ball. Bring on the pain!
We're doing some work on our condo in preparation for Baby with the help of my mom and dad at Thanksgiving. We have quite a bit to do actually...but it's all fun stuff!
We have names picked out already...yes, we had them before we even got married!
Boy: Knox Robert (after dad's nickname. middle name is after my dad and our grandfathers)
Girl: Landon Marie (Knox's middle name and my middle name, which also happens to be my maternal grandmother's name)
Due date: April 27, 2009 (7 days after dad's birthday)
The grandparents and extended grandparents are all VERY excited and I love it. I guess we've made them wait plenty long for this!
So that's all for now...fighting off nausea the best way I know how and still teaching yoga!
Thanks for reading!
Tobs
I thought I'd post some words myself, since Daddy Jazz has been doing most of the posting thus far.
Being pregnant is amazing. Simply incredible and utterly bizarre. I feel the incredible changes each day and see my waist line slowly but surely disappearing. It's all welcome (well, except for the nausea). I love each new feeling and love that it's all happening so perfectly. Knox is super excited and that makes me feel SO good! I can't imagine doing this without the complete support of my rockin' husband.
I'm almost 14 weeks along, which means that the baby's about 3 inches long and weighs about an ounce. You wouldn't imagine that something so small could wreak such havoc on the body, but it certainly does. Call me naive and very new at this, but explain to me again how my stomach will fit under the top of my ribcage in about 5 months?! I don't get where my intestines are supposed to fit!!
Despite me feeling like I've been hungover for the past 3 months, we've had the mental fortitude to develop a plan. We have bedding and a theme picked out...nuetral sex colors of course, full of nature! We don't want to find out the sex until the baby's born...no need for the gender inequities to start right away.
We've decided on home birth with a midwife. We're starting the midwife interview process but I think we have a clear front runner. Her name's Lorri Walker and we meet with her on Monday. She comes highly recommended to us by a couple of folks that I trust.
Home birth means no drugs and that's just fine with me because the idea of a needle in my spinal column scares me more than the idea of pushing a watermelon through a tennis ball. Bring on the pain!
We're doing some work on our condo in preparation for Baby with the help of my mom and dad at Thanksgiving. We have quite a bit to do actually...but it's all fun stuff!
We have names picked out already...yes, we had them before we even got married!
Boy: Knox Robert (after dad's nickname. middle name is after my dad and our grandfathers)
Girl: Landon Marie (Knox's middle name and my middle name, which also happens to be my maternal grandmother's name)
Due date: April 27, 2009 (7 days after dad's birthday)
The grandparents and extended grandparents are all VERY excited and I love it. I guess we've made them wait plenty long for this!
So that's all for now...fighting off nausea the best way I know how and still teaching yoga!
Thanks for reading!
Tobs
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Heartbeat
We are officially live with the blog!! Yesterday October 15th, 2008 we went in for a check-up, pretty painless, no lab work, no co pay, no pelvic exams, everyone was able to keep their clothes on. Dr. Terry pulled out her handy dandy Doppler instrument to make sure there was a little life, with a little itty bitty heart beating in Tobi's uterus. To our joy we heard our child's heartbeat for the first time, awesome!!
Tobi is in good health, I have her running 15 miles a day, only kidding folks. As you can tell from the pictures she hasn't changed much, she is as beautiful as the day we meet. Doc said she wont really start to show until 5 months. We're hoping the nausea will cease and disses.
In the meantime, we keep the fridge stocked with random juices, pickles, beer (for papa) and any other totally weird foods mom wants. The freezer always has mint chocolate chip ice cream (Breyers). Pantry always has spaghetti-o's and saltines for nausea. We're totally set.
Tobi is in good health, I have her running 15 miles a day, only kidding folks. As you can tell from the pictures she hasn't changed much, she is as beautiful as the day we meet. Doc said she wont really start to show until 5 months. We're hoping the nausea will cease and disses.
In the meantime, we keep the fridge stocked with random juices, pickles, beer (for papa) and any other totally weird foods mom wants. The freezer always has mint chocolate chip ice cream (Breyers). Pantry always has spaghetti-o's and saltines for nausea. We're totally set.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Welcome
We would like to welcome all our friends and family to our baby blog. Some of you have known for a while now that Tobias has a little bun in the oven and some of you are just now hearing the great news!!! We decided sometime in May to give it a go, we heard many horror stories of folks trying for months with no success, but fortunately for Tobias and me we hit the nail on the head and conceived about two weeks ago, we think it was August 4th...TMI...I know, but we love you all and want to share in this experience and let the love of all our friends and family help usher in our beautiful new baby...wow that's crazy!!! I'm having a moment, bare with me.......So as I write this Tobi is currently 4 weeks in, the embryo has started to form and in about a week the babies little heart will begin to beat..wow...another moment!!! Before we know it, we will all be blessed with a new son, daughter, grandchild, niece, nephew, cousin or just a bundle of love to spoil when mom and dad go out for date night. Send your love and inspiration into the universe as we begin this journey filled with love.
Tobias & Knox
Tobias & Knox
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