Hear ye! Hear ye!
It's been an eventful and exciting week in the Buccio household. For starters, we no longer have to refer to our baby as "it". Phew! No need to accelerate self-esteem issues in the womb. And to share the news once again, because it just never gets old, WE ARE HAVING A GIRL!!!! Tutus, tiaras, and tea parties! Our kind of girl. As you can imagine, Coco is over the moon! He is such a lady lover and is looking forward to Alice's Tea Cup dates with his little bambina! Our gender reveal fiesta on our roof was a huge success with friends and family celebrating and toasting this miracle of love. You know how they say that when you have a baby, it feels like you are the ONLY person in the world having a baby, or for that matter, the only woman in the world who has ever had a baby?? Yeah, it totally feels that way. I remember hearing that when I was non-baby fan and thinking how self-absorbed and/or silly these women are. NOW I get it. I'm pretty fluent in self-absorption but I have to tell you, when it does happen to you, the feeling really is indescribable. Ok, back to baby.
We are happy to announce as well, that we have picked out a name for our beba. Many of you are familiar with our name journey and we couldn't be more delighted and happy with our choice. Maya Teresita Buccio. Her name means so many things, from "divine creative force in everything" to "mother" and "great one." More importantly though, "Maya" was my grandmother on my father's side, who played a momentous role in my life. She was your typical stereotypical abuela, who's kitchen always smelled like delicious food, wore a mumu and slippers, and had white hair I would love to tie up in little ponytails and make her answer the door for the mailman that way. I also would play and jiggle her arm fat, which now when I think about it, wasn't very nice. But it made me laugh so she didn't care. She taught me how to read in Spanish at the age of 3 (Don Quixote) and played Spanish Guess Who, Connect 4 and Parcheesi with me. She would make me kool aid pops, natilla, and we would sit on her plastic couches and listen to 8 track music from Django, Braulio, and Rafael. I have wonderful memories of my childhood because of her. When I told my dad the news, he cried like a baby. (he's an ugly crier) and that cemented even further for us that the name we picked was "the one". The middle name "Teresita" is my mother's name. Some of you knew my mother, some of you didn't, but I wish you did. My mother was not only a wonderful, intelligent, and beautiful person who was full of life, she was also an incredibly loving mother (only with me though). A disciplinarian we often nicknamed "Hitler", she sacrificed so much so that I could have the best of everything- education, home, and life. It sounds cliché, but she has made me who I am today. It is only now as an adult that I am able to understand and be grateful for everything she taught me and prepared me for. I thank God that I was blessed with her as a mother and friend. I could go on forever on this email with stories, memories, anecdotes- some that will make your head spin, others will make you laugh in agreement. The only thing I can say is that I hope that I can be the kind of mother that she was to me. And everyday I will talk to Maya about her amazing grandmother (who would probably have not wanted to be called abuela) and how she was always perfectly dressed with her Barbie pink lipstick, acrylic nails, and blonde hair (bc a woman should NEVER be under dressed according to Teresita and she is very right), loved to dance salsa and listen to Frank Sinatra, go to the beach together at Crandon Park and tan with her baby oil and iodine (which she would also make me slather on so I could get the perfect tan..that didn't work out well), and loved to flaunt her cleavage! (like mother, like daughter).
Moving on to how I'm feeling- FAN-FREAKIN-TASTIC! Seriously, I feel wonderful and pregnancy is agreeing with me. I have nothing to negative to say about it (except for the nausea at the beginning and the back pains that are constant) but talk to me in the last months when I'm ready to pop. I went to the doctor today for a baby check up and doc said everything is looking and sounding "great!" Maya was awake- again. I think she wants to see/hear us as much as we do! Doesn't seem like this baby sleeps though. hmmm. I've gained 7 pounds so far in the pregnancy. No beached whale just yet here!
I think that is enough for this week! I feel like I wrote a book report for you. Deep thoughts by Kathy Buccio. Thank you for coming along on this magic carpet ride with me. See you next week when we graduate from an onion to a, who knows. Another fruit or vegetable I imagine.
MILF IN TRAINING,
KAT
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