Topic: Counting Down to B-Day!

Mataya · Date: 2013-08-13 19:26 EST

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Week 14

It's official; my pants REALLY don't fit anymore! But some of my dresses still do! So I'm holding off on that trip for maternity clothes a little while longer. That said, though ....I have a bump! A genuine, oh-my-gosh-I'm-actually-pregnant bump! And I do kinda wanna show it off. But we're in the middle of the Shakespeare run at the Shanachie, and despite achy boobs and a bladder the size of a peanut, I don't want to take my eye off the ball until that's over. As well as waiting on the contracts to be finalized for the movie, which should happen any day now.

Still ....OH-MY-GOSH-I'M-ACTUALLY-PREGNANT!

Mataya · Date: 2013-08-23 09:29 EST

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Week 15

I caved. And it's totally the fault of the woman doing the costuming for Swan Song. I swear, she's more excited than I am about the whole bump and baby business! Anyway, she completed ignored everything I said about not really needing maternity clothes yet, and put me in the world's most comfortable jeans for the first day of filming. And I caved. Forget trying to squeeze into my clothes using string and elastic bands - maternity all the way! Maternity pants are awesome!

The long days are getting to me a bit, and we're not even finished the first week of filming. Jon's a babe, though - he keeps running interference so I can catch a quick nap in the middle of the day, without me even needing to ask! And Max is awesome, as always. The man's turning into a housewife - dinner on the table when I get in at the end of the day, long hot baths, foot rubs. He's gonna spoil me so badly. But what the hell, I'm earning being spoiled for the first time in my life, right?

Mataya · Date: 2013-09-04 06:01 EST

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Week 17

I can't believe it. Four weeks into keeping this diary, and I've already missed one. I guess my excuse is ....work. Max thinks I'm overdoing it, but seriously, I don't think I am. The shoot is going brilliantly, even if I do keep forgetting how to say basic words and making Jon wait patiently through take after take until I get it right. But what?s really on my mind is the Shanachie. This is the first time I've been away during the week of auditions, and although I'm sure Ludo, Gabriel, and Joliss as happy as clams that I'm not there, hovering over everything, I still feel protective over my pet project and the people who are a part of it.

Bless him, Ludo's been emailing the applications each evening so I'm on top of who is interested and who is coming back, so at least I feel involved, and there are a few new names this year, which is awesome. Only about ten more days to go, and I'll be back in Rhy'Din, and back at the reins again, and just, well, back. I never thought I'd say this, but Earth just isn't home anymore.

But this is supposed to be about my bump. That's the whole point of this diary! There's not much more to say, despite the whole two weeks have passed thing. Oh! I have flutterings! I think the doc said it was called quickening, but I can feel the baby moving inside me! Feels kinda like pre-indigestion right now, but apparently it'll feel more like there's someone stretching out as the weeks go on. Won't be for a while that Max gets to feel it, too, though. Speaking of Max ....I need to talk to him about his application. Hmm.

Mataya · Date: 2013-09-10 09:57 EST

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Week 18

Sooooo tired. But happy. The whole nasty trial business is over, Tony finally proposed to Anya, the auditions are done, and there's only a few days of this horror left. Okay, not a horror. I'm enjoying it. I am. Honestly. Swear to God, though, Jon might disembowel me if I have another slip like I did yesterday. I nearly blurted out his news to room full of reporters! Thank God Max was there - he's an *ss sometimes, but his stupid moments can be quite clever. Like knocking over the whole refreshments table just before my big mouth opened. He got thrown out, but I made it up to him.

Thank God this is the last week of filming. I love it, I really do. I just want my bed!

Mataya · Date: 2013-09-16 13:03 EST

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Week 19

Home again. I can't believe how much I've missed Rhy'Din. One month on Earth is the longest I've been away since I moved here, and so much happened during that month. Elena's finally free, Tony's engaged to Anya, Elena's engaged to Michael, Juno apparently lost her virginity - although that last one is a secret to be kept from Max as long as is humanly possible. And my bump ....look at my bump! It's a bump! I've been falling asleep hugging it, I'm so excited to be, you know, obviously pregnant.

Also ....Swan Song is being submitted to the Golden Globe and Academy Award committees. I'm kinda hyped about that, too. I swear, I have a good feeling about this one. Jon's gonna get his Oscar this time, and if he doesn't, I'm going to complain. Loudly. I'll get Max to protest naked outside their offices until they give in and give my friend the award he so obviously deserves. And I'll be completely safe against reprisals because, look! Pregnant!

Mataya · Date: 2013-09-25 11:25 EST

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Week 20

Halfway! I'm halfway there! I can't believe that we're already halfway to being able to hold our little miracle!

Had the anomaly scan today, and there's no anomalies! I'm ridiculous happy with that - the doc says I'm working too hard and to ease back a bit, but that should be fairly easy now the filming for Swan Song is over. I'm starting to get killer heartburn in the middle of the night - not fun at all, especially when Max is draped all over me and I can't reach the Tums.

The radiographer asked if we wanted to know the baby's sex, and I don't. I want it to be a surprise, I want it to be the way it was for Mama when she had us. She never knew what was coming, and she ended up with four kids she adores. I hope it'll be like that for us. But what if I don't like this kid when it pops out' Is that a horrible thing to say' I didn't get much of a chance to be a mom to Juno before she did the cocoon thing. What I completely suck at it?

Mataya · Date: 2013-10-02 10:41 EST

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Week 21

Okay, so I caved. After a lot of whining - most of which didn't actually come from me - I'm taking the week off. And, yeah ....kinda loving it. It's such a change of pace, not having to be at the theater first thing, not having classes at the studio to oversee. But was it really necessary for everyone to pile in and insist that I take some time off? I was going to anyway! Eventually. You know, when the baby's born.

Mataya · Date: 2013-10-07 14:32 EST

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Week 22

I think I made a new buddy-buddy girlie best friend this week. Actually, no. I have a girl crush. A huge girl crush. On my best friend's wife. Swear to God, Vicki is a life-saver. I've spent the last couple of weeks trying to work out why I'm getting so achy and uncomfortable, and frankly dreading my third trimester, and today, she totally solved the mystery for me.

Underwear. That's it, that's my big problem. I've been so focused on getting, you know, clothes that make my bump look pretty, I completely forgot that I might have to at least go up a bra size. And the only reason we had this conversation' Yeah, I tried to cancel a lunch date with her because I was feeling like crap. So what did Jonny's scary redhead do' She showed up anyway, kidnapped me, and took me to a shop that makes Victoria's Secret look like a bring and buy sale. I can't wait to show Max my new pretty over-shoulder-boulder-holders!

But, yeah. Massive girl crush. If Victoria Granger was male and unmarried, I would totally ditch Max and marry her myself. If I thought Jon wouldn't rip all my hair out for trying it.

Mataya · Date: 2013-10-15 11:41 EST

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Week 23

Never say that the De Lucas aren't a surprising family. I think Elena's flipped her lid, personally, but I'm never gonna say it out loud. Not when she's so happy, and Mama's so delighted for her. I can't help feeling kinda left out, though. If it hadn't been for the stupid baby bump, I would be there with her, right now, watching her get hitched on a beautiful white sandy beach. Just a quiet, simple ceremony - that's what she and Michael wanted, and with only Tony and Anya there to witness it, that's what they've got.

I've been whining about it for a couple of days now. I don't mind, exactly, I just wish I could be there to see my little capocuoco get married. It's the first time I've resented being pregnant, and I don't like it. I don't think anyone in the house likes it, to be honest. I'm a nightmare to be around when I'm feeling put out. But help is on its way!

I love my Maxy. My baby sister jets off somewhere to get married, leaving me feeling fat and unwanted, and what does he do' DATE NIGHT! I get to wear a pretty dress and heels and feel gorgeous and celebrate Elena's wedding with my own carissimo. And even better ....I get sex! Woohoo!

Mataya · Date: 2013-10-22 10:11 EST

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Week 24

I get asked a lot of stupid questions every day. Before I got pregnant, they were usually to do with the theater, or my family - you know, dumb stuff like "So are you related to Elena De Luca?", or "Is it hard work, running a theater?" And, you know, I think I've been pretty patient with those questions. Everyone has a dumb moment every now and then. Since I got pregnant, though, there's a whole new arena of dumb questions, and I am guaranteed to hear them at least once a day.

I've decided, however, that the stupidest question I get asked on a daily basis is this - "Do you know what it is yet?" Like I'm incubating some unknown species, or maybe I'm just brewing a really huge fart and waiting for my opportunity. Of course I know what it is - it's a baby, dumb*ss! And for that matter, I don't appreciate all the attempts to guess the gender of our unborn child. You might want to know, but I don't. And I'm the Mama! So back off and bully your own kids into having a baby for you to obsess over!

Mataya · Date: 2013-11-07 09:34 EST

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Week 26

I have a legitimate excuse for missing a week this time ....and it's work. But good work! Nothing too much, I'm not tiring myself out. Hell, I couldn't tire myself out if I tried - Max is threatening to set my own mother on me if I poke a toe across the clearly defined line of this is too much even once. But exciting work is never tiring, and besides, he knows me too well. Like I'm gonna let the next Fifty Shades .... film be premiered anywhere but at the Shanachie!

Elena refused to do the catering; she said it was way too big an event for her to start out with, which I kinda get, but I'm still pouty about it. But she helped with the party bags that we're gonna hand out to all the guests - oh, and she came up with the idea that we should give out a cup of hot cider to every fan who'll be there, because it looks like it's gonna be a chilly night. I like that idea a lot. And the dress! I have a beautiful dress and it shows off my bump, and I get to wear heels for the evening! God, I'm such a girl sometimes.

Mataya · Date: 2014-01-15 13:45 EST

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Week 36

I know, I know, I let ten weeks go by without updating this thing. But seriously, there was Thanksgiving, and Christmas, and New Year's, and a GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATION! That totally deserved capitals - I got nominated for Best Actress in a Motion Picture in the Golden Globes 2014! I didn't get it, of course, that would just be too weird, but I was nominated! Jon got his Golden Globe, richly deserved, and I'm crossing everything for him getting the Oscar this year, too.

On to the pregnancy, though ....I feel like a beached whale. Any day now, I'm going to burst, and it can't come fast enough for me. Having a bump was fun for the first few months, but now it's just big and heavy, and always getting in the way. I would like to hand in my bump and redeem it for a baby, thank you very much. Any day now, I just have to keep telling myself that. Any day now.

I've been playing around with names, although me and Max still haven't actually agreed on anything. I think we're both waiting to see what pops up when we get our first look at the teeny one. But I've got a couple of names in storage, maybe as middle names ....Rosa for a girl, because my mom has been awesome through all this; and maybe Maddox or Oscar for a boy. I want a boy to be named after his dad, though, so whatever we go with there has to go with Max as a middle name.

Mataya · Date: 2014-02-02 07:52 EST

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Max Yako and Mataya De Luca would like to announce the arrival of their firstborn son, Oscar Maximilian, at 8:27 on the evening of February 1st, 2014. The labor took around 15 hours, producing a healthy baby boy measuring 18.5 inches and weighing 6 lbs, 1 oz. Mom and baby are doing fine.

You can spot the new Daddy in the Shanachie's latest production, Grease!