My aunt has a wedding shower and all I can remember is that dad and I got no sleep
Nov 11, 2017
My aunt has a wedding shower
My aunt is getting married so her relatives in Coatepec decided to throw her a shower. Given that she is my mother's sister, they decided the shower should be in our house. Given that it was a shower for a bride to be, no men were allowed. Given that no men were allowed, dad and I had to stay a my abuela's house.
Now I don't mind hanging out with dad on most days, but I must confess that I was a bit put off by being placed in the "men" bucket. I would have thought that there would be more leadway when it came to the "bucketing". I am only eight months old (soon to be nine). How could I possibly get classified so early? Mom keeps telling everyone that she doesn't know what gender I am and then goes and allows me to be classified as one of the men.
As I mentioned, dad and I were sent across the street to stay at my abuela's house along with my tio (my mother's brother). He's pretty cool when he isn't deliberately upsetting me. I thought it was cool that he drove his sister and his wife all the way from Mexico City only to be relegated to the house across the street.
Before the shower started, mom came over and gave me lots to eat so I would go to sleep, which I did. If I woke up, dad was supposed to send mom a text message and she would leave the party, come across the street, and give me more to eat until I went back to sleep. I just love when adults make plans.
After being asleep for a while, I started to hear all the screaming and laughter coming from my house. I recognized some of the voices. Their voices came across the street and into my abuela's house. It woke me up. It was so loud, I screamed too. I wanted them to know that I could be loud too! Dad came upstairs from the dining room where he and my tio were bonding. That's what men do. Dad brought me downstairs so that I could join in on the bonding.
Soon mom came through the door; took me from dad and went upstairs where she could feed me in the privacy of my abuela's bedroom; and avoid embarrassing my tio who did not want to watch mom feeding me. Meanwhile the noise from across the street continued to come out of my house. It was louder and more persistent. There was no way I could go back to sleep.
While I refused to go back to sleep, I watched dad and mom looked at each other with their strange expression sometimes referred to as desperation. Sometimes I have real fun waching those two.
Dad suggested that I might not be able to sleep because I was not in my own house. Mom agreed and said that she would smuggle us past the party through the front door (it was the only entrance) and down the hall into our bedroom.
Mom opened the door and we surried down the hall like two rats. When the women saw us, they all started to chant, "the strippers are here". Dad and I made it to the room, closed the door and listened as the women turned their attention back to whatever it was they were doing before we got there. Now instead of listening to the noise from across the street, dad and I got to listen from down the hall.
The next morning when we got up and went to the living-room to survey the remnants of the party, along with lots of balloons and women's clothes on the floor, we found an imprint of the lips of one of my tias on the wall. Dad looked me straight in the eye and said, "Victor, there are somethings better left unasked".
In December we will travel to Mexico City to attend the wedding. Men are allowed there.
PS: I had only known two kinds of shower until this one. I knew the one that my parents take sometimes together and sometimes alone. The other one I knew was from when we first arrived and everyone brought presents for me. Well turns out that one of my mom's friends didn't know what kind of shower this one was cause he sent regrets that he couldn't come (apprently there was a time when men were invited) but he sent me another present.
