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living with lucy continued
Home life for the Amazes is a round of dizzy doings and quiet relaxation. Here, they indulge in both as Lucy keeps up a running wise-crack on the TV script Desi is reading.
Their beloved little Desiree has her own apartment, complete with private patio and playground. Her wing of the house will soon be shared with a new sister or brother.
The five acre citrus ranch that Desi and Lucille own is very similar to the plantation in Cuba on which Desi grew up. Even the pool is a copy of the one Desi's family had.
of a daughter. To make things easier for him some one had lifted little Desiree onto the table. She reached for a fistful of cake. As she turned to offer some to her Daddy, her year-old legs failed her. She tottered, lost her balance and sat smack on the gooey layer cake.
The party crowd roared. Parents laughed until tears came. The kids cooed and applauded for more.
"I must say things have changed a heap around here," one of Lucille's oldest friends said to Grandmother Ball.
Mrs. Ball mused for a moment. "Yes," she agreed, "and then again, no."
The newest factors in the lives of Lucille Ball and her Latin lover Desi are of course their new-found fame as TV stars and their new-found happiness, after years and years of trying, as parents.
When Lucille, after 11 years of marriage, discovered herself pregnant one afternoon, she quickly ordered the addition of a nursery wing to her house. The construction of which turned out to be a little less elaborate than the re-modeling of the White House. What started out to be an added room and bath soon grew into a project of PWA proportions.
Contractors pointed out to Lucy and Desi that local building codes prohibited the addition of a room that would have to be entered through an existing bathroom, an ordnance which prevented Lucy from having the baby's headquarters set on the other side of her own dressing-room-bath.
"It was murder," Lucille recalls. "For years I'd been hoping and praying for a child. Now that it was on the way I didn't care how the architect planned the nursery. All I knew was that I wanted to be able to step from my gray and yellow room into the matching gray and yellow room of my baby. It was the dream of my life. I didn't realize it would have to develop into a Federal case." That, of course, is exactly what happened. "Only thing to do," said the architect, "is build an addition in the shape of an inverted L." "Okay," said Lucille. "Build it." Then Desi came home that evening. Among other things he's a frustrated architect. "What's going on here?" he demanded. "An inverted L," Lucy answered nonchalantly. Desi looked at the blue-prints. "All wrong," he said at length. "It'll take a year for the nurse to go from our kitchen to the baby's room with a warm bottle. What we need near the nursery is a kitchen." So they included an apartment-size kitchen in the new wing— also a separate heating unit, a new plumbing system, and new cabinets.
When it was all finished, Desi totaled up the cost. "Comes to $20,000," (Continued on page 65)