Household recap:
Shawn (father/adult)
Alisa (mother/young adult)
Dexter (boy #10/teen/white) – “bad apple”
Eugenie (girl #10/teen/white)
Xavier (boy #11/child/red)
To check up on those who’ve already moved out, you can view the Murdle family tree. Also, if you find yourself wanting a Murdle of your very own, up top at the Family tab is where you can grab .sim downloads of them once they hit young adult. 🙂
Last time, three kiddos moved out, and the three remaining in the house aged up. This time…well, this is a baby challenge and we only have three at home now, so what Shawn & Alisa choose to do should be obvious. LOL
Bow chicka wow-wow..
Success! And I realized at the beginning of this that thanks to the stupid meteor last chapter blasting the eff out of my garden, we now have no more life fruit. I checked the garden in town and the plant there isn’t at harvest state. Alisa has one more day left until she’s aging to adult (who are unable to get pregnant in my game). I really don’t want to have to use the potion to set her all the way back to the beginning of young adult. I only need three more kids. The radio with kids music is now going to be her companion for the duration.
See this cutie? It’s Mena’s little boy. His name is Howard. He’s much cuter than his name. He showed up for daycare this morning, so Alisa gets on with potty training him.
Then her belly pops, and she’s forced to do maternity leave, much to my surprise. I’ve had pregnant sims work as firefighters and private investigators before, but apparently they just can’t handle daycare.
Eugenie is working on her life’s goal – becoming a chess grand master. The next ranked chess opponent was Mena…who could never be called over, because she was always at work at the register of the elixir shop. I finally went into edit town and slapped down a chess board on the elixir shop lot so that Eugenie could beat her and move on. So she did.
Mena: “You know you could call sometime, sis.”
Eugenie: “Tried that. You’re always at work. Now stop trying to distract me from my move.”
Since the daycare kids left, this is how Alisa spends the rest of her day – watching kids TV, with the radio pumping kids tunes right there.
Alright. It’s go time. Here’s hoping! We need two girls and a boy.
Baby P is born.. it’s a girl!
Primrose is dumped on the floor while baby H is spun into existence. It’s a boy!
Alisa prolongs the suspense by walking Hemlock all the way out to the front lawn to plop him down so she can proceed with her labor.
And the third of the triplets is…another boy. Well, we got damn close to 24 for 24. I name him Ash, to go along with the botanical theme of his multiple set. (Dexter and Eugenie were the only set that don’t have a theme. They were a total surprise and it was like 2 am. LOL Their theme was “quick, think of another name!”)
Primrose (and her siblings) are changed into clothes that match their favorite color so I can more easily keep them straight. Primrose likes aqua, Hemlock loves orange, Ash is partial to green. All three of them are hydrophobic, and I’ll have to check their other traits later.
Dexter approves of the passel of babies.
Eugenie went home with her niece Genevieve. Or maybe Vera. (They’re Fee’s twin girls.) I checked on her and she was busy doing her homework and ignoring everyone else. Girl’s got priorities.
This…was probably a Shawn promotion. He still looks a little dubious about this career, but at least not like he wishes me bodily harm anymore now that he gets to wear a suit.
Dexter is seriously enamored with the babies. My “bad apples” are awesome baby caretakers. Usually Dex doesn’t want to stop dancing for anything. LOL
Awww, look! It’s Holden! He’s still alive & kicking! (The 5 after him are not. He’s just defying the odds.) He’s here to pick up his grandbaby from daycare. I don’t have a pic of the kid, evidently only caring about Holden. *hehe*
I have zero idea why this photo was important to take. Murdle offspring use the bathrooms, everyone.
Dexter’s back with the babies. (I promise he does play with others besides Primrose. Usually Ash is his favorite.. I just apparently miss those pics.)
Alisa’s at work in the now-tiny garden.
Shawn’s sprinting off to work.
All three sprogs asleep. So far Dexter hasn’t messed with them while they’re zonked out, so their schedule is synced up.
Babies tossed down on the floor so that they may age the moment that the clocks rolls around.
Middle man Hemlock goes first..
..followed by Ash..
…and Primrose joins her brothers. They’re all so cute, but the bonus kid quickly becomes my favorite because did you see the eyes? Extreme throwback eyes! The sole Murdle babe to have that eye color. Woot, who knew that by kid #24 I’d still be being excited by the combos?
Over in the nursery, Primrose decides to be adorable in the toy box.
Hemlock heads off to the toy box, while Ash is the first to be potty trained. The other two are taken potty in quick succession.
Eugenie gives Hemlock a quick power nap.
Dexter gives Ash a quick snuggle.
Tot training montage, day 1. Talking for Primrose & Ash, walking for Hemlock.
After training forever, all three tots are fed and sent off to bed.
While the tykes sleep, Eugenie calls over an opponent (and washes the stench off of her before they arrive)
Well this bad apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. LOL Even better than Dexter always being dancing, just like dad, is the fact that I let him choose his own clothes when he aged…and this is what he chose. They’re twinning so hard. 😉
Alisa is grabbing the stuff from her garden for more invigorating potions, and a youth potion since we still have one girl needed and it’s going to be a while before we can try.
Xavier is so quiet I’ve almost forgotten him. But he’s here and ruling over the plebes.
The tots wake up, get a food & potty top off, and then they finish up the skills they started yesterday and knock off the final skill.
Dexter’s back to boogeying down.
Eugenie doesn’t want to give Primrose up, so she totes her while calling for another chess opponent.
And we’ll leave you with this pic of Primrose, Hemlock, & Ash skilling in the nursery.
Alisa decides to tell Dexter he should work on the necessary skills to become a doctor.
As a 3rd-grader, he’s a little dubious, but he heads off to the chess table to build his logic anyway.
Shawn is cheering over something. Or pretending to be a yeti. I can’t say for certain.
Xavier is peacefully sleeping.
Eugenie is.. riding her bike. For reasons. I dunno, this was weeks ago.
So in the wee hours of the morning, I sent Shawn out to garden. I got a notification that said “Shawn wonders why it got dark all of a sudden.” I laughed because OBVIOUSLY it got dark because he went outside before the sun was up. I went to chuckle at my sweet pixelated idiot and caught him doing this. What IS he doing? I checked his queue and noticed it said “React to meteor.” GAH! Looks like he’s not the idiot. (I’ve only had a meteor happen one other time during all my years of play though, and it was during a firefighter event and I didn’t get that notification.)
Run, Shawn, run! (If you squint, you can see him just to the right of the bushes by the front porch. And of course, up in the sky…)
Neeee-yoooom… KAPLOW! I had made sure to move the Death Flower to Shawn’s inventory just in case (I was not about to fail this challenge so close to the end), but even though he didn’t make it inside, he was still safe.
It. Was. Obliterated. That’s one bell pepper plant up top and, oddly enough, one money tree to the left that remained standing. The money tree would never be the same. (They can’t click to interact with just it, though they’ll still tend it if “tend garden” is chosen from a different plant. It does produce bags of money, but when it’s at a harvest state, if you click on this plant it will just give the option to “replace”. Again, it’s harvestable if you click from other plants, so I kept it anyway. It’s been through enough.)
Shawn goes and gathers the space rocks (how does he scoop this one up? LOL) while I try to decide whether I want to rebuild.
Toby: “Holy crapballs, a meteor landed 20 feet from our house!”
I am completely Team Toby on how we feel about this development.
Things get slightly back to normal though. I find Toby & Eugenie reading, while Navy writes.
Indigo is painting, while Shawn sleeps and somehow doesn’t have nightmares about meteor shrapnel nipping at his heels.
Mom, meanwhile, has decided that we will rebuild. But we will rebuild small. Mainly elixir plants, a couple mushrooms, and the money tree that we will just call The Legend.
Twin birthday time!
Dexter gets to go first.
He’s pretty happy with how he turned out, and cheers for himself as he rolls the Handy trait.
This face.. LOL.. I don’t even know.
Here’s a better shot of her. She rolled and adds Easily Impressed to her trait list.
Xavier’s awake, so it’s his turn now!
Everyone cheers him on.
He said sure. Woot!
Indigo is busy being unimpressed by something.
Xavier is, um, here too. *shrug*
Time for prom! I run Eugenie out to where Dexter is so I can get a pic of them together. Dexter decides to pretend fight.
At the main house, I have Indigo call to move out her and Navy.
Navy: “But Toby’s older! Why isn’t he leaving?”
Navy: “Fine. Bye.”
And for her part, Indigo was all smiles about the idea of a move.
Likely couldn’t wait to get out of here before there were more children. LOL
Navy eventually came to terms with it too (likely remembered he had a girlfriend waiting), and off they went.
Speaking of girlfriends waiting…I had had Toby ask to stay the night at Belle’s (and may have queued up a Try for Baby LOL). Let’s check back in with them now that there’s household space.
Whoa, careful there, Butterfingers.
But the precious is caught without mishap, and Toby is able to pose the question.
Thankfully Belle must find his dorkiness endearing, as she says yes!
Toby looks to be getting a little more sure of himself in his inventing.
Indigo is agonizing over the placement of the next brushstroke.
Navy’s making faces at his newest poetry collection.
Dexter’s playing some video game sportball.
Eugenie decides no one else will be coming to fill her belly, so she gets baking.
And Xavier, having learned the toddler basics already, is happily working with mom on developing mad xylophone skillz.
Not long after Shawn gets home, Toby starts celebrating his transition to young adulthood.
He looks much the same, but somehow less awkward.
He’s pleased with it anyway. Or perhaps pleased about the idea that he could move out now. Not happening yet though. I’ve got me a Messorem that he needs to meet. 😉
Here’s the “official” Stylist mode pic of him as young adult. I’m trying really hard to remember what trait he rolled. I’m 200+ pics behind where I am in the game, so I’m afraid if I fire it up to check, I’ll get all distracted with playing again. Ah well. He’s Toby, so it was likely something that didn’t fit. *hehe*
Another day, another new daycare kiddo. Also a Murdle descendant. (I think this was one of the great-grandkids. Briar’s granddaughter maybe?)
Shawn comes home from really selling those fake predictions and spends some time with his youngest.
This gorgeous gal is Belle Messorem from 
And that escalated quickly. LOL But hooray for heart farts! They approve of my match making! Toby immediately rolls a wish to kiss Belle. (And Belle is even more lovely if she has all of the proper CC, I just had to work with what I had. Which means she also has the Bookworm trait rather than Cat-Person as I don’t have Pets. I hope that’s okay, Livvie!)
Having solidified Toby’s relationship with Belle and sent him on to work, I flipped back to the main house. Indigo had brought home Kenton (Brandon Winchester’s son) and the two of them stood in front of the door flirting, much to the distress of her twin.
Indigo: “You can put the moves on me any time.” (I think that’s a chess piece in her speech bubble, so I can only imagine it’s some lame line.. LOL)
Indie & Kenton got sent inside to do their flirting and not block the front door.
She even plants one on him.
Not to leave Navy lonely, I have him invite over someone he met at school. And insta-friend her. And check to make sure she and her lovely green eyes are single.
And he gets a first kiss too. (These guys age up tonight so I’m trying to lock down mates before SP pairs off the whole non-Murdle part of the town.)
Indie downs her final potent skill booster, netting a maxed cooking skill and hitting her LTW (to max 3 skills.)
And now, time for birthdays! Please accept this pic of Navy twirling his noisemaker as proof that both twins are aging up. (Indie’s pre-age celebrating pic didn’t upload with the 200+ pics I dumped and I’m too lazy to hunt it up.)
They both aged up quite lovely, in my totally biased opinion.
Indigo rolled and got a trait too. Both of these guys plus Toby are now up for grabs on the family page. 🙂 I’ll have to add their traits once I boot the game up again though.
The next day, I have Toby invite Belle over as they never got to officially interact/form a relationship. She shows up in werewolf form. (And I obviously had forgotten to give her a decent hair in that form. Sorry Belle, you deserve better!)
Toby doesn’t even notice, seeing only the girl he’s quickly come to have feelings for. A bit of flirting and he decides to try to go for the wish he’s had since he first chucked a glass jar at her..
He leans in for a kiss, and is denied.
He’s a little crestfallen, but seriously Toby. The lady just doesn’t want your first kiss to involve fangs. She still likes you. (They then stand on the porch and auto spam flirty things for a couple hours. LOL)
Shawn: “Hey honey, gaze up here into the mystic portal to your innermost essence..”
Shawn: “Oooh, I think I predicted that correctly..”
And yet.. person-person-plus flies through the air at the end of the reading. LOL
Still, Shawn is immediately romantic with her to try and make her forget about how he tried to read her mind two seconds ago. This looks sweet…
…until I rotate the camera and see Alisa’s “I have not forgotten” face. LOL
The first thing Alisa does is make sure the tots get potty trained (because otherwise the daycare kids have IBS or something, filling their diapers right and left.) A floor hygeniator is installed in the playroom floor thanks to Toby, set to.. whatever scent makes people happy lol. Bellies are kept full, playing is done with the tots, and Alisa even manages to squeeze in time to teach Maritza to talk. All in all, a productive first day.
Later that evening, Toby is apparently inventing a small cannon. (No idea what it really turned out to be. Harvester, maybe? Just looks like it belongs on a wee pirate ship right now.)
Navy is writing, as always. I had him join the writer career since he was always wanting to write anyway. He just tabcasts while he writes to get enough skill to meet his LTW of maxing 3 skills.
Indigo is painting. She’s usually tabcasting as well, for the same reason as Navy. Her cast must be over.
Eugenie is heading home from…somewhere. I dunno. You can’t expect me to remember things like that. (maybe if you updated closer to the time you played…) Hush, you.
Dexter has just finished up some business in the restroom.
Alisa goes and gets Xavier to let him age up, and then frowns.. I guess displeased by all the ruckus of the noisemakers.
Poof! Toddler Xavier! Adorable little baby thing. I mentally pinch his little pixelated cheeks.
And then Shawn ages up. Again. Into a ridiculous ponytail. I remove the ponytail, but I leave him as an adult. There’s not that many more kiddos to go (*fingers crossed*), and I don’t want them to stay young adult forever.
Alisa set about training Xavier while she could give undivided attention before daycare started again the next morning.
Checking to make sure the others were headed to bed, I found that our “bad apple” had convinced big bro Navy to read to him. I let it slide in case it’s actually successful. Spoiler: it’s not. Dexter stays awake through the whole story. Too bad, kid. You get one. I send Navy off to his own bed and just cross my fingers on Dexter zonking out soon.
Time to learn to talk! And of course death is one of the first things you should teach your children to chat about.
Look how cute though! Totally mom’s coloring. I think most of his features are dad’s though.
And.. one last skill to go! This will leave mom’s teaching time open for the daycare kids during work hours (which start up soon. Thank goodness for potent Invigorating elixirs.)
In the morning, Indie decides the bathroom is a great place for some veryclose talking with her twin. Navy looks uncomfortable. Can’t say that I blame him.
Toby and Dexter fill themselves up with knowledge and cake respectively.
Poor Eugenie, low on social interaction and shunned by her “ew-a-child” sister Indigo, simply calls up one of her other million siblings for a chat before school.
The Murdle kids head off to school and the daycare day starts. One of our tots from yesterday aged up last night, freeing a spot. This means my beloved Fee is here with one of her girls. (She and Leif had twin girls Genevieve and Vera. I believe this is Genevieve.) Random pudding face brings Maritza back. I guess her folks were busy?
And that night, we get a pop-up. It appears that Fortune Teller is a career that has a fork. Does Shawn want to be a Scam Artist or a Mystic? Oh, Scam Artist all the way, right.. LOL I know this picture is dark, but even his promotion could not wipe the frown off Shawn’s face.
I had intended to do a full sim check-in, but Toby decided to light his backside on fire. Somehow.
I’m honestly kind of surprised it took him this long to do so, what with his clumsy trait. Probably children can’t set their buns a-blaze. Mom & sis carry on painting like nothing out of the ordinary is happening.
He sprints past Navy, who continues writing his poetry anthology like Toby’s toasted tush isn’t a distraction at all.
He makes it to the shower, hops in fully clothed, and puts out the flames. I realize now that we sort of got a full sim check anyway.. Shawn’s at work, tots are reading, Toby’s on fire, everyone else is ignoring Toby on fire.
I was too busy laughing at Toby (and making sure he got the fire totally out because I do NOT want to have to do an extra kid because of inventing).. I missed the actual cookie tossing moment. Y’all know what it looks like though, and I caught her shoving herself up from the floor. I bet I know what this means!
Navy, carefully counting syllables to make sure his book is entirely haiku.
I shove Toby back to the inventing bench, though he seems a bit wary.
Indigo finished her painting, and then heads off to turn in some items at school for an opportunity. When she walks out, she wishes to take a class in the athletic skill so since she’s right there, I oblige.
Toby’s pretty fantastic about heading in to play with the tiny twins. They’re never low on social, largely thanks to him.
Two things in this picture: 1. Maternity clothes, ergo baby X is on the way! 2. Because she has the best baby-sitter at home, I had sent Alisa to the elixir shop to consign the harvest from her garden. At 5 sharp, we get the notification that she had sold enough to FINALLY move up to level 10 in the gardener career! Booyah! Since she’s got a big ole backlog of paintings, I clicked on the city hall to have her sign up in the painting career. Apparently pregnant sims can’t do that. It seems idiotic why they can’t move from one self-employed career to another while pregnant, but whatever. Pregnancy is short in my game.. so we wait. I send her home to finish another painting for good measure.
In the wee hours of the morning, she goes into labor. Shawn is finally there & freaking out, thinking that if he’d had the office job with normal hours like he’d WANTED, he’d be in bed right now and he wouldn’t have to witness this.
His poor weak stomach cannot handle childbirth, and he’s out right before the good part..
…the birth of baby boy #11, Xavier. His favorite color is red, and I believe he’s an Excitable Genius.
No rest for mom, though. I have her harvest her garden..
…make up some potions, and then head to City Hall to change jobs to painter. Then we pop over to the elixir shop (since the regular consignment store is again not populating a cashier), to consign the huge log of paintings we have built up and to buy them out of any elixir ingredients they have. I let her stay there making potions while we wait for the end of the day total to see how well we do in the painter career.
The littles are in great hands as Toby gets the twins down for a nap, and Navy bonds with baby Xavier.
Well, that was a quick career. LOL Alisa was a painter for one day as her painting sales moved her from level 1 to level 10. Back to City Hall to switch to the Alchemist career. We’ll head back to the elixir shop tomorrow to consign all the elixirs we’ve made but not used.
Tonight however, we’re having some birthdays! Dexter’s up first..
He’s pretty jazzed about getting bigger.
Now it’s Eugenie’s turn.
Aw, my tiny twins are not so tiny anymore. And they’re getting more different personalities, as one rolled Ambitious (Eugenie) and one rolled Party Animal (Dexter). Fun note: both are traits that dad has.
Speaking of dad, he decides that elementary is the best age to start to “get to know” your children. I love Eugenie’s expression like “You’ve had six years, but I’ll humor you.”
Dexter manages to be the first one out the door for school the next day. Fingers crossed that he’s doing fine needs-wise.
Our Magical Gnome of Invention is hitting the juice. LOL
With a new day comes a new chance to make money at the elixir shop. I send Alisa off to consign everything she’s made, buy out what they have, and make a few new elixirs (putting them up when they’re crafted.) That all makes for very boring pics. However, Mena is the elixir shop consignment specialist, and she ate a jellybean that turned her golden while I was there. It amused her even more than it did me.
Toby brings home purple niece Salina (Luca’s girl.) She’s turning out pretty, even in the weird lighting on the porch.
And Eugenie goes home with.. oh my god, look at his eyes! *dies laughing*
Seriously, what’s wrong with his eyes? I thought it was just an odd expression from that moment when they’re frozen in place after getting off the bus. But they’re heading inside and it’s still like that. LOL
CAS makeover to make sure it’s not weird CC or anything. He looks fine in CAS. Hopefully he’ll re-render and be peachy.
*snort* No such luck. Ah well. Have fun with your very alarmed friend, Eugenie. Be home by suppertime.
And as I had her trying to mix up one last batch of elixirs, the daily sales came in. Another surprisingly short career for Alisa.. she again goes from level 1 to 10.
Dunno, just like this pic of Shawn.
Alisa starts passing the garden over to Navy. (Why yes those ARE books growing on my Omni plants. At $450 apiece, they’ve given me the best quickest gardening income.. it just took me forever to figure out.)
Baby Xavier is being content. He’s one of the least needy sim babies ever.
Dexter’s up playing video games
Eugenie’s sleeping with her eyes open. I hope she didn’t catch the Crazy Eyes.. LOL
Toby & Indigo are just getting up and around.
As everyone heads out, I have Alisa sign up for career #4.. the daycare career! Dunno why it took me this long to think of what should have been the obviously perfect career for her.
The kiddos are all busy munching on some muffins Indigo baked up.
Navy’s quick to declare “Not it!” on the dish-washing front. (Why he got the derpy eyes to do so I do not know.)
Dangit. I was going down the line sending kiddos to bed and Indie had to use that three seconds to autonomously check for (and find) monsters. At least it’s not her bed. LOL Off to sleep you go, little girl.
And while I was sending Indigo to bed, Shawn put a not-remotely tired Eugenie in a crib (her brother’s crib.) Eugenie is not amused.
Mom releases her, and skilling for the tiny twins commences.
Closeup of Dexter because I did one of Eugenie up there. LOL
It’s his turn to learn walking while Eugenie is off learning to talk from dad. I think I actually got zero potty pics this time. Full houses leave me a little scattered.
One set of fully-skilled toddler twins is heading off to dreamland now. 🙂
The next day is Toby’s birthday
He rolls for trait and gets.. Technophobe. LOL A technophobic inventor. You do you, Toby.
Here’s a better shot of him, and Navy inexplicably thinking about planes.
Toddler smush face! *wub*
Eugenie: “Look, I’ve already got this one trained!”
Other toddler smush face! *wub*
Toby set Eugenie down and settled in to play with Dexter. I was “awww”ing over that when Elias decided to end his workout and head in to play with Eugenie.
The tiny twins definitely have their big brothers wrapped around their fingers.
Their features are so different. I can’t decide which I like better.
Indigo went home with this guy, who turns out to be Brandon Winchester’s son. He is completely his dad in terms of coloring, but looks more like his mom features-wise. Still, he’s cute, so I have her chuck a friendship potion at him so she can stake claim early. LOL
I…can’t remember why I took this picture. Enjoy anyway.
Giddy face of celebration for Elias because.. it’s his birthday!
And.. face of giddy celebration is gone. LOL
Official Stylist room portrait. He rolled up a trait that I, as usual, forgot.
But enough of grown-up faces. There are toddlers in the house!
Adorable ones, even if Dexter’s looking a bit serious here.
Meanwhile, the “big” twins are peacefully sleeping, and dreaming synchronized dreams about books.
Alisa is taking care of the joint wish she and Toby had for him to learn to drive.
Shawn is busy being the WORST fully-skilled fisherman that I’ve seen (he caught zilch out there in the hours he was fishing our stocked backyard pond).
Shawn gets another promotion and still looks like he’d like to cut me for sticking him with this job. *hehe*
Indie goes home with Kenton again. They play rock paper scissors and throw the same thing THREE TIMES, which is clearly a sign that they’re meant to be.
Toby is focused on inventing something or other.
Navy gets to writing.
Indigo gets home and it’s straight to the easel for her.
And that night, Elias moves out to the tiny house that I made for him. (There are no free houses in town, so I just make little ones for the kids when they leave now.) I’m pretty sure that judging by the look on his face, he knows his girlfriend Grace has also aged up. And true enough, we got about 12 sim-hours in before story progression said they moved in together.
Toby’s LTW requires him to have much music skill (Hit Composer.. he maxed logic as a child). His wishes that he rolls on the daily are for him to invent stuff, so I have him tabcasting guitar lessons all the time. This is how well the poor technophobe takes this instruction. Every. Time. I promise to not make you touch it again once you max it out, buddy.
Hey look! Birthdays for the big twins! Navy goes first, alone in the dark, in the front yard.
Ta-da!! And he finally rolled something good! He adds Genius to his list.
Indigo’s turn!
Shing-sparkle-sparkle.. She rolled and got.. Dislikes Children. Well. Stinks to be her, cuz there’s definitely gonna be kids here. LOL
Twinning bemused expressions!
A more neutral faced look at the two of them.
And the more things change, the more they stay the same. Indigo immediately starts pointing out how dirty it is in hopes that someone (not her) will clean. Navy doesn’t even grace it with an answer because he called “not it” so many times that it should just be obvious by now.
And, since we have one spot in the household and many of her babies becoming old, these guys are going to work on another. (It’ll knock out one wish for Shawn and three for Alisa.. LOL She wants a baby, wants a baby with Shawn, and wants to woohoo with Shawn.)
The parents take the newborn twins to their cribs. I had to take the picture of Shawn cheering about his progeny. It figures that he’d be this excited about Dexter…the last kiddo he was this invested in was Mena, the first bad apple.
Elias invites Grace (his prom date) over. Mom & dad hang in the room too.. watching TV, totally not chaperoning. *exaggerated wink*
Shawn didn’t stick around long though. He surprised me by hunting down Toby so that they could beat each other senseless with pillows.
The tiny twins hung out contentedly for a while. I like to think that they were twin baby-talking back and forth.
Here’s Elias with his prom date. She has the squarest of jaws, but I resisted the urge to mess with it. 1 because I don’t know if they’ll really even click, 2 because she might grow into it anyway, and 3 because I’ll take some imperfection over a pudding face. And because I’m lazy, but those other reasons too.
While they were busy promming it up, the three kids took over the study (Toby inventing, Indigo painting, Navy writing)…
…Alisa tried to catch up in the garden, and Shawn.. I dunno, he was probably dancing. LOL
The tiny twins finally started squalling, and in unison.. which is actually what I was hoping would happen. I may not be able to look at Dexter’s needs, but if he’s on the same schedule as his sister then I can just look at her and get a good idea of where he’s at. Now don’t mess this up for me, sims.
Start with sweetly synchronized snuggles,
simultaneous sucking, then tandem tucking in. Whew. The schedule remains intact, as does my abnormal affinity for alliteration.
While they’re off feeding babies, Toby whips up some muffins for his own empty stomach.
And the “big” twins head off to their bedroom to have a pillow fight.
They were both way into it, but Indie is ruthless. Girl don’t mess around. LOL
I sent Alisa to list some stuff at the Elixir shop…and look who’s the new cashier! Mena!
Navy is.. Lord of the Flies? LOL
Toby looks so pleased with himself that he managed to bring home a friend. If I remember right, this is actually his nephew Josef (Opal’s kid.)
Navy was not so happy though. Somehow during the school day, he and Indie had fought I guess. They both came out of school with “lost a friend” moodlets, and this pitiful sad expression. I’ll fix it for you my babies!
Inside, Toby and Josef are going head-to-head at the chess table
Everyone gathered here is pretending they don’t hear the crying babies in the other room. Shawn is “chatting with someone” and Elias is doing absolutely nothing (it’s an old muffin in front of him), but they’re still all “Enh, I’m sure mom’ll get it.” False. Mom is in the garden working, so get up. LOL
They had just enough time to get their diapers changed before the tiny twins got dumped on the floor for their birthday.
Dexter goes first. Purple eyes from way back on mom’s side!
He then whips out his imaginary friend doll as Eugenie starts to sparkle.
And while their personalities are super similar, I think their features will turn out different. Dexter got purple-y throwback eyes, Eugenie has greenish/hazel eyes. Both have black hair. I think he’ll look more like dad and she’ll look more like mom.. but it’s always hard for me to tell when they’re little. We shall see! I fudged my own rule about letting the bad apple stay in whatever clothes they aged up in, but.. twin toddlers with the same favorite color REQUIRES coordinating outfits. I’ll leave his outfits alone (aside from recoloring) after the toddler stage.
Picking up immediately where we left it last time – parents chess matching, Nicodemus painting, Elias presiding, Toby inventing – it seems we have cause to celebrate. Elias will finally do something besides wear a paper crown.. he’s aging up!
He arrives to his teen years amid much celebration from his father and brothers. Alisa is too busy pouting about her loss in chess (which I find hilarious.. she has 9 logic, and he just dinged 4 during the match. LOL) You can be certain I don’t recall his trait, but it’ll end up on the family page eventually.
Success! Another maxed career for Shawn. Now.. what to have him do next..
Why yes, yes he DOES want to quit his top-level military job to become a Horoscope Reader.
Shawn: “Wait, what? *frantically rolls wish to join political career track*”
This one’s just here because I feel like I don’t show Toby much. I do love him, he just doesn’t seem to do much. But he looks cute cheering his siblings on.
Elias missed the birthday celebrations. He had gone home with a friend from school – a girl named Grace. We got a pop-up that Prom will be Saturday so I had him use a friendship potion and then ask her to prom. (Sorry for the crazy dark pic. Can’t do much if it’s not the home lot.)
The next morning on the way to the school bus, Indie tries to figure out why the paper boy’s face is so bland and smooth.
Alisa.. whatever could be the matter? Stomach bug?
Aw, Nico, no! *sniffle* I’m gonna miss you.
Look at this studly fella. He managed to max, I believe, four skills. Writing & Painting for sure, Logic I believe, and maybe Cooking? I dunno. I think there was a fourth. He had a skill in pretty much everything. And, as per usual, I forget his trait.
He gets a nice simple little house too. I saved both he and Fee’s houses. Maybe I’ll try and figure out how to pack up houses to share and put them up for download if there’s interest.
Still.. I’m not quite ready to move him out. I’ll wait until tomorrow to see if it’s a graduation day. If not, I’ll move him out then. So sit down and enjoy your sushi, Nicodemus.
Checking in with everyone else… Shawn’s busy working from home, likely still mentally cursing me for putting him in the fortune teller career.
Alisa shot a popup that said something went wrong with her potion making. The last time that happened, she was a toad. I started freaking out.. I don’t want a toad-baby! However, it appears that pregnancy made her immune, because she looks fine. So. Back to making those potions, girl.
The twins are starrrrrving. There’s food on the counter, kids.
Toby’s doing what Toby does on free will – reading. 🙂
And Elias is doing what Elias does on free will. LOL And meanwhile he rolled up his LTW to be an astronaut. Clearly his self-discipline still needs a bit of work.
Shawn had gotten promoted that day and so I had him call over a “client”, under the assumption that having high relationship with them would be important. However, I also noticed that he had the option to “Perform private reading”. Uh yeah I need to try that!
As a fan of the show Psych, I laughed entirely too hard at this whole animation. Shawn did correctly predict something for the fellow, but the guy wasn’t too impressed since the prediction was simply “You will pay me in cash.”
And he gutted me by giving me this “How COULD you?!” face the whole way out. Nicodemus, don’t leave upset! I made you a cute little house and everything! I’ll even make sure you get a spouse if SP doesn’t assign you one by the end of a week, okay? I’ll always take care of you.. *sniff*
The family of course ignores the leaving sim.
While clicking around on buildings (to collect money from them since the Murdles own everything in town LOL), I noticed that Alisa could seek medical advice. Hoping this would tell me whether the baby was to be a boy or girl so I could plan a name, I sent her off.
She exited with no new notification, no moodlet, no pop-up.. apparently they just told her the cause for her sore back was being pregnant, I guess, since she just thought about her aches and rubbed her belly. Disappoint. Back to waiting. Stupid waiting. I sent her home.
Indie: “Mom, the trash is overflowing!”
Alisa has enough time to head off an get ready to paint when Elias suddenly starts freaking out.
Apparently he was mainly disturbed by the huge amounts of “puddle” that she had flooded the floor with.
Quick peek to make sure all the kiddos had busied themselves in a different room. I can’t stand the shrieks of terror when the kids see mommy in labor.
Off to see where Shawn is… dancing of course. LOL I think he’s missed a good half of the births because he was dancing. He never wishes for parties, so I guess this is just the way he expresses his “party animal” trait.
And Alisa remains in like the worst-for-photos spot as she gives birth to the babies.
Anyhow, meet Dexter. He’s our final bad apple (sorry buddy, I promise I love you as much as your twin!)
And Eugenie.
Let me take this opportunity to fangirl squeal, because I was nominated for the Sunshine Blogger Award by 
You know, like Mena’s.. doing.. here. Seriously, what the heck is that face? LOL She’s just doing her usual hold-a-youngling-and-stare-at-TV thing. Wonder if she’s watching the show where the crazy hair guy tries to say EVERY thing was because aliens.
Twinsies! *squee!*
Toby heads back to the nursery. Navy follows his big brother.
Indigo’s on their heels. (Honestly, I just love their faces, no real reason for these pics. LOL)
The twins settle in while Toby dreams of aging up and getting some privacy when he needs to make a deposit.
Shawn missed his promotion by a hair. I totally don’t want to wait two more days for him to go back to work, so I have him invite his boss over.
Nicodemus is busy making some supper. Mac & cheese, because that’s his favorite (I think), even though he’s the second best cook in the house. Shawn, former chef, has it maxed, but never cooks anymore. I like to imagine there was some traumatic event that made him swear off cooking entirely.
The next morning, Mena wakes up and chooses to tend to the twins while I make my controllable school-agers do things like shower and feed their faces. You can see there is a thought bubble over her head. It says she’s hungry. But toddlers don’t just tickle themselves, so she’s on the job.
When he’s released, Navy heads off to the dollhouse to play with his twin.
With the big kids all off at school and Toby already asleep, Momma herds the tired twins off to their room.
After school, we set up the festivities for Toby’s birthday.
An adorable little boy! He gains the Eccentric trait.
That evening is Mena’s birthday as well. In true Mena fashion, she was inside the house in wonderful lighting and walked outside apparently just to age in the dark.
Here she is all grown up. It looks rather like mom’s features stuck on dad’s face/head shape. Still works. 🙂 She rolled and gained Natural Cook for her trait and 5-Star Chef for her LTW.
I had wonderful visions of Toby getting a different Lifetime Wish than my other kids have rolled, something eccentric-related, so I buy him an inventing bench and set him to it. (Nevermind that you’re Clumsy, I’m sure this hammer & blowtorch will be fine for you to handle.) However, as he gains his first inventing skill point, he rolls up Hit Movie Composer. Enh, whatever. It is new. At least it’s not Illustrious Author. LOL
Before kicking out Mena, the most helpful bad apple ever, I have everyone meet up at the Science facility for a greeting card with kids 13-18.
Murdles in Space.. hehe.. Might be the best photo they’ve done. And it did not escape my attention that Mena still hogged the toddlers over by her. LOL She’s as much of a toddler-aholic as I am.
Alisa and Shawn sit down for a serious business chess match.
Nico flips on a tabcast and hops on the nearest easel.
Elias decides to preside over all his minions. His minions ignore him but King Elias doesn’t let this get him down.
Toby bashes his thumb for about the 73rd time since getting this inventing bench less than 24 hours ago.
Multiplying Murdles 