3.3 Missed Birthdays

Welcome back to the Awkward Tree Legacy, where the whole family eats pasta primavera in the toddlers' bedroom.

Cale: Except for me! I'm being productive!

Yes you are, Cale. Would you like to share your accomplishment with the readers?

Cale: I've maxed out my programming skill! Which means I'm well on my way to that level 10 promotion!

And good thing, too. Apple has been riding the top of her career for so long, that she's just coasting on all sixteen of her vacation days. Apple may never work again at this point.

I also wanted to show you guys Beau's second oldest son, Jakob. He looks a lot like Salim! Ah, I miss Salim.

Apple: Hey, over here!

Ooooh, hopefully the last baby for Apple and Cale! Also note that she has that swirly disease again.

Yay, it's only one baby! Meet the second boy of our legacy, Elm Arbor.

The twins are busy skilling away in preparation for their upcoming birthdays. Those kiddie tablets are really coming in handy!

This is one of Aspen's friends, Maeve. Something I really love about having the MC Command Center (now that it's finally calmed down) is the diversity it creates in the town. We have alien and vampire babies all around!

Beau's third child, Prince, checks out the new baby.

Prince: I've always wanted a real family.

Yeah, sorry kid. Your family situation definitely hasn't been the best with the romancer Beau as your father.

Speaking of Beau…

He's gone off and gotten another lady pregnant…and had twins. These two are babies Wyatt and Nikki. That makes six kids for Beau…and like, one marriage?

Aspen here has conquered three childhood aspirations. I decide we should probably stop there.

But since he's conquered the social one, he has lots of friends. He and Mara are still closest though (Mara being another of Beau's band). She's such a cutie.

The cousins are all very interested in Elm. I think their weird home lives have something to do with it, although Shannon Nava's home life isn't near as dramatic as the Srivastavas.

But, just like that, the cousins' favorite plaything has become a toddler. Hi toddler Elm!

I changed his hair though because he looked way too much like his brother.

Apple: THERE ARE TODDLERS EVERYWHERE, HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO WORK?

Yeah, Apple's been spending her paid vacation time working on her writing aspiration. We've been stuck on the last tier for a while. I'm hoping it gets a little easier once all the kids are grown up a bit.

Juniper! I feel like I haven't seen you in ages! How are you doing?

Juniper: Why does everyone hate the dollhouse?

…YOU broke the dollhouse.

Last update, we saw Olive get married. I don't think she's very excited about the prospect of motherhood. I, on the other hand, am very excited for the legacy kids to have first cousins!

Also Prince Srivastava is a teen now. Not bad!

Zechariah: I'm so glad I don't have toddlers anymore.

Clayton: I'm so glad I only ever had one.

Zechariah: Man, what did we do when we had toddlers? I don't even like kids.

Clayton: At least we're not Beau.

Zechariah: That's very true.

I think Hamza is the real champ of the legacy right now, though. He's not super useful taking care of the toddlers, but it's adorable when he reads to them and they follow him around.

Mara is also perfect with the twins. I think she's one of my favorite spare's kid's kiddos!

Because of the butler and the upcoming twins' birthdays, I decided we needed to add another bedroom into the house. This is Willow's future room.

YOU SMUG MONSTERS ATE MY CAKE! That was for the twins! 

And here Willow starts a trend of growing up in colored shades?

As you can see, we have the new family game pack. *Sigh*

Unfortunately, neither of the girls made it to the cake. Just as we got the SECOND cake set up…

Bay ages up on the steps. Well. At least I tried.

Here's Willow looking just like her mother, and becoming a little musically-inclined scamp. 

She grows into a whiz kid and develops the Loves the Outdoors trait. She looks like such an interesting mix of both of her parents!

And I completely forgot about my heir's birthday…I am the worst simmer. 

I feel like my heirs haven't particularly been aging well…

Hamza…you are a saint.

 At some point, these cousins had snuck upstairs and fallen asleep in Willow's room…I'm not really sure what to do with them. They both have houses?

Eager to test out the new stuff from the family game pack (I was really hoping for some more cool outdoors kids stuff, but what're you gonna do?), I get out some of these projects for all the kids!

I really like that they can develop some new skills here (although I really would've also loved some more kid aspiration…).

Bay stop taking after your mother! Be nice to Hamza!

Poor Elm here really wishes he was old enough to do some school projects, too.

Aspen: Okay, listen, we ruin the floor in every other room, but NOT my bedroom.

Shannon: Hmph.

Bay: Mom, can I eat my birthday cake now? It's been out for like two days.

Apple: Yeah, whatever, you could've eaten it sooner if you waited ten minutes to have your birthday.

I love the placemats!

So Cale and Apple are constantly trying to play with the dollhouse, with or without the kids. It's kind of adorable, but also a little bit strange.

I'll leave you with this motherly family moment between Apple and Bay. Until next time!

3.2 Quadruple Trouble

Cale: And that's why, Aspen, you need to learn ALL of your skills!

We welcome back the Arbors with me on ALL the pain meds from wisdom teeth extraction, so please bear with me if things are a little rough today. The good news is, however, that I've played far ahead so there's lots to cover.

Apple here is pregnant with baby number two, and Aspen is turning out to just a a little cutie.

In fact, he grew up to be a charmer! No surprise there with his little fox ascot. No, I'm NOT still obsessed with the toddler update to the game.

Myrtle turns out to be the most helpful ghost ever and constantly takes care of Aspen in the middle of the night while the young parents sleep. She would have made a great grandma!

Clayton and Zechariah come over for dinner and coffee, amongst a few of the other cousins.

And Olive makes it her mission to reunite the estranged brothers.

Olive: Beau, are you actually hiding in the bathroom?

Beau: Leave me be! I'm just not ready yet, okay!

Moments later, while Apple is trying to feed Aspen, she feels those motherly twinges once more!

Apple: Sorry, son, you're just going to have to eat your apple sauce on the floor.

Aspen: Hmph.

But our new butler Hamza pulls one out for the win and appeases the cranky toddler! Go Hamza! I think it's so cute that butlers help read to the kids and stuff.

Welcome baby number two, a girl, to the Arbors! This is Willow!

…and this is Bay! Looks like our first set of twins in the main legacy house have appeared!

Also, cute Aunt Olive spam playing with the nieces. I hope she has babies soon, too, so the cousins can be the same age. It's doubtful though. Olive's not really one for listening.

And before long, the twins have grown into toddlers as well. This is Bay. She has the silly trait.

And here is Willow! She looks just like Apple, except she grew up with the angelic trait––which is very un-Apple-like. 

All three of the toddlers seem to enjoy the dollhouse most of all. However, I can't say that I was prepared for the chaos that is three toddlers.

Also, Aspen is super into dancing. He actually got a little moodlet that was basically grumpy from dancing that I thought was adorable and hilarious.

Also some quick spam, this is Pablo Srivastava! I think he's Beau's oldest son, the one that wound up living with Clayton during that fiasco.

I missed Aspen's birthday! I am the worst! I'm a bit disappointed with how skinny his lips are. He kind of looks like a frat star, but along with gaining the happy toddler trait he takes after Art and becomes hot headed. Sigh. Goodbye dollhouse!

You'll also have to excuse just how chaotic this post is. I know things are happening very quickly and we didn't get too much of Aspen's toddlerhood. When I was taking these pictures I was in the process of being diagnosed with lupus and my hands hurt too much to type. Graduate college, right? Lupus and wisdom teeth? At least I have good pain meds!

I thought this was cute. Aspen always does his homework with the girls in their bedroom. Butler Hamza frequently joins in to supervise. Bay doesn't look too happy about all the attention though. I sense a future loner!

Also, look Olive is an adult! Where are those babies, Olive?

Olive: I don't need a man. 

And she actually smiles for once as she says it. Okay, you don't need a man, but babies?

Olive: No promises. 

Apple: Hey, I have an idea!

No! This better not be what I think it is!

Apple: Oh, it is!

…I thought we were finally safe from three toddlers. Why do you do this to me?

Apple: Hey, you wanted me as heir, remember?

 Hey, Olive. You've been coming around more these days!

Olive: Yeah, my apartment is trash. I miss the legacy house.

Fair enough.

Cale's kind of been just walking around the house reading things. In the living room…

In the greenroom…

In the dining room during club hangouts…Yes. Cale lives an exciting existence. Wait, shouldn't you be programming or something?

I think Hazel has some regrets about moving out on her own so early, too. That or she's just really annoyed with Clayton. But, really, who isn't? Poor Clayton.

Apple is also VERY pregnant. By the way, this is not a good time to have another set of twins.

Apple: I really don't plan to.

Why the long face, Cale?

Cale: I'm vegetarian…

OH NOT AGAIN. I'm normally great with vegetarian sims but I just cannot keep up with Cale's diet with three kids.

Hamza: And I can hardly keep up with their dishes. EVEN WITH A MAID.

Yeah, Hamza really has his work cut out for him. I dunno what we're going to do when he dies.

 Toddler spam! Willow is such a cutie.

Apple: I think I'm going to be sick.

BABIES SOON?

Apple: Nah. Maybe I'm just tired.

Pregnant sims, what can you do?

 Bay: I'm tired of vegetarian food.

Kid, you eat less vegetarian food than your father eats non-vegetarian food.

And before we end for the post, I thought it might be a good time to catch up a bit with the rest of the spares' families. This is Lee Srivastava, Clayton's somehow only child.

And this is Mara Srivastava, Beau's youngest. She's cute!

Mara is also Aspen's best friend and fodder for his second aspiration, the social butterfly one. He's already accomplished the artistic prodigy. This kid sure moves through them fast.

These are Cale's kids with Siya. I don't remember their names, so I will introduce them properly as teenagers.

 

Also, I don't remember if I've mentioned this or not, but once the woman Beau and Clayton fought over passed away DUE TO OLD AGE BECAUSE SHE WAS TOO OLD FOR THEM, Clayton remarried––Hamza Ichmawin! Turns out he's gay! And I think they are adorable. Hamza was their friend they went to the bar with in high school.

 

I'll leave you with some exciting news! Olive is moving on in her life and found herself a man! Aww! Thanks Olive!