Sunday, 5 May 2019

A Trip Down Memory Lane

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 Augie heeded my advice and went to speak to his dad Caleb about vampires.
 Caleb: "Hoo boy.  I guess it's time we had the talk..."
 Side note, the sunset in Forgotten Hollow is beautiful!
 Piper heard all about the new cat so she had to come along for cuddles, being a Cat Lover too.
 Meanwhile I was cuddling my grandson, Beckett.
 I got to use Super Efficient Baby Care for the first time on a baby that wasn't mine. 
 Back home in the pool, I accidentally discovered first-person camera mode and it turned out artsy.
 Evangeline serving looks.
 Indie being silly.
 Silly girls.
 Such cuties.
 Toddler butts.
 Iris on a jog.
 Meanwhile, Ralph had invited me over.  He said he had a surprise for me.  When I went over, I came across this!  My newborn grandson, Royce.  Here he is being fed by his mum, Izumi.  His dad is my 56th baby, Ralph.  I never even knew they were expecting!  
 Cuddles with nanna.
 I had the joy of aging him up, too!
 What a sweetie.
 Some random woman set me up on a blind date and I thought, why not?  I don't have any fathers lined up.  This was my date.  His name is Randolph Cowart. 
 The date was at Paddywack's Emporium in Magnolia Promenade.  There was this unsavoury charlatan there.  I had a sneaking suspicion that he was the one who turned Caleb and his sister Lilith.
 I started singing on the street, and people actually liked it!
 I found a skating rink nearby!  Seriously, I have probably only been to Magnolia Promenade once or twice - I need to go more often!
 I had a slip at the exact moment I found out that my halfway baby, Aiden, had passed away.
 Back home, everyone was sad.
 Bronte, who hates children, even hugged Augie!
 For some reason, Iris was being very cordial with the maid. 
I'd say that's more than cordial.
 Piper is trying to give Evangeline a bath whilst flirty Iris looks at herself in the mirror.
 I caught Bronte punching Blarffy.
 She sure had some choice looks for him.
Stinky but sweet.
 Meanwhile, over at the Bailey-Moons, Amelia had some news for Orange - they were expecting again!
 Amelia invited me over to tell me the good news.
 A swim with a view.  An incredibly low-resolution view, but a view nonetheless.
 I thought this was a cool addition to the affluent neighbourhood of Del Sol Valley.
 I was feeling nostalgic.  You may remember this humble abode - our first home.
 Opening the front door it was like I had stepped back in time.
I had no doubt that the dirty floor was caused by a fire we had before we moved.
Ah, the balloons from the many birthday parties we had.  I'm sure we had Sage and Kaya's birthday just before we moved (Babies 5 and 6!). Behind me is the high chair that my early children used.
The easel that kept us afloat in the early years...
The original kids' bedroom, turned into the toddler room.
 The original bathroom.
 The living area.
 The upstairs.  To think I managed to turn this little home in a three bathroom, four bedroom one.
 I spotted Louis walking past!
 We got a selfie.
 Gosh, it had been years since I'd been back to Willow Creek.  This definitely wasn't in our neighbourhood when we lived here.  How times have changed.
And then I remember this magical tree.  (side note - never noticed the shipping containers across the canal when we lived here!)
 I entered it.
 The glade was just a beautiful as I remembered.  I had been here twice before.
 There were pretty butterflies and creepy eyes.
Fishing, I came across a cowplant berry!  Finally!  I had found one once before - they were growing, strangely, in a plant box at the spice festival once.  I picked it but when I went looking for it later, it had disappeared from my inventory!
 I found this picture from the last time I was in Sylvan Glade.  My, look how different I was!  I was so big!  And I only had 10 children at this point.  Now I have 63 and I've reached physical perfection.  My, how I've changed.
 I rushed home to plant my cowberry before it could disappear on me again.
Little horns coming through!
 Bronte is out jogging.  Make no mistake, she's jogging out of fear - I am throwing my first toddler play date!
Helping little Royce on the slide.
 Indie goes down alone - look at the face on it!
 A bit of a crash landing and she's upset momentarily.
With my grandson Brielle, Amelia and Orange's daughter, who doesn't look very happy.  For some reason I couldn't invite Beckett to the toddler play date.  It would have been so cool to have five toddler cousins/aunts/niece/nephews playing together.  I'll have to throw another one before the twins age up. This is a rare occurrence that may never happen again!
 This is an angry pout.
 This is a sad pout.
And this is my daughter and my maid ruffling feathers in my bed.

Babies 62 and 63

 Holly, the fittest elder I ever did see.  She is going to outlive her fellow triplet brothers, as she has completed the Bodybuilder aspiration. 
 Elder Louis.
 Maisie, Louis, Aiden and me playing cards.
 Uh oh, labour time.
And I break out into a rash just as I give birth to my 8th set of girl/girl twins!  My last three sets of twins have all been girls, and they're all currently living at home, with only Augie to break up the oestrogen (and the twinning).  Baby 62 is Indie Britton and Baby 63 is Evangeline Blaire.
Sophie is stoked about her new little sisters.
Augie and spider lashes- ahem, Iris, playing together. 
Augie really is the sweetest boy.
Like her twin, Bronte is happy about Indie and Evangeline. 
Well, well, Maisie is here and she is no longer pregnant!  She had a son called Beckett.  I found it strange that she gave her son the same name as her brother (Baby 42), but they never met and she liked the name, so he is now Beckett Westbrook II!
 She has also finally gotten the cat she has longed for (being a Cat Lover).
Meet Truman Westbrook-Vatore!
 Indie and Evangeline!
Well, Caleb junior has aged up! 
Baby 61, Augie, as a child.  He gained the Happy Toddler and Bookworm traits, and has the Whiz Kid aspiration.  He is a Caleb clone, just like I knew he would be!  (Side note, he has 62 half siblings through me and 3 half siblings through Caleb - in addition to Beckett, Caleb has toddler twin sons called Rickey and Charlie with a random woman called Rieko Sakamoto.  It's like he is trying to populate Sim City with vampire sons... (it is yet to be seen whether any of said sons are actually vampires yet).)

 Iris feeds Indie.
 Louis is here to help out.
Looks like it's birthday time again!  But first, Piper has to take a selfie.
 And then she spins!
A rather stripy Iris is next to blow out her candles.
And she grows up a little curvier!
 I had to get Sophie to blow out her candles, and I found her playing dolls with her dad Ryan, which was cute.
 Bronte next!
 Go Sophie!
 Baby 57, Iris Hannah, as a young adult!  She gained the Romantic and Good Manners traits.
Baby 58, Piper Louise, as a young adult!  She gained the Loves Outdoors, Emotional Control and Responsible traits.
Baby 59, Sophie, as a teen.  She gained the Genius trait and has the Archaeology Scholar aspiration, only my second child (after Baby 44 Elliot) to have that one.
 Baby 60, Bronte, as a teen.  She surprisingly gained the Hates Children trait!  She is my first child to have that trait.  Maybe it's growing up in a huge family?  She also has the Master Mixologist aspiration, only my second child to have it after Baby 20 Briar (it really was that long ago.  Also, their names are the only two to start with 'Br' - I swear I don't do this on purpose!).
Bronte, Tiffany (Baby 53 Finley's daughter) and Rory (Baby 50 Aiden's son). 
Amelia has also had her baby!  She had a daughter called Brielle.
 Uh oh.  I accidentally left my new vampire lore encyclopaedia in Augie's room.
 Augie: "What in the world?"
 "Mum, what's a vampire?"
 "Uhhh..."
 "Well, you see..."
 "How about you ask your dad that one, bud."
 Sophie is the opposite to her twin, as she feeds Evangeline.
 And now she's going to help me age the babies up!
 Baby 62, Indie, as a toddler.  She is Angelic.
Baby 63, Evangeline, as a toddler.  She is Fussy.  I am instantly reminded of Babies 35 and 36, River and Melody.  They were my twins where one had my hair colour and the other had yellow (I'm sorry but that's not blonde!  I only have yellow-haired girls, no blonde.  I do have several blonde sons though).  And to make it more freaky, both Arden-hair-coloured girls (Melody and Indie) had the Angelic trait as a toddler!  History really does keep repeating itself.