Devil in the water

Round 15: Days 71-75

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Narrated by Debbie Lane

Linnea and I have been slightly at odds lately. We're not fighting or anything but basically, I'm ready for a child and she's not quite there. That's kind of what Icarus here was about. Linnea felt the best way to prepare for parenthood was to test ourselves on a parrot first. I think we should just jump in. I don't think there's anything that can quite prepare you for parenthood. Nothing's really comparable to an actual baby.

So we're still talking. I had sort of a lightbulb moment when Linnea became all buddy-buddy with Caterina, our neighbour, recently.

Like I said, I believe nothing can really prepare you for parenthood but I thought that maybe being around a cute baby might get Linnea feeling a little clucky. So I volunteered myself and Linnea for some babysitting one afternoon.

And you know what? We didn't do half badly!

Max is a really sweet little boy.

He was eager to show us both his musical skills and I think Linnea was pretty charmed by the little tyke. How could you not be though?

So I left it for a while and eventually, Linnea broached the baby subject again and she finally agreed we might be ready to give parenthood a try.

Obviously, we can't conceive a child the traditional way but reproductive technology is amazing these days. So the child Linnea is now carrying will be biologically ours. Linnea decided she'd be the one to carry the baby. There's nothing she likes more than time off work (this picture was taken when she got home from her last day) and pregnancy will give her quite a while off.

I don't know if she wagered on her morning sickness being quite as severe as it was though.

Once she was past the first trimester though, she was feeling pretty good. She felt good enough to try out the tai chi I taught her and is getting better all the time. I can't believe that I taught Linnea the health nut something fitness-related. I really thought she knew it all.

She's certainly not lonely at home on maternity leave. Floyd works weird hours so he's home during the day and our friend Leo lives in an apartment across the road and he's over a lot too.

When she is at home alone, she tries to teach Icarus to talk. I don't know what kind of a conversationalist he'd be but it amuses Linnea, so I leave it alone.

We've both become really eager for this baby to be born already! Or babies, I should say. We're having twins!

Notes:

• Yay for babies! This was not chosen by Linnea or Debbie but gay Sims never roll up the want to have a baby and in my game, they never seem to roll up the want to adopt either. So I'll be family planning for the gay Sims.