Teenage FBI

Round 19: Spring 2009

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Xanthia is 78, Tate is 39, Zelda is 34 and Josie is 7
(Araminta is 46 and Anna is 31).

Narrated by Zelda Benton

So we didn't think it was going to happen but it did! I'm finally pregnant again. I'm still a year off qualifying for fertility treatments so that we were able to fall pregnant naturally was a relief.



I told Mum straight away, who was thrilled of course. She always wanted to have more children and was unable, so grandchildren are the next best thing for her. She totally dotes on Josie, and on Ione and Finn too, my sister's kids.

Telling Josie was the next task. She seemed pretty receptive to the idea, even suggesting that she could teach the baby how to play soccer when he/she was old enough.

Truthfully though, I don't know. Josie is a little spoiled. She's used to have the undivided attention of three adults and a baby will change that.

She'll have to start sharing her toys eventually, and I don't know how well she's going to take to that.

I got the idea to write a children's book about a new baby coming into the family, to maybe prepare Josie for what it will be like. It's not finished yet but hopefully it will be before the baby arrives. Who knows though? I've been so tired and sitting in front of the computer makes me even sleepier.

I didn't feel like going into work so I stayed home and invited my big sister to come and keep me company.

Araminta was almost as excited as Tate and I were about this pregnancy. She knows how long we've been trying and how much we want this baby.

Mum was working when Araminta came over (yep, still working at 78!) but of course, having both her girls at home with her is her favourite thing, so we ended up all having dinner together too.

I'm glad our last memory of Mum was a happy one. I know 78 years is a long time but I had hoped she'd be around a little longer, at least to meet the new baby.

My friend Anna dropped by when she heard about Mum, which was nice of her. Not to mention completely out of character.

Perhaps impending motherhood is softening her up. She even let me rub her belly.

But no, she's still the same Anna. I started sniffling about Mum at one point and Anna looked around awkwardly before pulling out her Rubik's Sphere. Oh well. Touchy feely stuff was never her strong point.

It seems like when it rains, it pours. Not a week after Mum died, Tate and I found out that I'd miscarried our baby. Tate wants to try again but I don't know if I can take the possibility of another miscarriage. Maybe we should try to adopt instead. We'd be giving a home and a loving family to a child who doesn't have one.

Random pic:

Anna had this look frozen on her face for a while and I just think it's perfect for her! I think she's angry about the maternity wear the game has picked out for her, which is not her style at all. I'd pick something else out for her but it wouldn't stick anyway. And I really wish Maxis had fixed the belly bug. It really irritates me to see a woman in her second trimester with a third trimester belly. Stop ruining my continuity, Maxis!

Notes:

• Adoption or fertility treatments? Next time I play Zelda, she'll be old enough. But if I can find a hack that lets adopting a baby fulfill the "Have a Baby" want (and vice versa, because that would be handy too), I might just have them adopt. I could control the gender that way too. Hmmm.
• It really seems like Inteen has it out for poor Zelda and Tate. For 34, she's already weirdly infertile and now a miscarriage. It seems like it runs in the family because Xanthia had trouble conceiving both Araminta and Zelda.
• RIP Xanthia! She was a sweetheart.
• This family is so close! Ione and Finn call Zelda all the time and before she died, Xanthia had the wish for Ione to get a scholarship. I have never seen that wish from a grandparent unless they were living with the grandchild.
• This post marks the end of Spring 2009. Profiles have already been updated for 2010, because I'm a sick, sick woman and actually enjoy doing tedious things like that. Summer 2009-2010 will start with the birthdays post. It'll be a busy post too, with 4 age-ups and Tatiana and Jonas's baby!
• I did Claudia and Victoria's makeovers today. They needed them more than Calvin and Troy did but they turned out to be much easier to fix. All they really needed was their mouths moved down and to be made a little larger. I didn't want to make them look beautiful - just a little more normal looking. They still have creases in their face but I think those will smooth out naturally. I don't think I could get rid of those without changing their faces a lot, and I don't want to do that.

Soooo...

Claudia before:
Claudia after:
Victoria before:


Victoria after:
Looking at them, I think the difference is really small but I'm much happier with them now.