You say it's your birthday, Summer 2027

Steve and Olivia Nihill have about six months to go until the arrival of Baby Nihill!

In preparation for the baby, Steve and Olivia have bought a lovely old brownstone in Exeter. The rooftop garden is already their favourite part.

Baby Nihill is due in Winter 2027.

Also expecting a baby this winter are Luc Lane and Asha Royce. Asha is a tiny bit more relaxed now that she's had some time to get used to the idea of a baby but even in her second trimester, she's still suffering from morning sickness.

Back in Sullivan, Olivia and Asha's friend Lia Nott is going into labour! Perhaps twins have melted Gordon's brain, because he doesn't look like he knows what to do.

Thankfully, they make it to the hospital where Gabriel Benjamin Nott is born!

Josie Benton has just begun her internship and Lia is one of her first patients.

Josie has completed three years of medical school where all she could do was observe and she's thrilled to finally be doing something practical.

This year, her every move will be watched and assessed by Dr. David Sitko. Next year, Josie will be able to practise independently.

There are two little girls turning one in Sullivan this summer!

The first is Alice Jacobson, daughter of Claudio and Virginia Jacobson and half-sister of Matilda. No toddler pics of her parents but she looks like she's the spitting image of Claudio, with Virginia's colouring.

The other one-year-old is Sylvia Draper!

She appears to bear absolutely no resemblance to her biological mother, Adrienne. She looks exactly like her dad.

Well, Sabastian has grey eyes and Sylvia has blue, which comes from Adrienne's side. Other than that, she's her dad all over!

Shortly before her birthday, Sylvia was officially adopted by Rose and Joanna and is now busy getting to know her new parents.

Rose and Joanna are having a ball with Sylvia so far. She's a very outgoing little girl - or at least, as outgoing as someone can be when they're not yet very verbal!

They're both so relieved the home study is over and that they've finally got their little girl living with them, where she belongs.

Brendan Lachance has just turned 4. No more babies left at home for Tatiana!

Caitlin Romilly will be joining Brendan in his pre-school class. Hopefully, they'll make friends a little easier now that they're older.

Corbin and Pamela Gray's daughter Lucy is now 12. Her lifetime goal is to be an expert in five different areas of study. Her dad is a bookworm and her mother is a teacher, so that seems somewhat appropriate!

Chris Draper is also about to start high school. When he grows up, he'd like to be a city planner.

Chris will be joined in Grade 7 by his best friend Edward Lachance. Edward eventually aims to get into a career in oceanography. Lucky that aquarium just recently opened up!

Tessa Novak is 18 and about to start her first year at Suffolk University. She wants to go into business when she graduates but hasn't yet chosen a major.

Rebecca Kirby hasn't chosen a major yet either. In fact, she still doesn't have a clue what she wants to do with her life after university and is hoping inspiration will strike sometime before graduation!

Speaking of graduation, Sarah Carmody's four years of university are finally over! Her parents Betsy and Kimberly and her younger sister Susannah were there to cheer her on.

Sarah worked very hard during her time at Suffolk and managed to graduate with a 4.0 GPA.

Now that she's back home in Sullivan, she'll be living with her parents while studying for her Master's in architecture, with the ultimate aim for a job as a city planner.

Outtake:

I want to go back to doing outtakes as they come up, rather than a big bunch at the end of the round. So in that spirit, I give you...

The expressions on their faces are just cracking me up! I love that Steve just happened to look over while Olivia's belly was popping.

Notes:

• Profiles are all updated, as is the Play Schedule for Round 28, the student index and the Playable NPCs post. The Playable NPCs post has new family pics for the Jacobsons and the Grays. Go and see for yourself how much Alice looks like her daddy!
• If you guessed that Olivia and Steve love the rooftop garden because that's the only part of the house that's decorated properly, you'd be right, lol! They've got plenty of money to furnish but I was feeling lazy and the house came with the garden already done.
• If only you could see below Lia's arm in the picture of her with Gordon and Gabriel! It's just a mass of fingers poking through arms and arms impaling stomachs. But the part of the picture you can see turned out exactly as I pictured it in my mind. Well...if I'm being nitpicky (and I almost always am), I'd like Gordon's head to be lowered a little more but that was as good as I could get it. I hate the one of Lia on the bed with Josie next to her but I think I've just this second figured out a way to do that better next time, so hopefully it will work out.
• Joanna and Rose are really sweet with Sylvia - I was so excited to finalise this adoption. When the social worker dropped Sylvia off (she was still a baby then), Joanna immediately rolled up the want to study parenting and once she aged to toddler, Rose rolled the want to teach her to talk. That amused me, seeing they seem like appropriate wants for a Knowledge Sim and a Popularity Sim (especially seeing my Popularity Sims often don't roll many wants for their kids at all).
• Man, Rebecca is so hard to find a hairstyle for! As an adult, she looks even more like Trent in drag and in the Change Appearance screen, she looks very harsh. When she's smiling and moving around, she's much better.