Not the same

Round 28: Winter 2028

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Luc Lane is 35, Asha is 31 and Ruby is 1.
(Linnea is 68, Steve is 33, Olivia is 31 and Ramona is 1)

Narrated by Luc Lane

Asha had a little freak-out when she found out she was pregnant with Ruby but we've both adapted to parenthood pretty well.


Ruby is a pretty great little kid and we've both been enjoying her.

She does produce an awful lot of stink for such a little person though!

Life didn't change much after we got married but Ruby changed everything.

Those lazy sleep-ins that we used to love so much? They're over.

Ruby's a morning person, apparently.

She's not at all shy about screaming her lungs out if we don't come and let her out of her crib as soon as she wakes up.

She's all smiles once she's finally free.

Ruby just hates not being able to get around on her own. She hates it when we leave her in her high chair a little too long as well.

Any kid in this house is going to be raised around music, no question.

I think Ruby could be a rock star one day. She took to nursery rhymes so fast! She can't actually pronounce the words properly but she babbles along with me, kind of in tune.

She's pretty good with her xylophone too. Ruby really loves that thing! We'll have to wait a while before we can get her behind the drums or a guitar.

Asha is just about to go back to work after maternity leave, so she's home with Ruby most of the time.

I feel like I've missed out on a lot of time with Ruby, being at work. She took her first steps one night while I was working.

Asha recounted the event in great detail but it's not the same as actually being there.

I try to make up for it when I am home but I'd love to take a whole stretch of time off. It's not looking like it's going to happen soon though.

Asha and I still get time to ourselves but we need to work harder to squeeze it in now.

For the first time since we moved here, I'm actually glad Mum lives so close.

If we want to go out, Mum is usually more than happy to watch Ruby for a while.

So they get some grandmother-granddaughter bonding time, Asha and I get to go and do something and everybody's happy.

A nanny is another option for us too. We never thought it would be but we've got more money in the bank than we did a couple of years ago, and hiring people seems a little more affordable.

Asha and I usually head back to one of the old clubs we used to go to and it's almost like old times.

I think we're getting old though. We seem to get worn out so much faster than we used to!

All our friends have kids now too, so we all get together sometimes. Steve and Olivia live closest to us, so we see them most often.

It's easier for us to catch up with the kids than without.

Asha and Olivia really got closer when they were pregnant at the same time and now they're trying their best to make sure Ruby and Ramona are best buddies one day.

I think they're a little young for that. They play together but neither of them really show too much interest in the other.

But I'll settle for Ruby just learning to play nicely with other kids, especially because she's going to be a big sister next year!

We were trying but it was still a surprise. Last time, Asha had morning sickness from the second she got pregnant up until about six months. This time, she's just been really moody. It's unusual for her to be like that, but pregnancy didn't cross my mind.

But Asha insisted that she just had a feeling and she asked if I'd come to the doctor with her.

Asha took a test at home, so we kind of knew what was coming but it was still exciting to get it confirmed.

Asha wasn't too impressed when I asked Cara if there was a possibility it'd be twins. Like I'd "jinx" it just by saying it! Asha doesn't think she could handle three under three, but I bet we could. People have done it before.

But having one more baby is going to be pretty amazing too.

I'll just have to keep working on her and see if I can convince her to have any more after Number 2!

Extras:Here's Ruby's dungeon nursery. Poor kid, it really looked like a prison cell before I redecorated! I think those walls and floors work fine in the rest of the house but it looked so wrong in Ruby's room!

In other news, I still love the posing parts posebox. It is awesome - so many possibilities and I haven't even played with the arms yet! I would have posed Luc like this at the hospital, had I not been so absent-minded and remembered to enable the box for community lots.

But if I had used that box, I don't think Ruby would have been quite so adorable She was singing nursery rhymes to herself the whole time. I love how Cara and Asha look like they're totally charmed by her.

Notes:

• Title is from Not the Same by Ben Folds.
• Ruby is a seriously hard toddler to keep happy! Her fun seems to be constantly in the red/orange, so she whines for attention all the time. Despite their extremely difficult child, Luc and Asha are really cute with her. I usually find Romance Sims to be pretty good parents, in terms of wants and Luc and Asha are in that mold.
• In ACR, Luc's ideal family is 4 and Asha's is 2. I figure if they try again after this one, then Luc will have been successful in his attempts to convince her.
• I was hoping Luc and Asha would take a little longer to conceive again this time and they actually did. They tried for a baby 4 or 5 times before Asha got pregnant. I would have preferred they held off until next round but they're not allowed to use BC, so this is the kind of randomness I've brought upon myself. Ruby and Baby #2 will be about 2 years apart and real siblings are often that close together, so I figure it's okay.
• This has complicated my birthday posts slightly though, because I'm switching to months next round. Seeing this is the end of winter, I'm going to assume they conceived in August. So I'll bump Asha to her second trimester in Spring 2028 birthdays and she'll enter her third trimester in February 2029 and give birth in May.
• Oh yes, and the ROS. Luc rolled the Get a Gold Badge ROS, which he did not complete. He's working on his gold badge in toys though and he got up to bronze. I'll get him working on it again next time. I crashed near the end of my play session, during Asha and Luc's date and then forgot to get pics of Ruby playing with Luc's toys when I reloaded the next day. Blogging fail!