You say it's your birthday, January 2033

A few months after Patience's miscarriage, she and Rob decided to start trying again and ended up conceiving almost immediately! Patience has just entered her second trimester and is due in July.

Marcus Lane, Luc and Asha's eldest son, is now four years old and ready for pre-school.

Joining him is Charlotte Lane, youngest child and only daughter of Eliot and Cordy.

There are also five new 12-year-olds this year, the first being Xavier Moretti. He'd better start studying hard, as he'd one day like to be Attorney-General.

Twin brother Justin is more interested in things of a scientific nature and would like to be an ecological consultant.

Justin and Xavier's cousin Declan is set to be just as studious as a teen as he was as a child. He's hoping to go to university and become an architect.

Lauren Carmody plans to follow in her mother's footsteps and go into journalism.
Lauren's twin brother Austin doesn't really have any clue what he wants to do when he grows up; he just wants a ton of friends. At least 30, to be exact!

Chris Draper has just moved to campus and has picked Art as his major. He hopes to go on to complete his Master's and work in city planning when he graduates.

Chris's best friend, Edward Lachance is living in the dorms with him (and with his big sister Audrey). Edward wants to be an oceanographer when he finishes uni, so he's majoring in Biology.

Edward's girlfriend, Lucy Gray, did not get into college so she's entering the workforce instead. She's currently working as an apprentice hairdresser at Kimberly Carmody's salon.

Lucy's big sister Julia did go to college and has just graduated!

Julia majored in Mathematics and earned a 4.0 GPA.

She is now living in an apartment with best friend Hope Collins and is working as a substitute teacher.

Hope is the only other graduate this year.

She didn't do quite as well as Julia, attaining a 3.6 GPA. She now has a degree in Biology.

Hope is planning to work in the natural science field eventually but jobs in that industry are thin on the ground right now. To pay the bills, she's working as a record store clerk instead.

Spam:
I promised Charlotte spam before I aged her up, seeing her big brother kind of took over the last Lane update. ;) Speaking of Tim, Charlotte looks so much more like him than I thought she did!

Anyway, commence spam!


And an extra one of Declan.

I was going to use this one for his profile but I ended up liking the candid one better.

Notes:

• Okay, how cute is Marcus? I was a bit meh on him as a toddler, to be honest, but I think he's totally adorable as a child!
• The new teens' aspirations are: Xavier - Popularity/Family, Justin - Knowledge, Declan - Knowledge/Family, Lauren - Romance and Austin - Popularity/Pleasure.
• I'm so happy with Declan, even though his first LTW was "Become Rock God". That's so not him! City Planner was the second one, which I like a lot better for him. Seems like a good job for a serious Sim like him and it'll mean he has to get his Master's and I like the idea of him doing post-grad.
• Julia got cheated into her chosen career because of her 4.0 GPA (and because I'm a bit kinder to my playable NPCs anyway). Hope will have to wait but her GPA will get her into natural science within 5 years, an idea which I think I stole from Laura!
• The two dormies woohooing on the couch at the end of my last college update have moved into an apartment together, to be played as playable NPCs. It wasn't something I was planning on but when I was making them over, I noticed that the male dormie looked kind of like Amar! So he got a new name and I fixed him up in SimPE so that he and Amar are now brothers. You can read a little bit more about Zane and his girlfriend Chloe in the playable NPCs post.