Laurince Legacy, Generation 10.3!
Let's start with a little bit of LULZ. Look at Iris's head! For some reason, her hairstyle in maternity wear is that stupid braid bun. Nothing I do will change it...luckily, she's never in maternity wear except here.
This is pretty much a sum up of Jaina and Jadzia.
Hey sis!
HAHAHAHA OH LOOK WE GET A PINK ROOM NOW BECAUSE WE'RE GIRLS!
I like pink.
HAHAHAHA
Aw, it's so adorable, they're off to their first day of school. (Jacen's already on the bus.)
With a maid to do chores, the garden in tip-top shape, the kids off to school, and Griff and Hannah at work, there's not much else for these guys to do.
I've got a big one here, Iris!
You sure do...
HEY NOW. NONE OF THAT BULLSHIT.
Aw, look, how cute coming off of the bus...WAIT, I got that "the kids didn't go to school today glitch again." So the triplets all have D- grades.
LOL DADDY OUR TEACHER SAID WE WERE RETARDED!
I hate this school crap!
Iris lost so much asp, her meter's gone, and look at Griff's wants and fears.
Wants: Teach kids not to be stupid.
Fear: Have another stupid kid.
Mommy, can you help make sense of this weird crap they're trying to teach us at school? I think our teacher is just crazy and...
Sure!
Homework party on the front lawn!
Iris decides it's time to mention the impending addition to the family.
Jacen, again, is nowhere near the rest of his family.
Mr. Note, you don't think I'm stupid, do you?
NO, JACEN, YOU ARE RICH IN THE ~FORCE~
Oh yeah, great timing with the kid announcement there. Oh well, the girls had to learn about the miracle of life sometime!
Uh...I think something's wrong with the baby. And you'd think birthing would be old hat to Alan now, being virtually immortal and constantly invited to the main house and all.
It's a boy, Julian, with dark skin, black hair, and GREEN eyes. Which explains a lot--Griff must have been one of the recipients of my "give Veronaville townies random recessive genetics because they're all Maxis and fucking boring" project months and months ago--now I know how Jacen received an obviously recessive eyecolor from Iris despite Griff's brown eyes.
EVERYONE in this house loves babies. You would think Hannah, at least, being the eldest of 10 children, would be sick of them at this point.
But no, she immediately goes to IM everyone about her new grandbaby. Or maybe she's just sending CC: emails to all of her siblings.
I don't know who's creepier here, Jacen, or that red-haired/pink-shirted child of the corn.
That is a very interesting video game they've got picked out, though, isn't it?
So let's have another one, baby!
...I gave birth last night, Griff.
Pleeeeaaaase? One will grow up much more quickly than three.
By the exhausted look on Iris's face and that damned lullaby Griff's smug expression, the spermination must have been successful.
You like babies so much, honeycakes? Take this one. He's due to fill his diaper any minute now.
Griff does love his OWN babies. Which makes his rage over previous generations' babies' poo even more hilarious.
Jaina is the only intelligent, mentally balanced triplet, unfortunately. Jadzia here? Trying to nap in the living room with the stereo blaring. Jaina? She's going to go sleep in her BED.
Where's Jacen, you ask?
Alone again, but more importantly, also napping. Outside. In October. It's not like we're in a first gen shack short on beds, kids!
Uh oh...she's not even showing yet, and this isn't the nausea groans!
Dammit, Griff...women aren't meant to be perpetually pregnant, it's nice to give their bodies a bit of a break! Even fucking GRACE knew that!
Despite my liberal use of sleepclocks nowadays, Hannah still manages to get up at like 4am to tuck in the grandkids. It's adorable, but it means she's already on her way to being tired before work at 10.
Iris tries to play with her loner son, but doesn't get very far.
GRR!
Who's that one, sweetie, and what is he doing?
His name is Anakin and he's killing ALL THE SAND PEOPLE!
Poor Iris. I thought she'd miscarried, because her comfort bar randomly tanked to the bottom and she started growling. I actually put her on bed rest, the poor thing.
After her completely silent first trimester with Julian, this pregnancy was horrible.
Well, the kids went to school already and I have the day off. Let's say we--
Whatever. It's not like you can impregnate me any more. Douche.
Iris's bed rest interfered with her stay-at-home-mom-ing. So Hannah did the honors at Julian's first birthday.
OH MY GOD IT'S MINI-GRIFF
HEE. I love it. And, if I decide to continue on past this generation, it completely takes him out of heir running. But it's still hilarious. <3 Julian.
Also awesome. Julian ages up, and Hannah wants to invite over Iris's father, maybe so he can finally meet his grandchildren. Alas, his wife Eve said he was at work, and I soon had too much going on to get Jules over to the house.
At least this will stop the puking, though I'm still keeping her on light duty.
I wondered why Hannah wasn't sleeping after I sent her to bed, and I saw this.
While it's an improvement on Jadzia's part, I thought Jaina knew she had a bed. GET OUT OF YOUR GRANDPARENT'S ROOM. If nothing else, you don't want to know what sort of things live in the beds of romance sims until you're old enough to make an informed decision!
Kids are really hard to keep on a sleep schedule, if they hate school like these guys and come home from school exhausted. So they wake up on Sunday morning at 3am from sleep schedule skewing. I made them WORK OUT.
They are obviously inspired to be ~fierce~ because of the Eliza whistle-blowing portrait.
GRRRRRRRRRL POWER
Jaina, you look way too cool and collected for fierce Laurince workout time.
That's as good as it's going to get with her, folks.
I've almost filled up all my shelves. If I'm going to continue on, I'll need more photo shelving!
Well, if your father was a maid for 400 years, hopefully you'd be indoctrinated into cleaning things...right?
Hannah helps out with skilling Julian, since Iris is out of commission.
Oh god, it's Griff's deranged smile on the face of a new generation!
Jacen: Otherwordly, ethereal, polite laugh.
Jadzia: GUFFAW
I lamented this waaaaay back in Gen 3 when I married in Anna who had the same template, but Griff's nose? NON EXISTANT on toddlers.
So...using a custom-fied version of christianlov's skin changer, I gave Jacen Enayla's Pixie Chocolate. Not only is it the same series of skins as his siblings, but it's close to his coloring. He looks so much better this way.
Now that I can walk, no one can keep me away from THE TOILETS!
I haven't seen this before: being afraid a toddler wouldn't want to play with you. Hell, I didn't know they COULD.
Julian likes getting attention, though.
You are SO CUTE I WANT TO SQUISH YOUR FACE!
Shut up. Just because I haven't done anything but change the wallpaper and carpet since Gen 8's triplet boys moved out doesn't mean you can critique my ~decorative skillz~!
Ratna pulls a page out of the Deszo Laurince book of attraction:
Damn, you are so hot when touching our son-in-law in vaguely inappropriate ways!
Can you say bottle, Jule-Jule?
Yesh. Bottle. I can has?
Griff lets his mother-in-law know that, despite her age, he still appreciates her...err...child-rearing skills. Yeah.
I love how those almond-shaped eyes Jacen and Jaina inherited from their mother are just perfect for snarky expressions.
All right, Dad, but can you explain to me how shoving them in your mouth enhances the culinary process?
Jadzia's got Griff's eyes, but somehow doesn't get the crazy mean expressions. She's basically perpetually :D.
How again does speaking into a fake podium in my house help me learn to win friends and influence people? *waves hand* There are not the droids you are looking for? *shrugs*
Iris: still pregnant. Since it's not a sure thing this time around, *grumble*.
She must think she's channeling the earth mother goddess, all fruitful in the greenhouse with the fruit. Or something.
It'll be just a little while before that thing inside of you can play with you on the see-saw, honey.
Now look at this! Hannah and Jacen look more alike than I first thought, huh?
Once upon a time, there was a little bear named Lujian. And he lived with his triplet brother and sisters, his Game Developer Grandma, Rock God Grandpa, Big-Time Hollywood Producer Daddy, and Big-Time Baby Bear Producer Mommy in a house in...Bearonaville!
...dis not about a BEAR!
It was right here that I realized that the skin changer didn't change his skin permanently. Crap. Well, live with this one for the rest of the update...I changed it with SimPE after I exited the game, so in the future, Jacen will look as good as his siblings.
There is just one baby in there. Believe me, I checked. I have ONE Star Trek/Wars name left to use for J, and it's unisex, and then we're all done!
Hello, Jaina, darling! Come give your dad a big hug!
Uh, I'll hug you if you can add 15/16s to .085 faster than me. If not, I'll just keep on with this assignment.
...
Not that Jaina never has any fun. I love their random school friend here.
I'm sitting here with girls playing video games. AWESOME!
The one downside to en suite bathroom set-ups. Scarring your sim-kids for life just because they happened to pee when the other bathrooms were occupied.
Mommy! I hav not see you in gabillion years.
Luckily, ginormously pregnant bellies make decent toddler shelfs.
Lovely family picture again. (Notice lack of Jacen AGAIN.)
Also, I see actual napping taking place. WHO TURNED OFF THE RADIO? MR. NOTE HAS NOT BEEN ABSENT IN THIS HOUSE SINCE IT WAS BUILT!
Julian gets set down so Iris can shoot out baby #5.
Unlike Grace's shennanigans, having a buttload of kids that made no one happy but her...everyone here?
WE LOVE BABIES!
It's a girl, with black hair and brown eyes. I was kinda hoping for a kid with Iris's. Oh well. Her name is Jolee. Even though Jolee Bindo is a guy, the name sounds girly enough, don't it?
Griff chose the moment of his daughter's birth to "kiss lightly" Hannah. And Iris freaks her shit out.
See now, everyone knows Griff tapped that back in the day, but they haven't done anything inappropriate (besides that one private hit-on) since way before Iris hit puberty. And a peck to your mother-in-law in celebration of a birth doesn't seem horrible.
Then again, hormonal wife sees hubby touch a former flame, and...well...
It's okay, honey, mommy is just a little insecure because grandma knew daddy first.
For once, Jadzia is not chortling like a madwoman.
So Iris obviously won't share a bed with Griff and I'm not letting him in one of the kids' rooms, he gets a pallet on the floor. Night-night.
Iris immerses herself in her baby, since there's nothing else for her at that moment, and Hannah has a good look at Jaina.
I hope you're not angry, honey...
Of course not. I'm HAPPY my dad cheated on my mom with my grandma in front of my face.
I found this one surprising, since Romance sims generally don't get very angry about cheating with ACR. I saw this when Ratna popped out of bed, refusing to sleep with Hannah.
There was only one place to put him...
Iris accomplishes a full hunger bar for the first time since...probably before she was pregnant with Julian.
I'm glad Iris is all "BZUH" at having to share a bed with her stepfather. However, they're not pissed at each other.
I'm wondering if his dreams are all of the pure type, though...
Aaaaaand Julian awakes in the middle of the night with a mostly full hunger bar, yet heads straight for the rancid bottle in the kitchen.
Ughhhh...ICKY?
The SMART is not strong with this one.
At least Griff wants to fix his marriage, right?
That's cold. Really cold. (Though I suppose falling BACK in love with hubby would count, huh?)
How ROMANCE sims deal with infidelity, a pictorial lesson:
Hey sweetie, my wife is at work. Why don't you come over?
OH GOD, Ratna. Your stepson's fiancee? I know you guys have three bolts and all, but...
...and this occurs without any prior contact more intimate than phone calls or pillow fights.
I'm not sure that this is a good idea, since you are my fiance's stepfather...
THEN WHY ARE YOU THERE?
And why are you humping him in a hot tub and professing your love, huh?
Oh for godsakes, Pamela, at least Griff protested profusely about interacting with his employers' family for years! The kid's twelve!
Hates school, loves non-fiction? Odd.
You know that when the maid is scaring Griff, that you've hit new levels of screw-up service sims!
I'm sorry honey, but it was just a peck of happiness.
Why wouldn't you kiss the MOTHER OF THE CHILD THAT YOU JUST HAD TO HAVE EVEN THOUGH IT ALMOST KILLED ME first?! Answer that, bucko!
Iris isn't that easy to win back over.
Griff decides it's time to age up his clone.
LOL at Jacen snickering that Julian aged up in the same outfit that he already wears.
I hope the new maid Pamela didn't have any access to that birthday cake!
Deep down, Iris wants to mend things. Which means I need to put her on birth control sooner rather than later.
Though apparently, Griff still is angry about her overreaction. It was overreaction, but totally justified! Keep your lips off of your wife's mother!
They're getting along again. All it takes is evening the score, for romance sims, it seems.
In a bit of foreshadowing, both Jadzia and Jacen want to go out and play in the snow as soon as it falls.
This is a little odd...I wonder why their levels of furiosity differ. I guess Jaina really is that level-headed?
Even though it snowed for hours and hours and I was expecting a snow day, it was not to be. Julian was excited to have his first day of school, anyway.
And since the evening is going to be birthday-palooza, I decide to stop postponing the inevitable. Last shot of adult Ratna.
Not too bad, and I got to keep transition clothes on for once!
For the occasion, I aged up the school friend one of the kids brought home. I feel sorry for V-ville's perpetual children sometimes.
Iris teaches Julian to study, though she looks a bit unsure of herself. Luckily, Jaina's there to help!
HOREY!
Iris wanted to throw a birthday party. Enter stage right: Isaac, Ivan, Hester, and Hayden Laurince.
Enter stage left: random teen friend of Iris's, Isis and Hollie Laurince.
I've shown you double birthdays before, even triple birthdays. Well, here's a new one: QUADRUPLE BIRTHDAY
Really, I've had trouble getting two synced up this well, and I managed four. (PATS SELF ON BACK)
Jadzia
Jaina
Jolee
Jacen--LOL, shirt
Jolee got madeover first, since she didn't have cake-eating in her queue. And who is she staring up at?
Hollie. Oh no, and another generation may yet be fooled by Hollie's faux-happy exterior.
Jadzia rolled Pleasure, with the LTW of 50 First Dates, and I luff her. I like her looks a lot.
All the kids of this gen are insanely cute, though. Jaina rolled Fortune, with the LTW of Making 100,000.
Jacen rolled Pleasure, and I just couldn't EMO up a pleasure sim. His LTW is TBA, since for some reason, he didn't roll his upon his "age up well" want being fulfilled like his sisters. (I did give him eyeliner, though, see?)
The party rocked:
Hannah and Ratna made up FOR REALZ.
Iris deigned to touch her husband, so I put her on the pill.
Ivan got fat. Obviously didn't realize I gave all the kids the SAME DAMN CAKE and sampled some of each.
And no Laurince party is complete without the epic ongoing struggle of HOLLIE VS. HESTER.
I keep thinking about picking an heir. IT'S GEN 10, DAMMIT.
By the way, I'm playing another update of these guys before I do another Henson one. Cause I can. Also, the sooner I finish them, the sooner I can play the Delines. I miss them.
I don't want to stop playing these guys, though...HALP.