Bebe Populous was excited to be having her sixth child, and to be having a child with her husband, Asa. However, she was increasingly becoming concerned about the mouths she had to feed and the cost of her growing family. She was saving up for something very important and she needed every penny, but her family couldn’t go without, either.
She decided to enquire at the local corner shop to see whether they’d be interested in any of the produce she’d been growing, or any of the the fish that Cameron and Annalise had fished up that they didn’t deem suitable for their ‘perfect’ aquairum. To her surprise and relief, she was able to make a decent profit.
Asa, Annalise and Brad encouraged her to take some time away from the home while she had chance before the birth. She chose to spend time at the library reading new recipe books. She was getting very into her cookery and found she was becoming rather skilled at it.
While she was out, she had a phone call from her neighbour, Leighton Sekemoto, who asked if she’d repair his broken stereo in return for a small payment. She loved doing these little jobs for people – it gave her some more income and it also helped her to get to know her neighbours better.
Asa Populous was very excited about the imminent arrival of his first child, but he loved Bebe’s other five children, and when baby Eddie came up to having his birthday, it was his devoted stepfather who took him from his crib.
Eddie was generally a happy baby, and he seemed to become a happy toddler as well. Although his wailing cry still pierced Bebe’s heart, the family were generally used to the difference between him and the others, and even Cameron, initially afraid, had grown to love his little brother.
Declan and Eddie happily played together, and Bebe and Asa were confident that they’d welcome their little brother or sister without many problems.
And that baby was a healthy, happy little boy. Bebe allowed Asa to name his son, and he chose the name Fitzy. She wasn’t entirely keen but allowing Asa this small concession was the least she could do, considering all she was asking of him as her husband.
Asa loved Fitzy from the moment the boy was born and couldn’t wait to start helping his son learn important things like walking, talking and using the potty. He wondered whether he would have any more children. He hoped so, but he was slightly concerned that every time he asked Bebe whether she would have more children with him, she changed the subject. Bebe had always had such a love for children – what if it was something about him that was putting her off having more of them together?
While baby Fitzy was settling into the Populous household, his brother and sister were out at the beach, fishing as they usually did.
Annalise inspected her freshly caught blowfish carefully – she realised it was perfect. It was the last fish they needed to complete their perfect aquarium, to fulfil their dream…
Bebe bought her children surprise presents – lovely large aquariums to hold their collection. She was so pleased to see two of her children fulfil their dreams – and she could afford to purchase them now, as she had finally saved up for something she herself had been dreaming of for a long time…
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May 7, 2010 at 5:47 pm
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May 7, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Lovely update! I love the name Fitzy!
Good Bebe doesn’t have white or cream carpets. Eddie would be camouflaged too well for us to see him.
Aha, I sense a real break-through coming up soon. 😉
May 7, 2010 at 6:20 pm
You might do well to trust that Spidey sense…
May 7, 2010 at 6:21 pm
Oooh, I wonder what the thing she’s saving up for is!
Poor Asa. What’s he going to do when Bebe tells him she’s pregnant with another man’s baby… and another’s… and another’s… unless Bebe’s clever enough to convince him all the rest are his, too?
May 7, 2010 at 11:51 pm
Well, well. There’s a full house at the moment so no baby 7 just yet to see how it pans out, but Annalise IS only a couple of days off being a YA at this point…
May 7, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Yay! The fishing and gardening pay off in more ways than one!
So did both the kids get their lifetime want fulfilled? Two perfect aquaria weren’t necessary?
May 7, 2010 at 11:54 pm
Yes they both did! (And yes the big tanks count)
I wasn’t expecting that to happen, I was grooming Cameron to take over from his sister in the deathfish business but he rolled up that LTW too and for kids I don’t get good parenting points for (i.e. the ability to choose all five traits), I am taking their first rolled LTW (see the rules).
I wasn’t expecting it to fulfil for both of them when Annalise caught her 13th perfect fish but it did!
May 7, 2010 at 7:00 pm
I thought that each one would need a the perfect 13.They used to before WA anyway. Welldone on getting that tedious thing out the way. If only they had a death fish or two.
Bigger house? Spa treatment sims always want a spa treatment, or a better bed/stove/fridge. Or atwrk. Always with the art and sculptures.
In the first ghost toddler pic (screenshot 389) what is the squarey looking thing with the blue detailing in the background.
May 7, 2010 at 11:57 pm
It’s a bin! They can’t afford the compactor yet.
May 7, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Eddie will really make for an interesting child…I can’t wait to see how that works out.
Fitzy is a cute name! Is it short for Fitzwilliam?
The children have their LTWs already! Wow! You really are a challenge goddess. 🙂
May 8, 2010 at 12:00 am
Fitzy is (geek time) the nickname of Dan Fitzgerald, a character on Neighbours. My naming theme is Neighbours (just for my own amusement but I figured they’d overrun the neighbourhood in time so it was apt) but I couldn’t think of any male characters whose first names begin with F (and Eddie was only a minor character as well). Lots of female ones, no male ones – so that was my best compromise. I wasn’t expecting five boys in a row!
Not all the children are going to get their LTWs (i.e. if they roll up one that they can’t fulfil until they are a YA), but for the ones that roll up a potentially doable one, I’m going to try my hardest. I don’t fancy just making them all fish to get some easy points though, as that wouldn’t be much of a challenge.
May 9, 2010 at 11:18 pm
Right on!
May 9, 2010 at 2:08 pm
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May 9, 2010 at 11:52 pm
I was thinking…FIVE boys in a row? OMG…hmmm…well. You might have to start using numbers or something LOL! and now that you mentioned running over the neighborhood, isn’t Bebe’s brood going to sort of take over the world?
May 10, 2010 at 7:13 am
Funny you should say that. Am thinking about that very issue…
Boys galore! My other family had a boy during this time as well, there were serious worries about the game being biased…
June 8, 2014 at 4:05 pm
My game has done the gender thing too, through the generations. In the legacy I’m playing now, I had 3 girls through the first 3 generations (out of 17 kids total), and now in the later generations I’ve had 13 girls and only 5 boys. I guess it really is random. Though annoying when half the neighborhood is the same gender as my kids – I don’t want to force them all to be gay, just to have some boy/girlfriends!
Interested to see what this big purchase is, you’ve been building the suspense quite well over the past few chapters.
June 9, 2014 at 12:06 am
Ah yes…. 😉