#scarabaldi

This is Auberon, where I went back to an earlier save, which means that Pauline Scarabaldi just is about to deliver her first child for the third time. She’s probably ready to strangle me… She and her husband Joe live half a block away from the hospital, so apparently Joe interprets _taking her there_ as him running there, looking determined, with her following, laboriously walking like a duck (and now ready to strangle Joe as well). When she gets there, he’s waiting and contemplating his terrible back pain that he got learning to rock climb at the Fall Festival. Aww… poor thing! The pain, the pain - is nothing to what your wife is experiencing, you plonker! Same thing on the way back: Joe runs ahead, Pauline follows with their newborn son, yet again named Zebulon, because that’s the name the game gave him years ago, when I was playing these sims for the first time. Well, after that Pauline decided she needed to treat herself to a night out on town, so she went the following evening, and party animal Joe got to stay home with the baby. See that simmie shimmie.

I reinstalled my game recently, and somehow, my latest save of Auberon got lost in transistion!  And I thought I had been so careful and backed up everything. Thankfully I had an old save from before Christmas on an extern disc. Joe and Pauline are back in the old apartment, but at least she is already pregnant with their first child. The woman in pink is (of course) a paparazzi, whom I evendently haven’t made over yet. A sight that makes for sore eyes…

It’s Anita’s birthday. She was already Athletic, Ambitious and Brave and now she’s also Handy, which comes in handy (!!) because she recently chose The Tinkerer as her LTW.

Anita, Joe’s daughter from a previous relationship, has joined him, Pauline and little Zebulon i their new apartment. She seems to be liking it.

Room enough for a whole bunch of children.

Pauline keeps working on her career even if she’s already on maternity leave - she actually manages to get a promotion to Editor in Chief before the baby arrives. (My sims are pregant for 504 hours and start walking like ducks 24 hours before it’s time to give birth.) One foggy morning at the end of Autumn it’s time. I had Joe active and clicked “take to hospital” and then of course they ended up taking Pauline’s car with her at the wheel. This game...

Welcome Zebulon Scarabaldi! You are Athletic and Love the Outdoors. No matter how you really will grow up to look, you will still get the looks of the original Zebulon. And you will have a sister named Courtney. Originally they were twins, but I’ll settle for a very small gap in time between these siblings. I foresee a lot of watermelons in the near future for you, Pauline. They “forgot” Pauline’s car at the hospital and took Joe’s limo back home (he’s in level 8 of the Professional Sport career). They didn’t stay for long there though. It was time to move to something more posh and “grown-up”, they have money enough. Also, the game informed me that Joe’s ex, Lisa, is expecting her third child with husband Alan Goodwin. That means that their house will become rather crowded, so Anita (Joe’s daughter with Lisa) will move in with him and Pauline instead. She’ll become a teenager in just a couple of days, so I’ll wait until then.

Later that same day, since it is the best day this summer (clear weather but not too hot), Joe and Pauline go the Summer Festival where they by pure chance meet parts of Pauline’s family. Joe has been swimming and exercising, so he is very tired and has to take a nap before he can do anything else. Pauline choses to have a snow cone together with her father, Robert. Her mother, Martha, proves to a spry old lady. When Joe wakes up, he joins the fun by asking Eva, the wife of Pauline’s brother Pete, to dance.