Household recap:
Shawn (father/elder)
Alisa (mother/adult)
Ash (bonus boy/young adult/green)
Brittany (Ash’s wife/young adult)
Boone (bonus boy/teen/yellow)
Persephone (girl #12/teen/lilac)
Cora (Ash’s daughter/infant/purple)
Delilah (Ash’s daughter/infant/lime)
To check up on those who’ve already moved out, you can view the Murdle family tree. Also, if you find yourself wanting a Murdle of your very own, up top at the Family tab is where you can grab .sim downloads of them once they hit young adult. 🙂
Last time, prom went swimmingly for Boone & Persephone (and dates), Brittany gave birth to Ash’s twins, and then Ash & Brittany had a lovely beach wedding. Then I took a huge break to do a new story during September (it’s still in progress; you can check it out here: We’ve Got Spirits ). I’m back to wrap up the Murdles because they really are thisclose to being done.
Ash and Brittany come home from their beach wedding and immediately dote on their girls. (Delilah is the redhead held by Ash, Cora has dark hair and is in Brittany’s arms.)
It’s time for Boone’s birthday, which I forgot. It’s also a full moon, which I forgot. He was outside on the telescope, and I forgot. Random zombie tries to attack.. thankfully the birthday celebration action takes precedence.
Newly young adult Boone tosses a cocky look at the zombie creeper.
Here’s the requisite in-stylist-mode pic of Boone. He honestly doesn’t look much different, and I can’t recall what trait he got (this was from gameplay this summer). I’ll update when I upload him to the family tab.
Ah yes, twin infants. Both squalling. Sounds to me like they both need some cake too.
And so off they go to be aged up as well.
Cora
Delilah
Better pic of Cora. Apparently did not get an un-crosseyed pic of Delilah.
Brittany took Cora off to start learning to walk
While Ash did the same with Delilah
Persephone is spending her final days building her sculpting skill.
Grandma Alisa is fantastic about keeping those girls on the same schedule. (She’s putting Delilah to bed too, not waking her up.)
Ash is out fishing.
After the girls’ rest, Alisa teaches Cora to talk (man does this girl look like her daddy or what?)
Shawn works with Delilah
Yay girls! Hygiene and cleanliness are both important!
Ash.. still fishing. Our backyard pond is stocked with deathfish thanks to him, so he’s building himself up the ranks of fisherman. I think he’s at 9. I don’t think he’ll reach 10.
The girls can talk, so the grandparents swap kids and finish out the walking skill.
They had already learned to potty thanks to grandma shoving them back on the seat until they figured it out. LOL
Glitched up Brittany is leveling painting. I have her change clothes after this and she’s fine. I wish I could figure out what it is that gives me the “basement cat” sims like this. None of her outfits in CAS look to have CC in them.
Persephone starts a new sculpture.
My last needed Murdle heading off to her final day of school.
Cora loves her imaginary friend. I leave her to it because I won’t be having to deal with it as she ages. LOL
Delilah thinks this sheep is the bomb diggity.
To bed with the both of them.
Persephone wraps up her second sculpture – this giant head that turned out to be worth $20 or something. Pretty sure that much clay would be worth more than that in materials alone.
No time to carry on though.. it’s birthday time for the baby of the family!
*horns of celebration*
*clapping because he doesn’t have to raise any more children*
Persephone as a young adult.
She gave this face just after discovering that being grown up means you’re gonna make your own food if you’re hungry. LOL (Seriously, she aged up, whined about hunger, I directed her to cook, and she gave me this shocked look. Ah, baby-of-the-family problems.)
And Persephone’s official young adult pic. Like Boone, she got a trait. Also like Boone, I don’t recall it. I’ll add it when I upload her. 🙂
Pics of the toddlers cuz they’re adorable.
And Brittany is chained to the easel until she wraps up Persephone’s portrait.
At this point, my Murdle challenge is technically done. 12 boys & 12 girls have been raised (plus some bonus kids). However, I’m sure I’ll make one more post. My own goal has been to have each of the Murdle 2.0’s have at least one child (and beyond that was totally up to SP). I imagine I’ll post up pics of what all the Murdle descendants look like. May upload one or two of my faves for use in We’ve Got Spirits. This challenge was fun for me, but after the first 12 or so kids, I definitely was ready to move on to a new set of parents. I love seeing the way genetics blend in TS3, and so having just the same two parents the whole time wore on me after a bit. Though it did shock me just how dominant some features seemed to be (like I think there was something ridiculous like 5 out of 28 kids that got Shawn’s nose.) I started out trying to keep score but.. enh.. I like it better without points. 🙂
And we’ll start it off with Prom! Look at my lovely babies. ❤
Randal showed up at the house… and then stayed, watching the tv rather than getting into the limo to go to prom. At least you can see the non-vamped cuteness.
Shawn’s daycare day is wrapping up, but vampire baby is staying late.
And as if finally realizing he should be at prom with her, Randal stands up and is all “Looks like it’s time to leave.” and bolts out the door. LOL Better late than never.
Also, Brittany popped out of work early, which can only mean one thing.. belly pop! Whee! A tiny Ash is incoming.
-Boone boogied to the stage to accept his crown and suggested to everyone that the school needed a prank! The chaperones were not too happy with him! (And I think the punch might have been spiked as this does not sound like chill, slightly nerdy, Boone.)
So I check in with Ash, who is still happily fishing in the backyard. But what’s this in his queue? “Accuse of cheating”? Gah! Your PREGNANT FIANCEE came straight home from work (where the only bandmate she knows is her MOTHER) and has been painting the whole time. Why do you think she’s cheating? And why can this crappy action not be cancelled? I’m hoping that you forget about it when she goes into labor. You can just fish until then. 😛 Or maybe just a quick reset to fix you up. You’re not even a countable sim, so I feel no remorse about a cheat-y move if it works. 😉 (It does work! Yay!)
This was, I believe, Persephone hitting her lifetime want. She was busy upgrading the.. fireplace. With a hammer. Because Sims.
And busy at the easel is our resident preggo.
Here’s the new daycare kid. I took a pic. Chances are high that it’s a Murdle of some sort. Chances are even higher that I have no clue what relation or what her name is.
She gets potty trained (it’s the first thing I do with all the daycare kids), then they set about teaching the two yellow-shirt-tots to talk.
And because there aren’t enough younglings up in here, Brittany chooses this moment to drop the payload.
And because we have Ash, and Brittany, we follow the alphabet right along and here we see Cora. She has traits I’m sure, and appears to like purple (or maybe spiceberry.)
Oh yes, and because we had two spaces in the house at time of birth, of course the game filled them both up. Meet Delilah. She likes lime.
But at least it was for a good reason. ❤ Ash & Brittany headed off to the beach to get married by the light of the setting sun. I will now bombard you with photos from that, because I went a little screenshot crazy. Feel free to just skip the rest of this update. It’s all just (gorgeous!) photos (of my favorite, even despite the stupid glitchy jealousy that at least went away after reset.)
Alisa is working on that inventing gig. Still. She keeps climbing ranks in that career, but her babies also keep aging up so she’ll likely not hit the top.
Ash is out back fishing. No shocker there. He’s always fishing. LOL If I remember right, his high school girlfriend hadn’t aged up yet, so it’s not like he has anything else to do. 😉
He thinks she’s pretty dreamy.
They chat for a bit..
Back at home, Hemlock is all “I can’t get to the bathroom because ABSO-FREAKING-LUTELY NOTHING is in my way!” I have him use his happiness points on a motive mobile for himself and send him to his girlfriend’s house. LOL
Still fishing.
Searching the galaxy to make sure he and Julie aren’t star-crossed.
Being lovely
And dead to the world. Okay not DEAD like literally. Just figuratively. Literally he’s just “old and tired to the world” I guess.
Ash: “Hey, Brittany, I heard you finally had your birthday. Wanna come over?”
She arrived and he auto walked up to her as I went “awww” in my head and settled back to see the lovey-doveyness.
New daycare day! No chance I know the names of the kids, but in front is one of Fee’s girls with her vampire baby.
Speaking of romance, prom’s like tomorrow and Persephone still needs a date. I had her call up her two friends from school. Randal here was the only one that felt like coming over. He’ll do.
Aw, and she agrees. Heart-farts all ’round.
Awesome joke potential aside, I couldn’t handle another forever-alive person in town. Also, Persephone doesn’t want some dude that’s gonna look younger than her in ten years time. So she 
He’s adorable un-vamped too (I’m sure there are pics in the light later on where you can see.) Persephone wastes no time.
And… look who can be romantical now! I finally remembered that Shawn had bought the mood manager thing. I had him “cure” the grumpiness from these two and it worked! Now if I could just get one of those mood managers in real life.. LOL
And stuff. 😉
One of the tots from last time grew up, so this cutie appeared instead. Might be Dexter’s kid? He had purpley eyes.
I figure I’ll move Lakisha out with Primrose soon (Prim’s LTW is a job one, so there’s no way I’m completing that for her), but in the meantime I send her to become a firefighter. Hm, so maybe there wasn’t a coward trait. (Or maybe there was and I just figured she could face her fear. LOL)
Aww, Ash. What’s wrong? Why so sad?
Must have been because he wasn’t fishing yet. LOL
Boone. Srsly. Get a real friend. Don’t sneakily stay behind at school to whip this undeletable toy out.
Ta-da! 
And then she whips around to cheer her triplet on.
Woot, way to age up, Ash!
And finally Hemlock puts down his brush so he can age up as well. Mom bothers to cheer him on (she ignored the other two.)
And a trifecta of good-looking young adult Murdles is completed in one fell swoop.
And oh yeah. It’s Boone’s birthday too. He’s out on the porch star-gazing when the camera pans to him. I don’t even remember to put up the walls before taking the pic.
There we go, a teenage Boone. He gained the Hopeless Romantic trait. Poor thing.
Here’s Lakisha, making me jealous. I want a firepole. It would be so much more fun than stairs.
And I’m no longer jealous. LOL The lazy is strong with me. 😉 Oh, and since I had the game open to look up traits for all the birthday people up there, I checked Lakisha’s as well. Coward, Angler, Perfectionist, Over-Emotional, and Clumsy. At least she’s pretty. And all the young adults are now up for grabs on the Family tab. 🙂
Death fish from our stocked home pond. 🙂
Prim heads off to finally win that gardening competition. I’ll be moving her and Lakisha out soon.
I send the girls out to find potential mates before moving them out. Lakisha spots a redhead and takes the short route to friendship.
Then they apparently flirt until she’s stinky. He accepts her kiss anyway.
Primrose chats up this fairy who moved to town around the same time her folks did. She doesn’t get as far as Lakisha, but close enough.
I caught this face on Ash. Why is he thinking of mom while looking betrayed?
A quick scan back to find Alisa and we find her and Persephone gossiping. Ugh, you guys. Be nice to my sweet little Ash! I love my bonus Murdle.
Here we have an idiot zombie politely waiting to attack Boone. I’m just gonna let Boone stay fishing instead.
Portraits of the two countable triplets? Checkaroo.
Persephone is a tiny little Iron Chef with that oven.
I can only assume that Boone got in trouble and Ash here is letting him off the hook.
Boone’s face.. LOL It looks like he wants very much to share some choice words with his brother, but also doesn’t want to risk the whole letting off the hook thing.
Random sight around town – this dude aged up into headband hair. LOL Also, he’s unique looking and has no Murdle ties, so I decided that Primrose (who I moved out earlier) had just decided to be a single parent and this fellow was a donor. 😛 (aka I Master Controller’d her a baby with him. This way she has a kid even if SP doesn’t pair her off officially)
Hemlock keeps changing into this outfit/hair instead. I keep changing him back. I eventually get too lazy to change him back, so this is here to let you know that it’s him if you see pics of a Murdle dressed like this.
Persephone had that lame sell a baked goods wish again. We went to city hall as I figured we’d be able to get the final family pic there when she sold her treat. Finally someone snagged one.
Only just in time. I forgot it was her birthday.
Half the town cheers her on.. lol..
Shimmer sparkle..
Ta-da! It’s a dark pic, but she’s pretty anyway. She rolls and gets the Savvy Sculptor trait, which I haven’t had yet.
Then Shawn & Alisa take a photo with the last four Murdle children to arrive.
Mom’s still tied to the inventing bench so she can creep up that career.
Primrose is watching TV, gardening most likely, and waiting for another shot at that gardening competition.
Ash is – where else – fishing.
This time Boone’s fishing too. This is the “goldfish” side of the backyard pond though. Ash stocked up the other side with death fish, so that’s where he’s at.
And so she does.
Ash heads off to the beach to fish for other varieties.
Boone is on the laptop doing something. Perhaps making internet friends instead of imaginary ones.
Persephone is rocking out some muffins.
How’d you do, Primrose?
Ah. Not first place, I see.
Ugh, the “sell a baked good” wish is the worst. It takes so long. At least the kids are cute while waiting.
I finally set everything to like a dollar. I’d pay someone to buy it if I could just to knock out that want. Thankfully, this lady buys something.
And then I go on a tour of the town as the sun sets because it’s purdy.
Ash remembers he has homework and sits down to do it in the last rays of the weekend.
Shawn & Alisa are boogeying down when the doorbell rings. They ignore it and continue dancing.
Here she is. Her name is Rachael. She’s adorable.
And this is.. well, I can’t recall for sure. But I think it was a relative, and so it’s probably Piper’s great-grandson, Reinaldo. Yeah, there are Murdle great-great grandbabies in town. LOL Just a couple though.
Time for Boone’s ballet recital!
Hurry up everyone, he’s getting all testing waiting on you.
Hemlock skipped the recital to stay over at this girl’s house. I’m blanking on her name. We’ll call her Caitlin. *shrug* He went home with her and I’m pretty sure that she is genetically linked to Poppy from my legacy story, so I approve. I queue up a bunch of friendly & romantic spam.
Later that night, while heading out for more deathfish, Ash comes across this lovely lady.
They bond over mutual hydrophobia.
Ash fixes her with an adorable look..
…and swoops in for a kiss.
Then he makes it official so story progression can’t pair her up with someone else, and I can send him off to get those deathfish.
Boone is busily searching the galaxy. He rolled a want to find 5 stars, so I have him on this any chance I can. I figure that will keep him away from his IF. LOL
Rachael is drug in, armless and through the floor, by a glitched up sim the next morning.
Cute toddlers are cute!!
Alisa is struck with the tragic clown curse on her trip through the LLAMA.
Even made up as a clown she’s gorgeous. She downs a cure potion and is back to normal.
Mena comes running over to greet mom. Every. Time. 🙂
I got an alert that Vera (one of Fee’s twins, the dark haired sim here.. who basically looks like Fee with black hair LOL) had finally gotten engaged to her girlfriend. I went to hunt them down. Aww, they’re adorable! I get probably more (good) updates about this couple than any other in my game so I was wondering when SP would get around to marrying them.
And then…look what comes backing out of our time machine! Our final Murdle!
And she’s old. 😯 Are all future babies old? I’ve only ever done the past, and they both came out as teen.
Well, I can fix that right up. We’ve got a full set of potions, so here, take this young again potion.
Ah, much better.
I call this series Primrose Learns to Drive, But Not Well. You’ll see we start off by having the motive mobile veer off the road.
The passenger wasn’t in the van at the time however. He was instead found hovering, unrendered, half a lot away.
The driver was even more horrifically unrendered, and somehow floating a distance behind the passenger and van.
And then when they got home, Primrose planted a booby trap on the computer.
Alisa had been behind a closed door in a completely different room, but you don’t become a mom to literally dozens of kids and not know when they’re up to something, so she comes to rip into Prim.
This was handled gracefully as expected by our little hot-head.
Last look at our last smush-face toddler. So bittersweet! Persephone spins & sparkles…
and ta-da! She’s a big kid now! With a big trait that I big-time forgot. 🙂
A better pic of her. She does look different than anyone else, I think because she has dad’s nose but mom’s wider face shape. I know the only other girl to get dad’s nose was Opal, and she had a narrower face.
Working on knocking out wishes, Ash went to the cemetery down the road to fish for deathfish. To keep the curfew police happy, Shawn went along.
Success! And he immediately rolled a wish to catch a perfect one.
In the morning, Homer decides to try to fish too.
Ash is off to the beach to look for new, previously-uncaught types of fish.
Shawn’s still hanging at the cemetery, catching up on reading.
Alisa is chained to the inventing bench, making many floating ducks.
Hemlock checks to see if anyone noticed that mistake he just made when painting. (I totally did, Hemlock.)
Primrose was still asleep, so no pic there. And our two youngest appear to be bickering about something.
Ash is looking sassy while he snags these ocean fish.
Boone is adorable, catching those bandits (aka his sister I’m sure. LOL)
Persephone goes to grab some leftover steak for lunch.
PrimroseBoone moves on to less adorable things. Theoretically, he was coming out to seesaw with Persephone.
One of Primrose’s first wishes as a child was to win a gardening competition. Well, she’s finally old enough to enter, and it’s a weekend so no pesky school. I click to it to send her on her way….and apparently she decided to take a bike rather than taxi. She gets there after AGES, and is so eager that she runs THROUGH the gate without even waiting for it to open. Unfortunately it was all for naught.. too late. Competition is over. *sigh* We’ll try again tomorrow.
As for today.. it’s Homer’s birthday! Let’s see, what to wish, what to wish… (betting he wished his parents loved him enough to not leave him in a cave centuries ago).
A-ha, he wished for a less lame hairstyle. LOL
He got dad’s bountiful body hair though. LOL
Official young adult stylist mode pic of him. I left him in whatever he decided to wear.
Homer & Shawn have a, um, heartfelt good-bye where neither will even look at the other.
And with that, the baby from the past is released into the present to build a life for himself if story progression will let him. (And with a little help from me if it won’t, as I want each Murdle kid to have at least one baby. :P)
Boone & friend strike again. He always finds the most out of the way places to play with that thing so I don’t notice right away.. you know, like until Ash’s portrait is turning red from hunger and I click to see why he’s not just getting one of our billion leftovers from the fridge and.. oh. Because Boone needed to play with Riley RIGHT THERE.
Well, with one space empty in the house, and one more spot in the basement gallery room, I have Alisa & Shawn go for the matched set of time machine babies. They’re trying in the future this time.
Apparently the future does not take kindly to that kind of behavior. LOL I figure if this doesn’t work out, I’ll just bite the bullet and let someone turn their imaginary friend real and count that as the final Murdle, since I have all the ones needed for the challenge anyway. So I’ll leave you on that cliffhanger.. do we get a future baby, or do we have to put up with imaginary friendliness? And where has my motivation gone now that I’m this close to the end? (Seriously, in gameplay I have like FIVE SIM DAYS and I just can’t be bothered right now. Motivation, come baaack!)
We’ll start this update in my favorite way – with toddlers!
Persephone is getting skilled. Knocking out walking here…
…followed by pottying, and then immediately sitting and learning to talk. I love her little face. She looks a bit different than others, which is pretty impressive when you’re kid #26. LOL
I stopped toddler-gazing to check in with the others and found this: Shawn scolding Homer. I’m not sure for what.
And poor Homer looks like he might rather head back and take his chances with whoever was shooting arrows at him when he came through the time machine. I make Shawn let him off the hook since I don’t even know what he did, but also the poor kid just got here.
Persephone sneaks a moment to play in the toy box since she has learned all the basics.
Someone comes along and swoops her up and stuffs her into the crib despite her not being tired enough to sleep. I make them release her from captivity and she and Boone have fun with the toddler toys until they truly are tired. I have fun looking at the two of them since even though they have the same coloring, they appear to have different features. 🙂
Prom is tonight (Xavier missed it by a day, the trips will miss it by a day the other way. Good thing Homer showed up. LOL) I was curious to see what Homer would wear as his formal wear – would it be throwback clothes as well? Nope, apparently he arrived with a powder blue tux. And also shaggy hair. Knock ’em dead, kiddo! (There was actually nothing of real note that happened at his prom.)
The next morning, Ash & Primrose are playing hopscotch. Prim steps on the square with the rock.
Ash, in true brother form, squeal with not-so-secret glee that his sister is losing. LOL
Adorable toddlers are adorable.
Soon though, Boone is scooped up as it’s time for his birthday.
Ta-da!
My brain is mush and I can’t recall what he rolled, but he gets both glasses AND freckles. (For anyone downloading my simmies, the freckles I use are just “costume makeup” so they won’t actually have freckles in their genes. Feel free to add if you wish. Or don’t. Or freckle everone, I don’t mind. 🙂 I think in my game Alisa, Prairie, Elias, Toby, Ash, and Boone are the ones with freckles.)
These three were all at the school for something. Primrose’s scouting ceremony maybe?
The triplets were all in the study when it struck birthday o’clock.
The youngest triplet was the quickest to drop other actions from his queue and so Ash got to age first.
Still a cutie!
Hemlock went next. These guys pay no mind to birth order or to “ladies first.”
Ta-da! I believe he rolled Slob. He seems surprised.
She actually reminds me of Fee in feature-shape, but definitely different coloring. 🙂
Ash is back to spending all his time fishing
Primrose was chatting on the phone
Hemlock went to check out the tables full of fish bowls that suddenly appeared in the back yard. 😉
I couldn’t see Boone, so I clicked to zoom to him and found him hiding in the bathroom so that he could play with the imaginary friend doll that keeps popping back into his inventory.
Hemlock: “Do you HAVE to wear that to school?”
Shawn made it! Top of the career!
Random descendant pic – I came across Toby & Belle Messorem’s girl, Jennifer. I gave her a 30-second makeover mainly just to give her freckles too. Touched no sliders though.
Shawn is sent off to hold his first psychic convention. I figure if it goes well, I’ll let him stay at this job the rest of the time.
Ash catches a shark and shows it off. With his bare hand.
Persephone is busy crushing gender stereotypes.
Boone was star gazing but then…shower? I don’t know.
I need to remember to look at Homer’s traits. He often changes into his formal outfit to go to his part-time job.
Speaking of jobs, I finally just accepted that the daycare career is borked for Alisa. No one has shown up since the triplets were born. Even with maternity leave adding up, it should have restarted. I’m too lazy to try switching lots or anything this late in the challenge. So she joins the inventor career. We’ll see how far she can get in that.
Welp, Shawn’s psychic convention sucked. LOL I’ll likely make him switch jobs too (we have a million simoleans, money is not an issue), but for now.. what’s this?
He’s aging up to an elder! Thank goodness Eugenie (I think) had been randomly out & about and cheered her dad on.
Here’s a real proper look at him. Don’t look so worried, Shawn. You make a cute little old man.
So the sun sets over a happy Murdle household as they know they’ve done their part to contribute to the vast overcrowding situation in Moonlight Falls.
Oh look what we have here. It’s baby Boone dumped unceremoniously on the floor of the Lounge. *checks to see who brought him there* Shawn? Well Shawn can just take him right on home then.
And even though it’s only like an hour until he’d age on his own, I get him a cake. The sunset is gone, I’m ready for a toddler.
And so a toddler we have! Dressed in his yellow duds before the birthday derp face has even left.
There we go. Adorable even with uncrossed eyes.
And mom decides to sit with him in the puddle of amniotic fluid that’s still there from Persephone’s birth earlier that day and teach Boone to talk about bonfires.
One of the triplets had gone home with Elias’ son with Grace, so I swung by to have a look. Ooo man, Nathanael sure favors his mom, eh? Definitely has her jaw at least.
It must have been Hemlock who was over there. It was nearing curfew, so I sent him to the nearest LLAMA to port home. He came out as a tragic clown. *sigh* Mom’s training Boone so I send Shawn in to make the cure potion. He’s decently high in skill but hasn’t really USED the thing.
My boy Ash is.. still rolling wishes for fishes. By this point, he now wishes to “catch all types of fish” but he’s been working on his “catch X goldfish” wishes thanks to our stocked backyard pond. (It had goldfish, trout, and lobster in it thanks to Briar.)
Well. That could have gone better. *sigh* Try again Shawn. And your boy is getting Cured first, so the longer you muck it up, the longer it takes for you to get Cured.
Primrose is working on her wish to find a star. (She succeeded, and named it Moppet because why not.)
Clown! Birthday cake! And so much sadness.
In better news, Boone mastered talking and Alisa moved them out of the puddle of broken waters to teach him to walk.
Finally, Shawn was successful at making a Cure potion – a batch of 2, actually. 
One Cure potion was given to Boone. No more tragedy!
(small break because my boy Ash completed that “catch 5(? 10?) goldfish want” and looked adorable doing so.)
And Shawn was allowed the other Cure potion to de-frog himself, though the horrid memory is still fresh in his mind.
Primrose and a book. (*shrug* I’m sure it seemed significant at the time. Or maybe I’m just trying to make sure I show her as much as her brothers.)
Boone wrapped up walking, and with one final potty trip before bed, he has learned all of his skills in quick order. Woot!
And because it still hasn’t gotten old to me – look! All six kids sleeping peacefully at the same time! (I can remember when I had a real life infant, toddler, and child at once…this was a Big Freaking Deal, and I only had one of each at the time. LOL I think that’s why I feel so accomplished when my sims get it to happen too.)
The next morning, Hemlock & Shawn chat. I like to imagine that Shawn’s apologizing for making Hemlock be stuck as a sad sad clown for so long.
Primrose is chatting up mom, meanwhile. Cute!
Ash is tabletting (most likely setting up a tabcast. We tabcast all the time.)
Boone just got fed by Xavier.
Who then moved on to Persephone.
Later, Primrose throws a fit that the dirty muffin plate SHE wanted to wash is unreachable. Because it’s in the dishwasher, having just been placed there by Xavier.
Boone is cowboying his little heart out.
Prim decides to take out her frustration by beating Mom at a game. She chooses chess.
Ash heads to the beach to expand the variety of things he’s caught (and continues to roll nothing but fish wishes. Pretty sure he’s destined for the perfect aquarium wish.)
Toddler! Adorableness playing a xylophone.
Xavier plays with Persephone
And what even IS this expression? LOL He’s not being devious or evil or anything other than helpful and sweet towards his baby sister.
Hemlock give mom a hug, daydreaming of the day he becomes an illustrious author. (Which means you need to get a move on on your painting skill, buster.)
Primrose is still stuck with the wish to make a ninja vanish potion, because she made the imaginary friend one instead. Ugh. I mean.. yay, Prim, way to discover a thing for those creepy dolls I won’t let y’all touch!
*smooshes his widdle cheekers* Being a musical genius and having aced the xylophone like nobody’s business, Boone has moved on to the peg box.
Xavier has a birthday today!
He ages up and who can remember what he rolled because his face was totally stealing the show.
Official Stylist mode shot. I still think he looks quite a bit like dad-with-mom’s-coloring, but not exact enough for me to be sure (and I was too lazy to CAS him and check slider numbers). Whatever it is, it’s a nice combination.
One more birthday pic of him and I’m done. Promise. Despite his amazing looks, he didn’t stick around. I had Alisa paint his portrait and then moved him out to a sibling’s house to get established.
Boone is still plugging away at the block box skill.
Alisa and Shawn made a little journey to the past.
And then, it was time for another birthday, for baby Persephone!
Shimmer-sparkle.. and she’s adorable too! I thought I got an un-crosseyed pic but I’m sure there will be more.
Boone! No! You put that thing down.
And what’s this?
Why a Murdle baby from the past, of course. Meet Homer. Despite talking like a caveman (and referencing a cave) in the notification, he showed up dressed in medieval garb.
Primrose rolled a ton of potion wishes – discover a potion, make a ninja vanish potion, and (the moment I let her touch the potion table) discover all potions. So off she goes. I don’t remember what this is, but it’s not ninja vanish.
My sweet little Ash has checked the baking report and made some muffins.
Dexter’s portrait turned out better than Eugenie’s. This bothered me, so Alisa called her over so she could try again. LOL While here, Hemlock runs up to pull faces at her.
And she does them right back. I love this sibling-y picture. 🙂
Ash went off to try and catch a fish.. and promptly fell on his patoot on the cast. It’s okay little man. No one saw. Except me. And now the internet.
But he try-tries again, and is much more successful.
School time for all the school-aged kids
This means grown-up time for the grown-ups *eyebrow waggle*
A little magic in the wardrobe. 😉
Double finger guns from Shawn earns giggles from Alisa.
It would appear that trying for a baby inside a wardrobe is great stress relief (I can’t imagine it being anything but awkward at best.)
Then it’s off to work… like a boss.
Ash is…wishin’ for fishin’. 🙂 He wished to catch a gold fish, then once he caught it, he wished to catch a death fish. LOL That escalated quickly. Got a ways to go before you can catch one of those, little guy. But we’ll lock it in and work on it.
Baby Boone is still here, still rather meh as sim babies often are.
Trying to finish off some skills.. tabcasting guitar while reading an alchemy book.
Hemlock’s turn to wish to bake something.
Xavier is doing nothing special, but I still think he’s handsome.
Loves for the little one.
I realized I hadn’t taken Primrose’s picture and went to find her.. she never came home. She had wanted to sign up for an afterschool activity. I had her choose scouts, and then she didn’t come home after that. Just sat here reading her logic book. LOL
Xavier is taking to the treadmill about as well as I do. Except a little better because, you know, he’s ON the treadmill.
Alisa: “So Hemlock, you’re going to have another new baby sibling!”
When Ash is done with his homework, I send Alisa out to chuck a Cure elixir at him.
Ash: “I sure am tired. I know what would really help ease me off to dreamland, mom..”
Yeah, he asked for a bedtime story. And I let him, because for cuteness sake this is adorable! Alisa read to him from a baiting technique book until he passed out.
And then she apparently decided during kid #26 is the time to start watching your figure, as she rolled a wish to learn athletic.
Later, after everyone heads to school, Alisa waddles out to the back deck and releases the great flood – er, goes into labor.
Oh hallelujah, thank the heavens above. Final needed Murdle is here!
Meet Persephone. She loves Lilac (lavendar? Whatever the light purple is called), and has two traits that we’ll learn next time when I fire up the game again.
Dexter & Eugenie are going first
Dexter rolls and adds Good Sense of Humor to his trait list, and decides to grow up into these awful overalls. He’s stuck in them in my game because of the rule I made for myself about leaving the bad apple clothes alone, but if you download him, feel free to get him out of these. LOL
And Eugenie rolls and adds Supernatural Skeptic to her trait list. I don’t think I’ve ever used that trait so we’ll see what it does. She’s sticking around a bit to finish off that Chess Master LTW. (Dexter’s LTW was to become a Superstar Athlete. We’re not keeping him long enough for that.)
Quiet little Xavier is up next.
“How you doin’?” LOL
He does turn out to be a looker… and still seems like he’s dad’s feature-shape with mom’s coloring. He rolls and gains the Eccentric trait. (A couple days in, he did roll the LTW Paranormal Profiteer. I locked it even though I won’t be able to do it for him, just because at least it’s something new.)
Ash, Hemlock, and Primrose are still here, still skilling, and still just slaying me with adorability.
Eugenie had invited Prairie over to trounce her in a chess match, then she cornered her to bitch about floofy unicorns. Guessing this is a Skeptic thing? Anyway, the mirror over the fireplace made this picture perfect because you can see Prairie’s “oh ffs” facial expression. *hehe*
Before moving Dexter out, Alisa made sure to get a family photo with kids 19-24 (well, countables 19-23, plus a bonus cutie.)
For Dexter (and eventually Eugenie), I made them a cute little white duplex.
Eugenie had to crush Luca, who did not make it easy on her. (I think he won twice before she finally beat him.)
Xavier was doing stuff on the computer. Games? Chatting? Writing? Signing up for extracurriculars? Who can remember? Not me.
And THIS is him “learning to drive.” Grrrr.. see the skill bar over his head? His queue still says “learn to drive.” However, you can see Alisa back at the far end of the bridge while Xavier’s just hoofing it to God knows where, and neither one are in a vehicle any more. I’m going to guess this is the reason half my kids get brought home by the psychic curfew police in the middle of their learn to drive interaction…because I don’t have time to babysit and watch them to make sure they’re actually IN the car the whole time. I was able to get Alisa to run after him and he didn’t go too far, then I had her re-ask if he wanted to drive. Lame. I’m counting it as the same trip in the van.
And Eugenie’s prom date Pablo was down the street at the lounge, all aged up. So she took a break from chessing to go reacquaint herself with this tall glass of handsome.
I checked on the babies and found a room full of cuteness.
I shoved Ash back on a pegbox though so he could keep skilling too. And around here I realize that even though Alisa changes clothes at 9 on work days, and her career meter says “on the clock”, no one has been showing up. I hypothesize that maybe the game doesn’t have people bring their toddlers because we HAVE three toddlers. But they age up tomorrow, so no big deal. I’ll try and get them to age as soon as we get the pop up at 7am that today’s the birthday, and maybe we’ll be able to have a daycare day.
And since Dexter’s gone, we’ll try and knock out the having of the next kid too. (Remember, 1 day = 1 year in my game, so pregnancy is about 24 hours.)
This poor houseguest. Eugenie invited her over, immediately kicked her butt in chess, and now all she wanted to do was go to the bathroom in peace but Shawn won’t leave her alone. Alisa’s in there because she’s nauseated and needs to hurl.. never mind that there are three other UNOCCUPIED bathrooms.
Ah, and now we see the pop. Whatcha think.. does she look like she’s carrying a girl or a boy? LOL
Correction: was the FINAL ranked chess opponent. You’re looking at a Grand Master, right here. Thug life. She is quickly moved out and into her duplex.. and just as quickly she marries and moves in with Pablo. Shortly after, Dexter moves in with…some other Murdle sibling, I think, and so the “twins’ duplex” didn’t even have them live in it together for 24 hours, and now has neither of them. LOL
All the world’s trio of cutest pixel babies are now reading.. 🙂
And now the world’s cutest trio of pixel babies is having a birthday!
Hemlock is up first.
He rolls for a trait and like Dexter a few days ago, he gets Good Sense of Humor.
Next is Primrose.
She didn’t get too far into painting before…it was baby time! I was pretty sure this meant the possibility for this being a daycare day was a wash, but that was okay because my final girl was on her way.
Just, ya know, not yet. ROFL Meet Boone, bonus boy #2. Like the triplets before him, he is also Hydrophobic, and he’s a Virtuoso. His favorite color is yellow, but I’m too lazy to do anything while he’s in screaming meatloaf stage. He’ll get his color when he hits toddler. 🙂
Multiplying Murdles 