We left off with Sarah at the beginning of her pregnancy, the girls enjoying their summer break and William working on his career. To further his career William invited over local Law Enforcement Officer Ben Johnson and his wife Kate (ironically not pictured here but she is the local photographer you'll see later) for dinner.
The girls really just worked on their skills. Charlotte and Sarah did some painting and Jessica worked on her piano (The Atwoods are the wealthiest family on the Island and I figure they would want their girls to be a bit of over achiever proper ladies)
Soon enough it was time. William and Jessica had a good freak out.
Then the Doctor was called, and also the repair man to fix the dishwasher, while we have a baby in the kitchen because sims.
Welcome to the family Alexander Atwood! (Not sure if I'll stick with the A-Z naming for rotations but Alexander just seemed to fit).
I think William was after all quite glad to have a son and despite his early reservations was super attentive to the new baby.
Time to end their round by posing for a nice picture with Kate Johnson.
We left off with Sarah and William in a big fight that their daughter Jessica heard and was having bad dreams about her parents breaking up :(
But they made up and life went on in the lovely little Hylewood
Jessica was still worried about her parents and she rolled the want to be best friends with William. I think she's a little Daddy's girl and was worried about him, so they spent his day off talking and playing together. Meanwhile Charlotte was baking on her kids oven to keep her bake sale table stocked.
But Charlotte talked her mom into taking her to the library as she wanted to do some reading. (Probably to read the baker's report and get some new cookie recipes. Her muffins weren't selling too well)
Charlotte is my little bookworm so she rolled the want then to read 12 books! (I love the little kids section that @katyfernlily built!). While Charlotte read Sarah focused on making some new friends with the Baker Annie (who has since gotten a make over) and in the back is Annie's husband Tenya (the town doctor) reading as well. I hope he's reading up on delivering babies.
We left off with Sarah and William giving each other some back rubs...well we all know what back rubs lead to...
Yup, risky woohoo....in the guest bedroom (Why do sims do this? Why walk all the way upstairs to the undecorated guest room intead of doing it in your own bed that is *right* there?)
Welp, next day guess who is morning sick? Yup, Sarah. She's pretty pleased as she always wanted more children, but not sure how William will take it.
Sarah was excited to share the happy news but William was not as excited as she thought he would be. In fact, he was down right mad. He is clearly worried this isn't a good time and that he needs to focus on his career.
What they didn't know was that Jessica was listening at the top of the stairs and fell asleep worried about her parents relationship.
While William focuses on his political career at City Hall, the girls are enjoying summer break. Thanks to @misspats3 better playdates mod the neighbor Amy Miller called and asked if her son Devon could come play with the girls. Amy is naturally shy so she and Sarah didn't gain much friendship, but Devon and Jessica hit it off.
Charlotte on the other hand has the loner trait so she preferred to swing on the swings, read, and run her bake sale (maybe a future baker or entrepreneur?)
Pretty soon Jessica was wanting to become best friends with Devon and I just love these two.
Sarah is the school teacher so she decided to study some skills online to prep for fall. And next thing ya know I see William is home and these two are autonomously giving each other back rubs. They are so in love.