#had to lean in heavy into the toxic masculinity to remind u these sims are horrible people 🥰

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(Valentina's POV)(Summary: Valentina is the 2nd oldest of Claire and Ryan's 10 children. She's married to Eric Townsend and they have 4 children, and she's currently pregnant)

This pregnancy has been flying by! I'm now in my second trimester, at the end of my first trimester we had a heartbeat scan and were told by the nurse that I'm pregnant with twins! When they did the first scan the position of the babies meant that they only caught one heartbeat, so it was a pleasant surprise when they did that second scan and found 2. This being my second twin pregnancy back to back means that I've already experienced the usual growing pains that come with being pregnant with twins. I always wonder whether they'll be identical or not, my mother had 2 pairs of twins and both sets were identical. Abbott and Asher are identical, so I wonder if these two will also be identical or fraternal, I also wonder what the gender combination will be. I'd love to have girls for Aria to have younger sisters, two girls would take us to 3 girls and 3 boys which would also be great purely for the satisfaction of having even numbers of both. Whatever these babies are, as long as they're happy and healthy, I shall be grateful.

As the twins get older, I've been working to incorporate more school into their day so that they can start their school day with Aria and Ansel as they get older. Whilst the older two kids are doing their focused reading time or doing work that they don't need help with, I focus on reading to the toddlers to get them where I need them to be before the toddlers come and things get a bit more chaotic.

We've recently got chickens and everyone is delighted! Before we got the chickens we had the kids study chickens in their science classes, and both Ansel and Aria helped build the chicken coop with Eric. Having the chickens will give us fresh eggs, right now we have two hens, one rooster, and a chick. We're hoping that to get hatchable eggs so we can increase the number of chickens without having to buy them. It'll also be a great opportunity to teach the kids science as to how animals reproduce and the different kinds of reproduction in animals. They will also teach the children responsibility, Aria and Ansel take turns waking up early and collecting eggs from the coop before they start their morning chores and breakfast. Eric is responsible for cleaning the coop due to the amount of effort it takes, and as the children grow older they can have more of an active part in chicken care.

It's great to be able to go out and bond with the chickens, sometimes I'll go in and find some eggs that the kids might have missed. Other times I head out and bond with the animals, I recently read a book that said that the quality of eggs will increase as you bond with your chickens. The hens are a lot friendlier than the rooster, but we're hoping he'll come round. We haven't named them yet, but that's something we're assigning the children as a project to name the chickens we currently have.

Madelynn is the furthest in her pregnancy out of her, Sabrina, and me. Recently she had a baby shower, she and Carter chose to find out that they were having earlier on in her pregnancy. So when they found out they were having a girl, the ladies at their church hosted a baby shower for her as due to her first two children being boys, she had no girls clothes. My mother as well as Madelynn's mother were able to attend the baby shower which is such a blessing for her, this baby is my parent's 10th grandchild, and the 4th girl to be born into the family.

She and Carter are so excited to have a baby girl, someone joked that Carter should start preparing his shotgun now for when the boys start to come calling for her a few years down the line. Madelynn is excited to have a little girl to dress up in frilly dresses and all the hairbows and hair ties that come with having a little girl. The boys are also excited to have a little sister, Lester has promised that he'll be her protector forever, which just melts my heart with how cute it is. Since the Crawford's are still in town, Sabrina and I are having our baby showers as a joint party in a few weeks. It's so exciting being pregnant at the same time!