#xiao gen1

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Emerson excels at parenting, by the way, and seems to adore every second of it. Morgan does not excel at makeup-doing, though.

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I didn't mean to do a baby cliffhanger, but babies are just so uninteresting that I literally didn't take any pictures until post-toddler-ification. Morgan is happy to have a new sibling! But he is not happy to get a hug from mommy :( I have a ton of mods to maximize autonomy and make sims as individual as possible, and Sara is a shining example of those working because I have never had a sim who seems so strangely ambivalent about being a parent! She doesn't (and didn't) have a fear of pregnancy or anything, she just... doesn't click very well with the tots? And she doesn't actually try very often, so when she does it is often rejected. On the contrary, I'm not sure I've ever had a sim so immediately enamored of parenting as Emerson, who seems to adore every second of it and wants to spend all his time with the kids. I feel a little bad for Sara, but am fascinated by the dichotomy.

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I can't help it and I'm not even sorry, I just love this little booger. LOOK at him! He is pretending he is a kitty cat! Loki looks so sad to not have a toddler clapping in his face, but don't worry Loki he loves you, too.

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Meet Morgan!!! He is fussy and absolutely precious. Emerson looks like he might faint. He loves fatherhood, but much like myself is thinking, "YOU JUST GAVE BIRTH!" There's no time to dwell on that though, because Sara has to go to an impromptu expecting mom's club in the city center in the dead of winter. But hey, look! Marisol is pregnant too!

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SHE'S HERE. Welcome to the land of mobility, Frances Xiao! She rolled charmer, which is very fitting (whereas fussy doesn't actually suit Morgan that well). Emerson is writing and hanging out with the babies. And he got a haircut! And peep his sick ass collectibles that I finally put up! Technically it's just the landing, but it serves as Em's office space so he can work and still be with the kiddos :))

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Birthday date birthday date birthday date! Sara just gave birth so they had a nice little at-home date and Emerson made some ~gourmet pasta~ which Sara absolutely inhaled because she is a glutton (very annoying trait when you want to make food for the household in advance, let me tell you). It was cute and slightly awkward because they are still a kind of mismatched couple.

Welcome to Adulthood, babies! Also, how good does Emerson look?

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Sara has the nurturing trait, but is surprisingly not-very-nurturing in practice. And also not particularly inclined towards motherhood.

Oh, and yes. Yes, these pictures are in the correct order, she immediately got pregnant again. You just gave birth Sara!!! Classic family sim behavior though- want a million babies, be weirdly indifferent to said babies, ignore them to go do a sexy growl at your best friend.

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I just think that top pic feels so cozy. Sara was teaching Loki to sit when she went into labor! She seems mildly uncomfortable, but mostly pretty chill. Emerson is losing it, but Sara is just like "hold on, I have to finish teaching him sit"

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The baby room is too small to take good pics in, apologies.

Sara moved in! And the house got some kid-friendly additions :)

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Sara and Marisol invited Emerson over to meet their new dog, Hazley. Hazley sucks and gained a festering grudge against Emerson for introducing himself. Fuck you too, Hazley. Jerk (genuinely, I don't think anyone had a positive interaction with him. Is he really a dog, even? CAUSE HE SEEMS LIKE A JERK. Ahem).

I think there was maybe a more important being Sara wanted to introduce Emerson to, in the form of XIAO BABY NUMBER ONE!!! Looks like Emerson's getting a couple new roommates!

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Welcome wagon! They didn't really click too well, so it was sort of awkward. Ironically, Emerson is actually friendly with Savannah, but she slept through the whole visit!

Then he went to the gym, publicly confessed his love for Sara, which she did not appreciate, and met Sara's best friend/roommate Marisol! I definitely wasn't kind of hoping they might get on well since he and Sara seem a little mismatched. Also, Savannah is asleep again but here now. I love her.

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As someone who lives with 6 cats, this looks like a fucking nightmare to me. Then again, with nearly 10 million dollars I guess you could just buy the cats their own house and maybe just... treat them as neighbors (can you tell 6 cats is too many cats for my household)? I think there is also a household that is just cats, and at some point I found a household that was a bunch of cats, dogs, and a single child.

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Emerson went out for night on the town because free food, baybee! I spotted Marcus Flex and remembered he and Paolo had several kids already. I think he was having twins here? He is doing some kind of Nick Cannon/Elon Musk challenge in my save because he will go on to father many more children after this.

Marcus, please stop. You are vastly skewing the gene pool to all be related to you.

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Em hosted Harvestfest :) I think Sara was there? She has a way of not showing up in pictures though. This might be the last holiday I had in game for awhile (not actually certain), because I just... can't be bothered, lol.

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You may have noticed that house seemed pretty big for someone who has, like, 3-5k to his name, but uh... I'm pretty sure I'm a masochist. So we took out a 50k loan to buy it! Let's go, capitalism baybee! Say goodbye to Emerson's tiny lil Strangerville shack, cause we are movin' on up to San Myshuno, where Peebs learns to levitate!