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Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite/ there will be a show tonight on trampolines/
The Hendersons will all be there/Late of Pablo-Fanques is there/ What a scene
Have you seen it?/ It’s great, they got stuff!
…
I think perhaps Ringo here has been enjoying some time with Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, if you catch my drift. That was practically nonsensical!! There are no trampolines in sims!!
Ringo: I was just trying to tell them we’ve got a good show tonight.
Oh. Job well done, then!
When last we left the Beatle family, the house was being taken over by a GNOME ARMY!!!
Oh wait… no. That never happened. I was just playing with my camera hack features.
But really, when you think of it, what with those Mysterious Mr. Gnomes and all, I think it’s something we should be on the lookout for….
When last we left the ACTUAL story, I was baiting you with my crib predictions again.
Second time’s the charm, I hope.
DANG FRABBIT!!!
Well, putting aside my ineptitudes for fortune telling, we must welcome JoJo to the family!!! To the stats!!!
JoJo Tuscon Beatle
Virtuoso, Excitable
Favorites: Classical music, Cookies, and Spiceberry
Hmm. So far so good!
JoJo was a man who thought he was a loner/ But he knew it couldn’t last/
JoJo left his home in Tuscon, Arizona/ for some California grass
Jude: Darling, you know we need to have another child. The voice in the sky requires there to be a “spare” just in case JoJo is mysteriously offed.
Not the most romantic of propositions, Jude, but I guess whatever gets the deed done.
While Jude and Annie were doing magic tricks, Lucy decided to drop by for a brief visit. Apparently she was accosted by an anti-fashion mob while she was away, taking in the heinous purple dress she arrived in.
Oh and who is that you’ve brought with you, Lucy?
Lucy: Dude, Sammy followed me. You know what a creeper he is!
I meant the baby…. I knew Sammy was coming. Although the fact we actually PAY to have him here every day is still something of a mystery to me.
Lucy: This is Jasmine, my slightly elder daughter.
Oh yes. Lucy had twins! Courtesy of the fertility treatment I bought for her per Delbert’s instructions. Delbert finally exacted his revenge!
Anywho, Jasmine here is a Virtuoso Genius who apparently wishes that SHE was in the legacy what with rolling the family trait all on her own. Sorry sweetie, but no dice.
Her twin sister Felicia, however, is a Heavy Sleeping Loner. Winning combination right there. Truly.
So, moving along with family updates. Annie worked on her extremely annoying and time consuming fishing goal.
Annie: I like the big ones.
…
That’s what she said!!!!! (Oh you know you were thinking it.)
Sheldon, having already completed his lifetime goal, spent some quality time with his grandson JoJo.
Sheldon: Um…. what do I do with it? I forget.
JoJo: waaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
It appears he’s hungry Sheldon. Or he wants to choke you. I’m not entirely sure. (Look at those hands!!!)
Jude finally finished the, albeit wavy, portrait of Eleanor. POINT!
Portrait painting is a bit of a mystery to me, though. Because Jude paints one like this….
…while Eleanor turns out this much more satisfying version. Frankly, I think that’s the best I’ve seen Jude look! Are you sure you didn’t doctor the photo, Eleanor?
Eleanor: I might have done some slimming about the nose…. I’d like my genetics to be remembered in the most positive light possible….
Eh, works for me!
SheldonClone! mailman comes by every so often just to taunt me. *sigh*
And so it felt like it was but a few days before it was time for JoJo’s toddlerification.
Well actually it WAS only a few days. But no one really did anything interesting in that time span, so we’re skipping straight to birthdays.
What I want to know is how an infant has the upper body strength to do a sit up like that….
YOW-ZAH!!! That’s one good lookin’ baby!!! Well done Annie!
I should mention here that JoJo does in fact have Jude’s light light purple eyes. However I did end up downloading that colorful eyes hack I wanted, so it somewhat overrides lighter colors giving them a sort of bluish tone. But you can still see the purple if you look closely.
Eleanor was promoted to conductor and recieved this nifty penguin suit for her toils.
Actually, you are looking a little beaky there Eleanor….
Eleanor: GRRR.
She’s kind of irritable lately. Must be menopause.
THAR SHE BLOWS!!!!
Annie is pretty close to the big day. And I do mean big. WHOA. That better not be triplets in there.
Her ballooning girth didn’t stop her from teaching her son to speak. In her lingerie.
I’m not sure that’s appropriate, Annie.
Annie: It’s much more comfortable this way. It’s breezy. Like I’m one with nature.
JoJo: Nature!
I have a funny thing about finding out what each baby’s first word is. So expect lots of photos like this. Exhibitionist Annie here is almost always in her undies, and, as you will soon discover, has quite a few babies.
Speaking of which, here comes #2!!!
…
No. Not like that. Mind out of the toilets people!
Jude, for his part, was excited enough to run to the hospital.
Jude: *thinks* I wonder if when I am a chess champion they will put my face on a box of SimmieO’s….
Jude Beatle, master of off topic thinking.
As you can see here, Jude was more interested in eating pancakes than in greeting his new son Henry.
Henry Equus Beatle
Virtuoso, Grumpy
Favorites: Latin music, Cookies, and Aqua
Messrs.K and H assure the public their production will be second to none/ And of course Henry the horse dances the waltz!
…. What? I like horses.
Jude: So we just had a baby. You know what that means.
Annie: MAGIC SHOW.
Wait a minute! I did not authorize this… magic show!!! We have an heir and a spare. STOP! YOU MAGIC FIENDS!!!
Darned family oriented sims and their baby making wants.
Although these two do throw some beeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuutiful babies. JoJo could be a toddler model. For serious.
Like father like son.
It’s good to see these two spending some quality time together.
Jude, I think, has a secret family oriented trait. He prefers to cook with Sheldon or snuggle Henry over practicing his chess like I told him to.
Guess I can’t reprimand him for that though.
Awww.
Eleanor was finally promoted to the top of her career, achieving her lifetime wish and 2 points for me!! Yay Eleanor!
AND it was time for her wrinklification. Big day for her.
However, I should have realized that all news comes in threes.
Eleanor: I thought it was all BAD news comes in threes.
Yea… well…. this is just news in threes.
1. Promotion
2. Birthday and………
…Sheldon? Why are you all sparkly and floating in a golden light.
Sheldon: My magic powers have escaped my ability to restrain them?
…3. Sheldon died. In the middle of Eleanor’s birthday.
…
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Grim: Sheldon Murillo Beatle, your time has come. Your deeply ingrained magical abilities have finally worn away your physical body. Come with me to the land beyond. They are waiting for you to show them your magic.
Eleanor: Buh-but Sheldon only shows ME his magic tricks. Waaaaaaaaaah!!!
Grim: It is time. Oh, and happy birthday Eleanor!
Grim you have some timing. THIS does NOT a happy birthday make!
Don’t you just hate it when your cell phone goes off while your father is dying? It really ruins the mood.
Exhibitionist Annie, who of course is in her underoos, looks a bit appauled that Jude didn’t put it on silent. Me too, Annie, me too.
In Memorandum:
Sheldon Murillo Beatle
Sheldon was the most beautiful specimen of a founding spouse I have ever run across. He was deeply dedicated to his wife and sharing his “magic” with her and with the world and he was very skilled with his wand. He floated his way up to the top of the Spy career ladder. He is survived by his wife Eleanor and his two children, Lucy and Jude. Sheldon will be sorely missed by many.
May he rest in peace.
I seriously could have cried at this. I do believe I loved Sheldon more than any other sim I’ve had. He had the most magic.
Still, life must go on. And Eleanor here needs to have her birthday. I was still overcoming the shock of Sheldon’s passing, which is why the walls are down.
I was also a bit irritated that these two could muster up so much enthusiasm only 10 minutes after Sheldon died.
Geesh these sims move on FAST.
Eleanor: Ohhhhhhhhhhhh the weight of the world without my Sheldon is just too heavy!
Eleanor did her best to console her pain by spending more and more time with the kids.
Being that with the passing of Sheldon we also lost Sheldon’s income, I sent Jude down to the hospital to get a job. I’ve got a plan in the future involving the generation 3 heir, a high level doctor sim, the TV, the stereo, and a whole lot of apples or watermelons…
Yea, but that is much later.
Jude decided that the best way to console his pain was to enjoy some fine cuisine at Le Bistro.
Where he strangely ran into an entirely made over Don Lothario!
Why the change of look, Don?
Don: Well, now that I’m a new Dad I figured I’d better act the part.
New Dad you say?
Don: Yes! I had a daughter with my ex girlfriend named Nakisha. Unfortunately I don’t see her much. However, Buck and I adopted a little boy!
Say wha???
I did some investigating and it was, in fact, true!
Meet Brock Lothario, son of Don and Buck Lothario.
Cute little bugger!
And now back to our regularly scheduled Beatle programming.
JoJo was being a generally adorable and happy toddler. The best of toddlers: the first one. They get so much attention and accomplish so much without a massive mountain of toys and skilling items floating around.
Ahhh. Treasure the peace while you can.
Eleanor got her elder makeover.
You look pretty darn good for an old woman, Ele.
Eleanor: Sunscreen and avacado masks.
Hmmm. I’ll remember that.
Annie had some weird cravings like “eat autumn salad in the park”. I don’t know why it had to be in the park. But I must admit it is scenic.
However, I was very annoyed to find that this did NOT fulfill her wish to eat autumn salad in the park because APPARENTLY she had to bring multiple servings of it. PFFFFFFFFFFFT. Fussy pregnant sims and their picky wishes!
Jude finally started working on defeating ranked chess players by tackling this man: one Oscar Alphender. Jude beat him pretty easily.
And he celebrated with a bowl of SimmieO’s while Annie dined on cake.
I really do treat my pregnant sims very well. No work or nothin’!
Annie: I’m not sure it’s an entirely fair trade when you consider the pain of giving biiiiiiiiiiiiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Why you little punk! She stole the police cruiser to go to the hospital!
Annie: This way I can get there as FAST as possible!
Annie happened to be leaving right in the midst of Henry’s birthday.
She came out of the hospital with…. a basket….? Why do you need a basket…?
Uh oh.
OH.
NOES!
TWINS!!!
At home, sparkles flew.
Awww! Isn’t she the cutest widdle girlie you’ve ever……… hold up. That’s Henry. Henry is a BOY.
Hmm. It would appear Henry is a supporter of team Rainbow from birth.
Okay, I don’t have a shot of the twins together yet, but they are both girls. Stats:
Prudence Day Beatle
Virtuoso, Hates the Outdoors
Favorites: Classical, Hamburgers, and Hot Pink
Dear Prudence/ Won’t you come out to play/
Dear Prudence/ Greet the brand new day
Sadie Sequsie (prounounced SECKS-EE) Beatle
Virtuoso, Genius
Favorites: Pop Music, Stu Surprise, Turquoise
Sexy Sadie how did you know/ The world was waiting just for you
Henry ended up getting a makeover just because that bob looked really rather odd on him. Although it’s interesting to note that ADDITIONALLY (besides the hair and the shirt) his diaper has pink dragons on it.
Yup. Definitely Team Rainbow.
Proof there are baby girls.
This is…. oh heck, I don’t know. I can’t tell until they’re toddlers and even then I refer to them mentally as “the pink one” and “the blue one”.
Jude’s second chess conquest is Meadow Thayer Carpenter-Rhodes.
Yikes!!! She didn’t age well…..
Jude: It was like playing my infant daugher. Easy peasy.
Smug much, Jude?
Henry: Tired!
Henry, on the other hand, apparently has MIND READING ABILITIES!!!! The Sheldon magic lives on!
SERIOUSLY PEOPLE. IT’S LIVED ON ENOUGH. THERE ARE ALREADY FOUR KIDS. CAN’T YOU STOP????!
They’re like rabbits. Or catholics.
*No offense to Catholics. I have a lot of good Catholic friends!
Eleanor: And then the Grim Reaper ruined my birthday by taking my dear, dear Sheldon from me.
Henry: Gwim Weeper!
That’s a bit of a dark subject for a toddler, Eleanor. But then you have a history of that….
JoJo spends a lot of time with his bear, Kathrine these days. Mostly because he’s already got his major skills down and now there are two infants and another toddler in the house, so there isn’t much time for anyone to pay him any attention.
Kathrine: It’s okay. I shall stand guard over his happiness.
Good to know he’s in good hands… er… paws.
Chess round 3: Cherry Kanto.
She has such a unique fashion sense. I think she might take her name too literally.
This is your just desserts for that last woo hoo, miss exhibitionist Annie.
Seriously. 90% of the time she’s in either her lingerie or her swimsuit. If there was a nudist trait I am CONVINCED she’d have it.
She even attended JoJo’s birthday in her swimsuit.
Apparently it was a pool party, because Jude wore his too.
Yum.
JoJo grew up and inherited… Sheldon’s cloak of invisibility?
Oh. Nope. But he did get some pea-green pajamas. To the dresser!!!!
JoJo: I like these pajamas because they have my favorite color, spiceberry, while at the same time remaining at least somewhat butch what with the skulls and all.
Kathrine: Just as long as you don’t become emo and start sewing weird patches on me and covering me with sharpie.
Really. Emo kids do weird things with sharpies. At least when I was in high school they did.
Jude was finally defeated in one of his chess conquests.
I think Vadim Simovitch tricked him by mesmerizing him with his ability to almost swallow his own upper lip.
Exhibitionist Annie ran about training the children and then putting them in the wrong cribs. That is NOT Henry’s crib missy.
Annie: I stopped to admire my beautiful tummy. Ahhhh! I love children.
Okay, I admit. I changed her LTW to Surrounded by Family. We were already on our way to 5 kids. So I figure we’ll get it over and done with. Mostly because I don’t think I can handle doing this again.
Is it Sadie? Is it Prudence?
I have no idea.
Let’s just count this picture and the one before it for both of the twins. Because really, it looked EXACTLY the same.
Pre-makeover.
Prudence in pink. That’s how you remember. I have to tell myself that over and over. These two look SO much alike.
Particularly from behind. Seriously, how would I remember which was which?
“Prudence in pink” is my motto. And it makes my life a LOT easier.
There is one tiiiiiiiiny difference. Sadie has Annie’s gold eyes.
And Prudence has Jude’s purple ones.
Otherwise they’re completely identical. COM-PLETE-LY!
First word log:
The pink one: LOVE!
Lucky, lucky Jude. This one’s going to be a heartbreaker when she hits her teens, I’ll bet.
Little genius Sadie on the other hand, is a bit more progressive.
The blue one: Eighth note!
I am always on the watch for potential future spouses. I like this girls green eyes. But I think she will end up being too old for most of the Beatle kids. And with Annie and Sheldon both being an entire generation older than their respective spouses, I think for gen 3 I want someone the same age. That way I don’t have lonely elders roaming about.
So that eliminates you, handsome albeit generic looking man maid.
Man Maid: Darn.
Sammy Felix, it would seem, is finally done haunting us. Golly, I hope he didn’t die or something!!
… Okay fine. Whatever gets him and his creepy bug eyes out of my house works for me. Death, plague, whatever! The bug eyes…. they haunted me.
Jude was practicing so that he could take on Vadim again with new confidence.
But I also think he was delaying the match until he got a promotion because he didn’t want to be seen in his pink scrubs.
Eleanor was still feeling the loss of Sheldon. She would wander off to their former rendezvous place to play woebegotten guitar tunes. *sniff* It’s just all so SAD.
This is either:
1. Banned for life!!!!!
or
2. Annie giving birth to the 5th frim frabbing kid.
Considering Jude is freaking out GAP-style, I guess it must be the second.
Welcome to the family, Michelle!!!
Michelle Belle Beatle
Virtuoso, Absent-Minded (Headaches here we come)
Favorites: Pop, Pancakes, and Aqua
What’s with all the kids and aqua?? Jeez.
Michelle, my belle/ These are words that go together well/ My Michelle.
Michelle, my belle/ Sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble/ Très bien ensemble.
Sheldon was so excited about the french lyrics that he made his first appearance that night!!!
… Or perchance it was coincidence.
However THAT is where I shall leave you.
Next time:
-FIVE frim frabbing kidlets growing up
-The quest for the perfect spouse
-The sub-plot that I promised you for this chapter involving the beloved individual that I didn’t get a chance to fit in because this is already so long!
-and as usual, MORE Beatles goodness!!!!
Ringo: I hope I look as good as Eleanor does when I’m all old and gray.
Sorry to tell you Ringo, but I’ve seen the future and it doesn’t pan out well for you. Nevertheless:
Both: We hope you have enjoyed the show!
Thanks for coming!! See you next time!
