We're still at the gift-giving party, though most people have gone home, and Avery is having a chat with his uncle Jasper, notorious cad. I like to think it's going like the conversation in Little Miss Sunshine. "Fuck a lot of women, kid. Not just one woman - a lot of women. Trust me, I have no reason to lie to you." Though, perhaps a little more child friendly.
Also, somewhat adorably, Avery immediately got wishes to buy a logic book, telescope, and a chemistry table after this conversation, presumably because Uncle Jasper is a scientist.
Meanwhile, Silas and Haven are slow-dancing while Rosemary plays the guitar in front of a portrait of her father as a teenager. Haven still has the flowers she would have carried if they'd had a proper wedding rather than eloping, because I haven't yet edited her formal wear.
Jasper plays chess while Rosie plays guitar and Haven paints. Meanwhile, Libby is on a date with her ex-husband (and will later end the evening by flirting with another random person twice her age). A perfect summary of Jake's children.
After school the next day - which Avery has barely attended because of frequent snow days - Avery runs into his uncle Jasper at the library and gets him to help with his homework. Jasper is a bit of a womanising dick, but Avery will be a heartbreaker too, so it kind-of works, having him as a role model. Plus, having an interest in science from his uncle makes sense as a prompt for him to take the astronaut route when he joins the military later. Of course, Avery has another prompt, in the form of the alien who comes to check out our house almost every other night. In fairness, it is the coolest house I've ever built. It's loosely-based on this tutorial.
The next night, while making mac and cheese at 3am, Haven realised she was pregnant again! Both Silas and Haven hoped for a boy this time.
I also went and got Serena's gravestone out of the vault thing, though I've not yet landscaped around it. That's not Yuriko's real tombstone, because the game purged it, but it will do. Haven is sad that her mother will never see her third grandchildren (remember, Skye was first, then Avery, and Rosieroo and Jasper don't have any kids yet).
In other news, Avery had a playdate with a neighbourhood kid! I think it came with the Generations pack - sometimes, a random parent just calls and offers to bring their kid over to play. Silas was finishing up his 9th novel, Alien College, soon to be followed by Alien Marriage, and possibly by Alien Divorce, though the book he wrote right after that was actually a non-fiction guide to writing. He's using the scribbling pad, a bit of custom content that lets sims write books - and police reports - longhand, rather than having to use a computer. They do own a computer now, I just like to do this old school.
As of now, Avery is on the Honour Roll and has just attended a scouting ceremony, and his baby brother, Logan, has been born. I chose Logan's traits randomly - he's athletic and loves the heat, so maybe he'll become a pro-athlete like August and Leo did. Speaking of August - who is also now dead - and Leo, Haven should go visit her uncle Leo. He inspired her interest in painting after all, even though he never followed it professionally. Both Avery and Logan are on the verge of aging up, which is handy because a teenage-Avery can help with toddler-training, just like Jake did with his younger siblings.
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