~The Ninth Season~ ~Cooke~

By: Pony(formerly CanImarryapony)

Welcome back to Arbor Watch and the Cookes. This chapter has nothing to do with the guy

above. I just thought he looked really interesting. I can’t even tell what eye color he

has.

Last rotation Maria, Sandra, and Jeremiah were born. Bringing the number of kids in the house to seven. Lucky the four older kids are more than willing to help out. Of Maria was sleeping in Jay and Thomas’ room. So if they

don’t help they don’t get any sleep.

Meanwhile, Julian sprays the roaches that wants to join the household. It’s a bit crazy with 9 sims and

four dogs. I forget to make them clean up after themselves sometimes.

Julien like Amber and Komei is up the moment his energy bar is full. He starts baking for More Than

Food right away.

I had to wake Julian up to help out with Jeremiah. He was screaming while Sandy was trying to get some

sleep.

After everyone else is up it’s time to get rid of the piles of homework around the door. All of the school

goers had at least two piled up.

I try to send Julien with the three teens to More Than Food. It’s one of the bad lots that

keeps crashing. I can’t figure out what’s wrong with it. Girf.

I suppose it doesn’t matter because it’s finally Thomas’ birthday. I swore I had a cake shot. I

guess not oh well. Thomas rolled fortune with a LTW to have 5 level 10 businesses. Well you are

in the right challenge for that laddybuck.

Off to the mirror so you don’t look completely like Julian.

The Cookes did have a little money saved up, so here’s J&J Bakery because they need some source of income.

It’s a pretty good turn out for being open at ten o’clock at night. The kids took turns selling and

running the cash register. While Julien just kind of goofed off. But he owns the place. They didn’t quite get it rank 1. I think they’re only one star away or so.

Jay and Julian sit down and snack on some leftovers while everyone else goes to bed.

Teenage boys, they’re always hungry.

Day Two begins with a fight. Julian take exception to Thomas’ name not starting with a J and attacks.

Julian won, the jerkface.

Fortunately the school bus came before anything else could happen. Julien settled down the triplets. They

had a long night of entertaining themselves.

Then he took the rare moment to send some cuddle time with Sandy.

Which may have lasted most of the afternoon. Despite being almost permy

pregnant Sandy still very much loves Julien.

Julian and the others are home finally, and he’s really pumped up about the fight with his brother. He

doesn’t realized he’s going to spend the rest of the rotation interacting with Thomas because I will not

have fights. *Brings out Mom voice*

Of course Sandy goes into labor right as the kids come home.

Triplets :D. You can’t say you’re surprised, it’s all part of The

Plan. Though somehow Jebediah didn’t get a picture. Wow, I’m really slacking this

chapter. Anyhow, Clockwise the top two are Jason and James.

Not pictured is Jebediah, because we need more J names.

Julien serves dinner and the family goes back to normal as if Sandy hadn’t just given birth. Never mind that there’s cribs shoved in every spot they would fit because there’s six sims that need them. Of Sandy’s

probably just glad she doesn’t have to have anymore kids. Ten is enough.

At some point in time a genie was left on the lot. Yay. Amanda wishes for wealth. One because she’s in the red aspiration wise and want to earn some

money and two they’re broke after buying another business. And if I want them to move again they’ll

need the funds.

The older boys get to test their parenting skill since all three of the babies seemed to start

crying at the same time.

Amanda wishes for Wealth once more. Leaving the last wish for Sandy when she wakes up.

Julien is up early as usual, can’t a guy sleep in once in awhile? Fortunately the kids are all asleep so he

sneaks in some time to bake.

As soon as the sun rises the boys take their turn in earning some money to move with. Not that they had

much luck.

The kids get booted to school and Sandy finally gets her turn with the genie. I have her wish for Peace of Mind.

I made her have ten kids so I can finally give her a break.

The kids come home from school, with vacation townies in tow. I can wait until Ethan’s kids grow up so I won’t have to deal with the vacationers for a awhile.

Juan Harries aside, tonight’s the mother of all birthdays, both set of triplets are aging up tonight. I have the teens get their homework out of the way so

they can help out.

The were a few hours to pass before the birthday’s began so

Julien took the older kids to More Than Food. The Café part is closed for the moment until the shop gets back on its feet.

I’m taking away the open position in the Culinary field until

More Than Food hits rank 5 again.

Back home it’s time to get the birthdays started. Bear with me a few slides, six birthdays is a lot.

First up is Sandra, she looks mostly like Julien, like all her elder siblings.

Next is Jason. Wow he’s cute, I love his little nose. His personality is 7/6/3/7/4.

Here’s Maria who got a little of the questionable side of her parents’ genetics.

Next up James (brown) and Jebediah (green) the both seem to have a good mix of genes, though I

think James has a wider mouth. Or I might be biased to Jebediah. 9/6/5/4/4 and 6/8/5/2/10 respectively.

Ten nice points for Jeb, sweet.

Last but not least, oh what’s his name, Jeremiah. Too many kids I tell you.

The clock ticks over to Day Four and poor Sandy is the only one left to clean up the mess.

Julian Cooke!!!!! The kids awakening is heralded by another fight. Grrr, Julian is starting to get on my

nerves.

Now you two stay there until the furious meter goes away, Thomas stop cheating!

Thankfully the rest of the day is pretty quiet. Julien and stay worked on toddler skills and the kids played. Saturdays are the best are they

not?

Day Five is RENO DAY!!!!! Everyone is pushed to the edge of the lot. Julian starts another fight with Thomas. Julian if

you don’t cut it out I’m making Thomas heir. :P.

Here’s the before picture. I hate this house, I was going to move the family again, but I decide to at least try and fix it up for the next family. The layout just isn’t functional for a large family, as you can see I’ve shoved cribs and beds anywhere possible. I split the second bathroom so one person could

shower and another could pee.

Here’s the new first floor. The only structural change I made was making the master bedroom bigger. Then I

redid the second kid’s bedroom and the second bathroom. I gutted and redid the living area. I like the

layout much better now.

And here’s the second floor, I was sure what to with the space above the kitchen, but I think the couch worked out

well. I wanted things the kids could all together to avoid more fights. There’s a third bathroom with a balcony

beside it in case I get someone that stargazes. There’s no access to the front balcony, I just liked the way it look

better than a roof.

Over all it looks much nicer now doesn’t it? I think the Cooke’s will stay here after

all. Now I just need to work on some landscaping.

And the best feature of all is the second stove, now both Sandy and Julien and later Julian can all work at

the same time.

Of course Julian is going to have to work on his relationship with Thomas before

he’s allowed in the kitchen.

The only thing I wish I had thought to add would be a dining room so the whole family can eat together. Right now they dine in shifts, but Amanda gets to move at the end of Summer. She now has a Plan for her very own. Of

course she’s just the first wave, slowly the family will shrink to a more manageable size.

Quietly right before bed Sandy ages gracefully into elderhood. That’s all for the Cooke family this

rotation. Onward to the Lillard’s (Bertino).

Rotation: Spring 3 Households: 2 of 5 Playable Sims: 27 # Of Total Residents(PS + Gravestones): 27 Community Lots: 9 Business Districts: 0 Universities: 0 Downtown: No SM: 3 Population: 81

CAS Available: 5 University Funds: $9440(+3000) # of Fires: 8 # of Burglaries: 0 # of Electrocutions: 0 # of Graves: 0

Businesses: Amber's Tales - Amber Vega - 10 More than Food - Julien Cooke – 2 Komei's Klothes – Komei Vega – 3 Smithe's Underground – Ethan Smithe – 2 The Toy Chest- Ethan Smithe- 2 Bertino’s Bolts- Dagmar Bertino – 2 Goodie Blooms – Herbert Goodie – 1 Vega Tykes – Juan Vega- 1 J&J Bakery – Julien Cooke - 0

Careers: Business – 1/1 Law Enforcement 2/2 Slacker 0/1 Entertainment 1/1 Architecture 1/1