Chapter 10 - Gen 8 - Paige

"Why didn't you phone me - I should have been there!!"

"I managed fine on my own and I know you wanted to be there when the baby came, but you were in the middle of a game would you really have left it half way through??"

"Yes - No - Oh - probably yes - I don't know because I was not given that option was I!!"

"Well its done now, you got two of your wishes today I see - Mr Superstar Athlete your son is in his cot"

"A boy?!"

"Yes a boy!!"

I was a little upset that I had been at work when the baby came

but I was over the moon that I had had the boy I wanted

and today I also achieved my life time wish of becoming a Superstar Athlete.

 We called the baby Rio and he is Athletic and Virtuoso

 Our first night with Rio was pretty exhausting he cried all through the night 

and we were in and out of bed like yo-yo's. 

I remembered the old teddy bear that I used to have when I was a baby

 the one I had inherited along with the books.

"Paige what's with the old teddy, wouldn't it be better to get him a new one"

"Do you know how old that teddy is??"

"Well it looks too old!!"

"That teddy has been passed down every generation since the Riverview 2nd generation"

"So what generation are we on now?"

"I am the 8th generation - Rio is the 9th generation"

"Wow - he is old - about 700 years old!!"

"Roughly about that!!  Do  you know what makes me laugh - apparently his name is Lee and I have his original clothes still, somewhere down the line someone redressed him and kept his old clothes"

"Is there a mental gene that runs in your family?"

"You've read the books - you tell me!!"

"What is that thing you have hung up over Rio's cot"

"Its a mobile - its supposed to keep him occupied - gives him something to look at"

"Well I don't like it - it looks like a piece of art to me!"

"Don't be stupid" she laughed

"I really don't like it  Raza - it is making me feel uncomfortable!!"

"Ok - ok - I'll take it down - your such a baby!!"

After the first night Rio was pretty good during the night and we got plenty of sleep.

But my 4am waking up actually found a purpose because when I sprung out of bed at 4am instead of going back to sleep straight away I got Rio out of his cot, played with him a little changed his diaper and gave him a bottle and this kept him quite happy and he rarely cried during the night.  Razz was getting to sleep straight through the night without being disturbed.

It was not long before Rio's birthday came around

he has my eyes and Razz's hair colouring

PurplePaige : You working again?

Razzle66 : Yes, why?

PurplePaige : Rio is asleep

Razzle66 : and?

PurplePaige : can we try for another baby?

Razzle66 :  your mad!!

PurplePaige : is that yes or no?

Razzle66 : come next door and you'll find out!!

PurplePaige : you in your old room

Razzle66 : yes

PurplePaige : ok

I did not want Rio to be an only child but I was not intending on filling the house up with children, two maybe three was all I wanted.  I know Razz being the workaholic that she is would not enjoy having too much time off work to be on maternity leave so I knew we wouldn't be having too many children anyway.

 We quite often played catch out in the back garden, but tonight was quite comical because Razz was just wearing her underwear and again the Paparazzi managed to get photo's of her, because they had sneaked into the back garden without us even realizing until it was too late.

 Rio seems to be quite a bright toddler, he has learnt his skills pretty quickly. 

Being the only child he is getting both or our attention

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"Mommie sick me play with new baby" Rio said

"Razz!!"

"What?"

"Rio says hes going to play with the new baby is there something you haven't told me yet?"

"Rio is a grass" she smiled and tickled Rio "I told him it was a secret" she laughed

"No tell Daddie" Rio smiled

"I was not going to tell you until I was sure, but I keep being sick again!"

"That is wicked - but how come the little man knew" 

"You know how inquisitive he is I ran to the bathroom to throw up and I got 101 questions from him"

"Remind me never to tell Rio any secrets" we both started laughing

I have had my final promotion at work, I am now a Sports Legend, I have reached the top of my career ladder and there is nowhere else for me to go with it.   This has made Razz a little stir crazy, being a workaholc, looking at another stretch of maternity leave a head of her, she hates missing work and badly wants to achieve her life time wish of becoming a Superstar Athlete.

Rio is now walking and talking.

"Are you still being sick?"

"Yes I am, I feel awful"

"So is it definite, do we have another baby on the way?"

"I would say so - but I will know for definite tomorrow"

"After this baby there are not going to be any more babies until after I have achieved my Life time Wish I hope you know!!"

"If we have a girl this time I am not really that fussed if we actually have anymore"

"So you would be happy with just two"

"Yeah I think so!!"

"Quick go and look at what Rio is doing"

"Where is he?" I asked

"In the livingroom - he's using his potty chair all on his own!!"

"You didn't put him on there?"

"No he's just done it all on his own!!"

"Well its definite, I am pregnant!!"

"That's great!!

"So its a girl you want this time I take it"

"Yes a girl would be good"

"Well lets hope you get what you wish for again cause I would really like a girl too!!"

Busy kissing Razz I heard the tv come on and the channels jump
from one to the other and land on the sports channel.

"What The ............?"

"What is the matter?"

"The TV?"  I said all confused
Razz started laughing and pointed across the room

"Its Rio"

I could see he was glued to the tv watching a sports game

"How ....?"

"It did not take him long to figure out the tv controls, he's always glued to the sports channel in the daytime - I put the cartoon channel on for him but he changes it he would rather watch the sports - I think we have another little budding athlete there!!"

"Anything interesting in that paper?"

"No not really, just the normal, you know families moving out of town, public scandals"

"I don't know why we bother to have it delivered"

I read something in the sports section that made me feel sick!!

"O-M-G!!!!!!"

"What's the matter?"

"Oh nothing it doesnt matter!!"

"You don't suddenly say OMG like that over nothing!!!  Tell me!!"

"You might not like it" I said

"I don't care - I want to know!!"

"OK - next month we are playing the Riverview Llama's"

"Isn't that the team you used to play for - I thought you would have liked that, didn't you tell me most of your old team mates were family, its a chance for you to catch up with some of them!!"

"Yes but ......"

"But ??????"

"Shantel"

"Who is Shantel?"

"She was one of my team mates in Riverview, she was married to my Mom's Uncle"

"And??"

"Do you remember when you asked me if I had left any broken hearts in Riverview?"

"Yes and you said maybe one"

"Yes well that was Shantel"

Now I had some explaining to do!!


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Chapter 11

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I have never had a sim with the Don't like Art trait before and I found it quite comical sometimes, especially when Paige took a disliking to the mobile hanging over the baby cot!!!  Any time he got near the cot he had the dont like art icon in his thoughts and he constantly stared at the mobile.