Nothing exciting like twins to report this time, but my Legacy Challenge family is progressing nicely. The twins are both very playful and outgoing, which has made them quite fun to raise (once they got past the diaper stage, that is). About the time that Bree and Kiara grew into children, I had Abjiheet move out — I no longer needed him to help the family, and four people in a house is a more comfortable number for me, at least for this challenge.

In the picture above Kiara (left) and Bree (right) chat on the couch while their parents Nia and Sheldon do some huggy-huggy. I purchased the piano you see in the picture because I planned on inviting the headmaster over and getting the twins into private school. I figured with the expensive sculpture in the yard, the piano, and Sheldon’s exquisite lobster thermidor, the headmaster was sure to be impressed. Unfortunately he was so put off by the “look” of the house (which I’m guessing has to do with the lot’s total worth) that he didn’t even bother to get out of his car. This sent both Sheldon’s and Nia’s aspiration meters deep into the red, but the shrink only showed up for Sheldon.

I worked on getting Nia and Sheldon promoted in order to get more money and raise their aspiration meters. In the pic above, Nia practices raising her Charisma with the Execuputter, while Sheldon becomes best friends with Will Dobbins by making fart jokes. The guy walking past is Stewart Beagle, Tess Blakemore’s fiancé.

After Sheldon got promoted a few times, I was able to buy some new appliances for the kitchen and bathroom and expand the living room. My next renovation goal is to expand the kitchen — the kitchen sink is currently in the bathroom because I only have the one kitchen wall.

Sheldon makes such excellent food that everyone started putting on a little weight. Here I have Sheldon doing his crazy yoga so he can get fit.

The girls didn’t seem to mind that they weren’t accepted into private school. They continued on as eager and boisterous as ever, burping into Sheldon’s Teleprompter, bouncing on the couch…

…and splashing in puddles.

It was tough sometimes to get them to do homework, but I had each parent help them the first time, and eventually it became less difficult for them. Kiara also liked to play the piano, while I had Bree play on the Execuputter. The weird thing is that she gained about 5 points of Charisma in just a few hours on that thing. Is that a function of the Execuputter + children? When Nia putted, her Charisma didn’t increase THAT quickly.

The twins became teenagers with little fanfare (I was so busy trying to get them into platinum that I didn’t bother with birthday cakes). Bree was in platinum when she grew up, but Kiara was only in gold. I used an online random number generator to determine their aspirations: Bree will be a Knowledge Sim (yay!), and Kiara will be another Fortune Sim (darn). I’m really sick of Fortune Sims, so I think Bree will definitely be carrying on the Shanley Legacy.

I succeeded in getting Sheldon promoted to Judge and Nia to Vice President of whatever company she works for, but the family net worth is still pretty low — around §38,000. I’m hoping to add some more funds to the family coffers by marrying Kiara to a townie (since the NPCs have diddly squat for cash). Since I want to marry all of my primary heirs to NPCs, however, Bree will probably end up with a Bartender or Exterminator. I guess we’ll see what happens!