#avery vatore

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🎨: Jack and I got the visit we were waiting for. When I went to San Myshuno to see Avery, I asked her to help us find a lawyer to handle the adoption.

Samara (Avery's wife) has a vet tech who went to Buttercup vet school in Brindelton Bay named Nora York. Nora's instructor, the famous Heather Gordon, gave her the name of a close friend. Apparently, Nora overheard our conversation and started asking around. She got the lawyer's name when she attended the wedding of a friend.

Felix Psyded was...well, for lack of a better term, charming. He and Jack hit it off immediately. Felix told us a little about his life, his wife and kids, and his family court history, leaving out confidential information. His name seemed so familiar. I asked Avery if she recognized it from anywhere, but she seemed as unsure as I was.

Finally, we got down to business. We really wanted a "private" adoption. In other words, we wanted to keep the media out of our business. Felix said he would start by immediately finding Drew’s father and serving him with the paperwork to sign away his rights to ensure he couldn't make trouble for us in the future. He was a hard man to pin down, but I had faith in Felix. The other part of the job was to find Eliza and have her served with paperwork to either pay child support and abide by the court-ordered visitation or sign away her rights. We were praying for the latter. We didn't need her child support, but we figured it might sway her if she thought she would have to pay for a child she didn't want.

At the end, Jack and I signed a couple of contracts and forms, and then Felix told us he would see us soon. His confidence that he could get this done with minimal court visits gave me hope. Thank the watcher of Felix.

*Thank you 🙏🏽 @abbysimsfun for lending Kennedy and Jack your esteemed lawyer. I mean, Felix slayed a dragon when he beat the Landgraabs at a custody battle. This is a slam dunk in comparison!

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🎨: I left Sprig with Samara, grabbed a cup of coffee, and went to meet my best friend. Avery took her godmother's responsibilities seriously. Jack couldn’t get out of work to come with me for my second-term ultrasound, and he had to pick up the girls from preschool, so Avery was there in his place. She’s nearly as excited as we are to be having this baby. Plus, rumor has it we’re going to make Mara and Mya the babies' godmothers. So there was a lot to celebrate.

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🎨: It was official. We were Britechester graduates! Dad, Nana and Grandpa would have been so proud…..Jack too.

* I didn’t bring up Jack Kennedy, did I? She has a want to chat with her crush, who happens to be Jack. No time seemed like a good one with everything happening, but she’s moving to San Myshuno soon, and that’s where Jack is from. He’s not back from the Military yet (he hasn’t completed his 4 years), but will she reach out before he returns, or will she run into him first? And how will he react to all the changes in her life?

*If the graduation pictures look like two separate lots, it’s because they are. They attended the standard university graduation, and then I held a Britechester University graduation ceremony event right after. (The Sims team missed out on a big opportunity there.) I combined them!

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🎨: Avery had debate practice, so I made plans with some other friends.

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🪖: Avery came over to babysit Lizbeth and deliver a very important gift while Jaxon and Quinn watched Lane. Neddy and I had a gym date. She hadn’t actually called it that when she asked me to go with her but that wasn’t important. What was important was that she had a gym in the common area of her apartment, so why did she need to come all the way to my neighborhood to work out? (Kennedy lives in the spice district while Jack lives in the Fashion district. Ngl this sentence immediately made me think of hungry games)

I had some ideas, but I wasn’t sure it was the appropriate time to act on them. Instead I let her drag me to this fancy gym that had rock climbing walls. She was pumped, and I was cocky. You would think that having military training would make me an excellent rock climber. Wrong. There’s a huge difference between rock climbing and this😑. Let’s just say she wiped the gym floor with me in every sense of the word.

My back was going to hurt for days, but the exhilarated look on her face as she climbed the wall was worth it. It took me back to high school; back then, she was a high flyer and top of the pyramid as well as cheer team captain. When I got home after dropping off the rocking climbing champ, Avery was in the living room reading a book while Lizbeth slept in her arms. She smirked at me, and I just smiled back. I put Liz to bed as she gathered her things. As she was closing the front door, I heard her call out

Avery: She crossed a bridge to go to a gym! With YOU! I’m Just saying!

My neighbors would savor that bit of information, considering I didn’t have many interactions with them, but I didn’t care because, as always, Avery had a point, but was she right? I’d find out soon enough.

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The interaction/ animation for Avery and Lizbeth reading is another of @simkatu mods “lap reading for infants & reading while infants nap on laps”

*Y’all, the rock wall was not feeling Jack at all. He fell off a total of 4 times 🫣. After the 2nd time, I stopped taking pictures and just felt bad 😓. I’m sure he needs to a back doctor at this point.

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🎨: I couldn’t go home for Harvestfest. It was the day before finals, and driving triggered my morning sickness. Avery and I luckily had no class on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so we were free to set up a small dinner for 4. After dinner, I pulled Drew into my bedroom and broke the news. His reaction was not what I expected. He was overjoyed. He’s an only child who was raised by his father, and he always dreamed of a big family. I figured this was a good time to talk about our relationship. Drew assured me during the time we’d been dating that he hadn’t been seeing anyone else. He said he wanted to ask me to be his girlfriend officially, but he didn’t want to pressure me, so he was waiting for me to make the first move. At that moment, I felt like I could fall for him. That night, we made our relationship official.

*Yes! Avery is sick again!

*So Drew is telling the truth. I have a mod called Curious Inquiries and a mod that adds a memory system. Drew has only kissed and woohooed with Kennedy. He has no other romantic interests or partners. We have a winner, ladies and gentlemen!

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📗: Jack called while we were on break. He was on a short leave in San My to visit his family. I went to check in and see how he was doing. Manu and I agreed that he seemed better than he was 2 years ago. It was good to know he was doing well. The Military was changing him. When he asked me how Neddy was and why she hadn't returned his text, I admit I told a little white lie. I told him she was swamped with classes and training, Sprig. I didn't mention Drew. It didn't seem like my place to tell him, but it was evident from his expression, he was still in love with her.

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🎨: I got to pick up the girls every day now that I'm on maternity leave. Today, when we got home, I made dinner and waited for Jack to get in from work. We sat down for dinner when Nu called and said he was on the way. He wasn’t alone. Avery made the trip with him to Willow Creek to drop off her shower gift and joined us for dinner. It was perfect 🥰.