Hello and welcome back to the Easter Egg challenge with Tara Cobb! The last time we saw Tara, she was busy with Cad and Robin as infants, as well as trying to get rid of a rival at work. Towards the end of the update, Cad and Robin grew into toddlers and started on their skills, and Tara finally got a new promotion. Let’s dig in!
Week 7
When we are first back with Tara, she isn’t even at home with her boys. Instead, she’s at the pool. Why is she here? Well, that is a very good reason, the Paragons meet here.
She spent some time talking to the clubmates, joined, and then, while I apparently didn’t get a picture of the convo, Tara convinced the leader to hand over the reins to her. Tara now leads the Paragons.
Next up is the Renegades, who also meet at the pool, funnily enough. She works to get to know the members and, once again, gets accepted to the club.
It was an easy thing to convince their leader to also step down. That means that Tara is now both the leader of the Renegades and the Paragons. Both clubs are Easter Eggs to Mass Effect, and this gives us 40 points.
When we get home, Cadbury is reading a book. Book reading is encouraged, and, in fact, we can still get some points for reading books in this challenge. What is he reading?
Cad is reading Charlotte’s Pig. This is clearly a play on Charlotte’s Web, and Cadbury seems to really enjoy his book. His brother is also busy reading.
Little Robin is busy reading A Good Night’s Moon, which was actually REALLY difficult for me to type, since I kept wanting to call it Goodnight Moon, the real book it’s based on. Those give us 5 points each, although they didn’t check off reading, so I won’t grant those points quite yet.
Since we do want to get the postcard collection done, and Tara has already gotten a start on that, to finish the collection completely, we need a rodent. Meet Thimble. We did not rename him, but I love the little baby hedgehogs.
With Timble settled, it’s time to take care of the boys. Robin was in desperate need of a bath, and then Tara actually read both boys to sleep, even though I only captured Robin’s bedtime story.
Tara has been working pretty late nights, and she got a promotion, which is going to keep her out of the house for even more hours in the evening! Luckily, our trusty nanny can adjust to her schedule.
I swear, Cadbury is still around, but Robin is next seen chatting with the nanny. I think Cad was working on his communication skills with the bear in their room.
When Tara is at home, she is usually playing games. I really want the points for winning the tournaments, but I also know it’s going to be tough. I’m not even entirely sure it’s possible, but we’ll see.
It was rebate day, so Tara bought a new big TV, and while she was at it, added a bookcase and some fun decor. These plants are called The Planters Five, and are clearly a reference to Encanto, especially since they mention the plant called Bruno that they don’t talk about. Then the mushroom from the werewolves’ pack is called The Tiny Fungus Among Us, and is clearly trying to be a reference to the video game Among Us.
See, I didn’t cheat Cad away! He was just busy elsewhere. I actually have a real soft spot for poor Cad. It’s not his fault that the game was trolling me. Anyway, it was his turn for a bath.
Tara has finally reached the point where she can hack the supercomputer, and she did it. Got a fair amount of money from it too! When you hack the supercomputer, you get old modem sounds, and it’s quite fun. That gives us 15 points.
Toddler training days. It’s nice that Tara works late, because it means she is here if the toddlers need her, but mostly they skill and take care of themselves, except for food and baths.
Daddy Don comes and visits, and proves he really is a good dad to kids. He gives Robin a bath and then tucks him into bed and checks on Cad. The boys have been skilling like crazy and are almost maxed on all of their skills.
Which is really good because it’s their birthday already. It seems like it went so quickly, but Tara made up a honey cake and invited all the easter egg sims we know to come celebrate.
Robin maxed all of his toddler skills, finishing the last one as the party was starting. He also unlocked many milestones along the way.
He is the first one to the cake, and Tara helps him blow out candles, and then he grows up. He will get a makeover here soon that you will see in later pictures.
Much like his twin, Cad also maxed all of his toddler skills. He actually did it before his brother, and he also unlocked quite a few milestones.
Cad was brought to the cake and blew out his candles with his mom’s help, and we officially have two children in the house.
Thimble got the boys a kind of gift by bringing us a new postcard. I do love these little notices. He’s even worked with nuclear fusion already.
Tara completes her aspiration of being a computer whiz, and she rolls to get nerd brain next. That should be fairly easy to complete.
Cadbury is now an Active boy with the Rambuncious Scamp aspiration. Thank you, randomizer, that is so perfect. Robin is an adventurous boy, and he has the Whiz Kid aspiration. So we get the boys a chess table and wicker whims furniture, for the easter egg fun.
Tara competes in a notice tournament and actually wins! This isn’t a professional tournament, and I’m not sure if it matters, but we have proven we CAN win!
After school the next day, the boys both come in and work on their homework. You can see a bit of the makeover we did to their room. I don’t think anything in here is a new easter egg.
Cadbury and Robin pull a lot of pranks on each other, and Cadbury, at least, decides that he likes that. He’s a prank kid.
The boys spend a lot of time together in the evenings with each other. With their mom often at work until super late, they entertain themselves. They are good kids and are happy to stay in and play games.
Tara was working on the professional tournaments and studying her moves when she officially maxed the video gaming skill! Way to go, Tara, that’s a big accomplishment.
It’s Love Day, so Tara invites Don over, and they catch up. She is grateful he’s been around to help with the boys multiple times, and thanks him by giving him a tulip. He really likes it.
He then heads in and helps his sons with their homework. Daddy Don was a really good choice for this challenge!
Thimble’s enclosure got really, really gross, poor Thimble. Luckily, Robin was there to help him out and make sure he had a nice, clean enclosure before school.
It might be late in the day, but the boys head to the playground not too far from their house to play. Cad needed that for his aspiration, which we are able to get right away, no problems.
Tara came home with another promotion and is one step away, I believe, from completing her career! This gave her a new computer too.
Tara still takes time to keep her garden and her bees happy. The potato she sprouted will never sprout if she doesn’t someday build a greenhouse, but we’ll see what happens.
Like his mom, Robin decides he likes video games. Well, kid, get some practice in, and maybe you can help your mom win tournaments.
Tara has been so busy she hasn’t been able to run her selling table, so Robin, the sweetheart he is, decides to try his hand at a yard sale. He even manages to sell a few things.
Tara needs to relax a bit and has been gaming a lot, so she grabs a new book. The boys aren’t really interested in reading with their mom, but luckily, their dad was around to hang out with for a while. Tara reading while drinking some water is so relatable to me.
She was reading Dusk Glow, which is a new book, and I will go ahead and count this as a book for points. This is a play on Twilight, and there are multiple in the series in sims. That will give us +5 points and wrap up our week.
We actually earned some new points today! For this week, we added 60 points to our total and are now at 235 points. Not a bad week, since for a couple of weeks there we were either not earning points or losing points. Hopefully, in the next few updates, we can earn even more! Thanks for reading, and I hope you will join us for the next update soon!
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