Story Progression Update:
Gabby and Jeromy got married! Congratulations, Mr. & Mrs. Snyder-Joy!
Aja SP-Dean celebrates a birthday and is a child!
Katie SP-Ivanov also celebrates and is a YA!
Nikole SP-Ivanov celebrates also and is an elder!
Today is the day! Today we welcome the next generation into the Snyder family!
Grace was so excited about this and couldn’t sleep.
Others were excited, too… or perhaps nervous would be a better description.
Kristy: “Do you think we’ll be good grandparents? Are we too young, too inexperienced?”
Nate: “Relax, honey. You’re the sexiest grandmother in the entire city. There is no other competition for that title in Riverview as far as I can tell.”
“You forgot childishly youthful,” said Kristy with a smile as she took Nate’s hand and led him outside.
Grace took yet another nap…
… and Justin headed out to join her when she came hurrying past him (well, hurrying as fast as a pregnant woman can hurry) saying “Out of my way, pregnant lady has got to go!”
Grace didn’t get far when other urges took over.
Arriving at the hospital and seeing his wife calmly walk past those freaking out over her upcoming delivery, made Justin feel like apologizing for some reason.
Grace seems a little sad or maybe she’s simply concerned that Justin and Nate will be disappointed that they’re outnumbered yet again.
Arriving home, she voices her concerns to Kristy who quickly lets her know that gender isn’t important. What is important is the life they lead and the friendships they make.
Kristy: “So, what did you name her? Jacqueline or Jacki? Some variation of Jake?”
Grace laughs. “No, her name is Summer. We didn’t have a girl’s name picked out and well… she was born in the summertime.”
Kristy didn’t waste any time spreading the good news.
Welcome, little one. You are surrounded by love in this house!
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Summer is a nice cheery name.
Thank you! I think it suits her 🙂
How do you come up with the names? I know mothers get a feel for the baby when they’re pregnant but in a game you don’t get that.
Just curious because I know how hard it is to pick a good character name.
Good question. Usually I pick names based on their meaning, but with this family I also look at how it sounds with the last name of Snyder. For some reason names that start with consonants are more appealing to me so you’ll notice that none of the Snyder names I’ve picked thus far begin with vowels. There are no hard and fast rules with this legacy… probably because I’m trying to stay with the spirit of it being random 😉
Congratulations on the Summer’s birth! She is going to be so cute!
Thanks, RM! With a mom as beautiful as Grace, how could she not be!
That’s exactly what I was thinking! 😀
Summer Snyder is such a catchy name!
Thanks! I try to use a name that pairs well with the Snyder last name and also works well with their rolls which gives me a baseline for what each heir’s personality will be like. The non-heirs gets names that start with the same letter as the heir’s and I tend to roll random traits for them.
For both of my boys I used a name that starts with the same letter as the father’s, that’s why Ethan-Edward and Frederick-Fidelio 😀
That’s a good way of picking names!