Put those hearts away or so help me…

Last time there was cake as toddlers grew into kids (and a new tot was added). This time.. ceremonies, emergencies, and more birthdays (boring cake-less adult ones).

We start out on the weekend, so the three loves-the-outdoors kids are happily crawling all over the treehouse.

Molly finally gets a ceremony thrown in her honor at city hall… and this is the pitiful turnout. LOL Poor Molly. Also, man this town goes through mayors like nobody’s business. It’s a different one each time.

The kids all wished to take painting classes, so off they go.

Another ceremony (this time with decent turnout), another new mayor. Perhaps THAT’S a case Molly should investigate.

Molly: No way, this new mayor threw me an awesome party. We’re besties for life.

After their class, the kids hung at the library. The twins were loving the block table, Luna got cracking on writing a sci-fi book. We have block tables and computers at home, but apparently the ones at the library are way cooler. Just like real life kids.

Sammy is back home working on teaching Artie to walk, talk, and use a potty. I took surprisingly few pictures of this. Sad. He was just as adorable as the other toddlers.

Another week on the job, another boring small house fire.. wait, is that a day care van? But I only know one day care in town…

Yep! It’s a fire at his parents’ house. Basil and Kitty do their adorably synchronized freak out moves outside while Liam extinguishes the flame in a flash.

Liam was much happier about the next emergency – a large house fire. You and me both, buddy. Sims to save! Still, maybe don’t gleefully clap about the fire right in front of the person whose house is burning down?

He convinced her to run (which really meant she continued to stand there freaking out about a foot away from the fire.) Liam hosed the fire (and the sim) down and then looked for others to rescue.

Later, we zoomed to Molly who was searching for prints in a stranger’s kitchen…and also aging up. She’s now officially an adult. She has 17/35 cases solved for her lifetime want (so REALLY 28/35, since we lost 11 back when her count reset when they moved.)

This of course meant it was Liam’s birthday too. His boy remembered, and whirled a party spinner for him as he aged to adult as well. He has 20/30 sims saved for his lifetime want. A couple more earthquakes and we should be set (or maybe even a large house fire and only one earthquake).

And then the little boys were adorable. *wub*

Bonehilda has added a new trick to her repertoire. No longer happy to merely make drinks and wet on the floor, she now also opens the fridge, gets out a juice box (or brain freeze a la mode, or bread and jam, etc) and then just.. sets it on the counter to rot. Y’all.. I think we have found the posterchild of “overstaying your welcome.”

Sammy! What the — NO! Bonehilda and hearts should never be together above your head, especially not with that devilish look. Okay, that’s it. Homewrecker Bonehilda has to go (and maybe Molly should come home now and then and remind her man he’s married.) My plan is being set into motion sim-tomorrow.

Next time, we cross all our crossables that this will work to rid the household of the bonemaid who got invited to a party and then wouldn’t leave. (And couldn’t be dismissed – or interacted with at all – and couldn’t be reset and didn’t go away when I downloaded Overwatch & Error Trap…)

Would you like a tour?

Hey all, I’m feeling under the weather and therefore not much up to playing today. (You know it’s bad when sitting on your butt at a computer takes too much energy.) But I realized I never did do a proper house tour back when Liam & Molly moved in. So let’s do that. 🙂

My amazing husband made the house for me. I love playing with the fake people but not so much making the houses. He doesn’t understand the draw of the pixel people, but enjoys the house building. Aw, he completes me. *hehe*

Anyway, here we go!

Here’s the outside of the house. Obviously. It’s yellow, which is my favorite color, and has a big ole wrap-around porch which I would LOVE to have. Lucky little simmies.

To the left is the side door that leads into the mudroom/laundry nook. On the right is the garage which would have been attached if the sims game didn’t make it so impossible to build a house on a foundation with an attached garage on a slab. Straight ahead you can see a peek into the backyard with my favorite little touch – a treehouse. I’ve wanted a treehouse for pretty much all my years. Hopefully I’ll get a real one before I’m too old to climb the ladder, but for now he gave me one for my fake people.

And so I make us them play in it all the time. Good times.

Here’s the garage. It’s garage-y. The fire alarm on the wall is because Liam is Fire Chief so he can work from home. His fire truck is too big to fit in the garage, so it’s actually parked on the lawn behind the garage (you can see a peek of it through the back window there) with no plausible way for him to get it there.

Back to the front of the house, here’s the entry if you go in the main door. Study on the left, living space (and stairs to second floor) straight ahead, dining room to the right. There’s a lot of pale blue paint. It’s my favorite paint color.

Study (with a couple toddler toys scattered about, because kids)

Dining room, with remnants of the last birthday, apparently.

Walking through the dining room and looking to the right, you’ll see the laundry nook and door that leads out to the garage. (If you look in the dining room pic above, you can see an edge of this door through the  walkway.)

Looking straight from the dining room’s walkway, you’ll be able to see the kitchen & breakfast nook.

And turning left, you can see Bonehilda’s hangout the wet bar and the living space in the background with french doors leading out to the patio with an in-deck pool.

Went and stood by one of the doors to give a different angle on the living room. Again with random toys, because kids. The door straight ahead leads to the guest (half) bath. It’s tiny so no pic. The door nearest the fireplace leads to the master suite.

The view when you first walk into that door and look towards the right. Let’s get a better angle.

The master suite. Molly claimed this one as soon as they got here. Liam didn’t care, since he was always at the station anyway. (Of course now that he works from home and Molly is ALWAYS out on cases, this seems silly, but whatever.) The door corner on the far left leads out to the patio. The hallway that’s straight ahead actually has three door – the one that we came in (hidden on the left) that leads to the living room, the one at the far end which leads to the study, and the one on the right which leads to the en suite bath. There’s also an armoire in a nook behind the wall next to the bed. We will now tiptoe back past sleeping Sammy & Artie and peek in the master bath.

And the master en suite. His & hers sinks, separate tub & shower, and an area for you to take care of all your bladder bar needs, walled off for more privacy. Alright, that’s everything downstairs. Back to the stairs to head up.

As you head up the stairs and turn left you see…Bonehilda, slacking off in a whole new way. Uh, I mean the loft. There’s a half wall there on the right side of the pic (it’s straight ahead as you walk up the stairs) that lets you overlook the living space downstairs. The door ahead on the right leads to Liam & Melissa’s room.

Here’s their room. The french door on the left leads to the upper deck, the door on the right leads to their (full) bath. It’s not as fancy as the one in the master, so no pics of that. Behind the wall that has the city skyline pic on it is a nook with a dresser. Heading back out the far door and past Bonehilda again…

Here’s what it looks like if you turn right at the top of the stairs instead. The first door on the right is a full bath. The door straight ahead is a bedroom (theoretically for Phoenix, but he ditched it in favor of sleeping out in the treehouse), and then around the corner is a door to the final bedroom (where the girls sleep.)

Phoenix’s room. The only bedroom without an attached bath, but since there’s a full bath right next to this room it’s sort of like he has one.

The girls’ room. Over on the right where you can’t see is the door to their attached (full) bath (again, basic, so no shots) and a dresser. And french doors on the left that lead out to the upper patio.

Upper patio from over by the doors to the girls’ room.

Lower deck.

And.. there we have it. I have toured the heck out of that house for you. If anyone’s interested, I can try to figure out how to share it. Hopefully soon The Ick Feeling will leave me alone and I can play for a proper update.

Let them eat cake

So last time there was mainly a whole lot of skillin’ going on for the toddlers. We shall continue toddler spam this time around (because I love those little guys), but lots of birthdays as well I’m sure.

Let’s start out with a quick sim check. What are all my simmies doing this evening?

Melissa and Sammy are reading to their respective mini-me’s, Phoenix and Luna.

Ember is kicking ass and taking names at the peg box.

Liam always seems to garden when it’s dark outside. I need to add lights here.

And Molly is out wrapping up a case when she has to run a couple steps away and toss her cookies.

Glitched Basement Cat client: “Oooo girl, that’s nasty.”

Nasty though it may be, hooray for the final heir possibility being on its way!

And one more look at toddlers before they get put to bed for the night. This is apparently the really suspenseful part of the fingerpainting book. *hehe*

Luna knows she’s adorable.

Phoenix is no chopped liver himself. Seriously, one of these kids better turn out ugly or annoying so I can narrow it down, because right now I have no clue. LOL

The next morning, Liam & Melissa were called to avert a disaster at the criminal warehouse.

Molly is, of course, out investigating more. Sammy has been the de facto stay-at-home parent since he moved in. He arrived with a photographer career, despite my not having World Adventure and thus no way for him to advance in that career as I have no camera. For now, he paints and tends kids.

Kids who are totally adorable. ❤ Look at these girls.

It was a big day fore the fire department. No sooner did they get home after getting things in hand from the criminal plot gone awry than they were called out to a large house fire. Liam & Melissa worked together to tackle most of the fire. As soon as the last window fire was out, Melissa turned and hightailed it off the lot. Weird, but whatever, since I won’t let her rescue the sims anyway. There’s three in here and they’re all going to go to Liam’s count gosh darnit. I sent him in, he convinced the first sim to leave and then…

…a freaking METEOR came out of the sky and struck the lot. I missed the streak as it fell, but here’s the ensuing explosions. At this point I had my game paused, mentally cussing it out and trying to remember when the last time I saved was. I lucked out though.. Melissa had left, so she was fine, and Liam was totally unscathed too. Not sure how he managed that. Everyone inside was fine, actually. Just the person arriving home got scorched, but no one died. It did however cancel out my large house fire event, so I only got to save 1 sim.

Liam wasn’t too traumatized by it all; he just headed home with thoughts of a nice cool dip in the pool. Melissa meanwhile was busy attacking Phoenix with The Claw.

The next day it was time for Luna’s birthday. Daddy brought her to the cake, and Mommy even managed to swing home from working her case. A birthday derp face, a sparkle, a spin, and…

Luna’s a child now, and looking forward to school. And I finally got around to dressing her in her favorite color (lime) like I did with the twins.

Molly heads back out on her case, only to give a derp face of her own as she claws through her stomach. To the hospital with you, Molly. The art heist will have to wait.

And here she is arriving home with the newest (and final) member of the family… Artie. (Because she was working on the art heist case when she had him. We’re going for non-creative names this generation. LOL) I don’t remember his traits (which I randomized), but I do remember he’s the first one of the kids to not have “Loves the Outdoors”.

The next emergency was a simbot gone wild at the movie theater. I don’t generally follow building disasters, but I had to go scope this one out because as far as I know, Salvatore (their “half-brother” LOL) is the only simbot in town. Who should I see when I get to the lot but Salvatore himself, standing and shrugging as if to say “Wasn’t me.” And then I noticed in the background, way across the park, Kitty & Basil are out flirting and chatting and generally being sweet still. 🙂

Back at home, Bonehilda was being a giant jerk and blocking the crib so Artie couldn’t get a diaper change. She likes to come and just stand there when he’s dirty, doing jack diddly about it except making it impossible for the others to get through. Not to worry though. You can see she thinks she’s “hungry”, which just means she’ll go and make a tray of booze I’m sure.

Luna’s proving to be pretty awesome though. Adorable playing in the sprinkler, and then when Bonehilda won’t clean up after her leaky self, she does it.

This is Bonehilda’s version of prepping for the end days or something. It’s 7:24 a.m.

As for the rest of the family, not a one is planning an intervention for the alcoholic bone-maid. Melissa is feeding Ember, Sammy is breakfasting on cake (trying to finish that before we have the next round of birthdays later today), Liam is hiding out in the bathroom (seriously no idea why he’s just standing there LOL), Molly is out on a case (*fake shock*), Luna is peek-a-booing with her cousin Phoenix, and Artie just chilling because he’s a magical unicorn sim baby who pretty much never cries.

Molly heads to City Hall to pick up an award. Meanwhile, they throw Liam yet another ceremony. Molly watches through the door, with no creepy competitive gleam in her eyes at all. I swear.

Molly: Throw him all the ceremonies you want. I WILL reach that LTW goal before he does.

That evening is birthday time! And knowing that there’d be cake for the eating as soon as they grew up, everyone just let the toddlers starve. Cheer up and blow out the candles and there will be food, Ember. (Food for days, because we actually have THREE cakes. Yours, your brother’s, and your baby cousin’s.)

Still cute. And dressed in her favorite color of orange.

Next was Phoenix’s turn. Another round of derp-sparkle-spin and…

..poof. A red-loving child Phoenix, who rolled the Rebellious trait. (I don’t think I’ve ever played a sim with that trait. Should be fun.)

And, because we just didn’t have enough cake, Artie had his birthday too.

Sammy’s hair color, Molly’s eye color, but other than that I’m not sure who he’ll resemble most feature-wise. He sure is cute though.

Whew. Okay. Now that our fridge is totally stocked with cake, I think we’ll call it this time. And I have a plan for a possible way to get rid of Bonehilda. Maybe I’ll be able to try that out next time.

Skillin’ like a villain

Last time, all the babies aged up, Molly got married while people called her for dates, and Bonehilda decided to never leave after the bachelorette party of the previous post and turned out to be a really annoying drunk.

Hey look, Molly remembered she had a kid! She picked her up and tried to cart her upstairs to stick in one of the cribs in her brother & sister-in-law’s room. Nope, that one is yours Molly. And she’s not even tired. Put her down if you’re not going to bond.

These two even got twin dolls. Neat. Now someone do something with the kids so they stop playing with them.

Sammy works on teaching Luna how to say “Selfie.”

Basil cheers as Melissa sets in teaching Ember about bugs.

Ember herself seems a little more dubious about the subject choice.

Okay, one more kid, who’s gonna work with Phoenix?

Liam: “Not me. I’m doing laundry. This place is trashed.”

What? We have a bone-maid that won’t leave, where’s she at?

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Oh. Yes. Busy as ever I see. *sigh*

Alright then, Molly you’re up.

Molly: Huh? Wasn’t mine a girl?

Yep. Don’t care. Your case will wait.

And so they dish about celebrity crushes or something, I don’t know.

They all learned to talk. With most of the adults exhausted or starving by the end, Luna & Ember were left to chat by the block table.

Ember: “My mommy taught me about entomology!”
Luna: “You’re so lucky. I think my mommy picked me up once.”

Liam starts working on teaching his boy to walk.

Hearts over a shower + lullaby jingle = one final spawn on the way for Molly

Phoenix joins the girls over at the block table until we can get more adults happy again.

Twins skilling twins. Twinception?

Luna, who has learned everything else, works with the peg box.

As for the other adults, Melissa is being awesome and upgrading a toilet. Sammy is being a lazy bum and reading a book that’s not even a skill book. And then is even lazier when he heads off to bed, ignoring his tired child in the room with him. Nope, get back here and bring her too.

There we go. And yep, I think Luna’s going to favor her dad. Phoenix.. well, there’s no doubt he’s a mini-me of of his mom.

Three toddlers successfully on the same sleep schedule! *high fives self*

Fear not, giant mob outside the school, the overlapping firetrucks outside mean that TWO firefighters are here to save the day!

While their folks save the day, Phoenix & Ember work on learning things at home.

And Luna gets story time from daddy.

When they get back from teaming up to save the school, Liam & Melissa team up again for some dual potty training. Yeah it’s a walls-down shot. Powder room is tiny.

An earthquake! Go, Liam, go! It’s your chance to save a zillion sims!

This one is his twin’s best friend since forever.
Liam: Ugh, get up Karina, I’m not giving you mouth-to-mouth. You’re fine.
Karina: Can’t blame a girl for trying.

Gas leak? I’m sure these sparks won’t hurt anything.

Saved a couple people in the backyard too. I’m not sure where the rubble came from out there, but whatever.

To the next house! Um.. that’s the beach.

Liam: Yeah, I think Imma play some chess.

No. Get thee to the house that you parked your truck at. There’s LIVES TO SAVE.

Even glitched Basement Cat sims can be saved during earthquakes, since all you have to click is the rubble. Yay!

Oh man.. that deck railing doesn’t look too secure if you can just kick your foot right through it. But two more sims to save up here, so get to it.

On to the final house. Oh no!! Poppy! This is not how I wanted to see your expressionless face!

Liam puts on his game face. “I’ll save you, Aunt Poppy! You just hang in there!”

And because I can never resist taking a pic when she does have an expression, here she is freaking out while Liam rescues the final sim. LOL

I think we’ll call it there. Tons of toddler skills taught, and 8 sims saved. Next time there will, I’m sure, be more toddler spam, but also a birth and several birthdays.

Dem Not-So-Dry Bones

Last time Molly popped out a kid, Liam FINALLY was able to get married and then they had a kid…and a bonus tag-along kid. Three infants in the house. Oof.

We’ll start off this chapter with Liam hitting max athletic.

And then.. a wild earthquake appears! Liam takes off to tend to the emergencies while thinking of his recent nuptials.

I thought I had a shot of him digging sims out from under the rubble. Alas I do not. Please accept this fire-in-the-pool-room shot instead.

I have decided earthquakes are where it’s at. I believe we’re at 9/30 after this…yep, 7 rubble-covered people got saved during just one earthquake. Here’s hoping we have more of those.

So…guess who’s still around after that bachelor party? Bonehilda is just stuck in a loop of make drinks, drink drink, create puddle, mop puddle.. stopping now and then to make beds or to stand in front of the cribs of babies with dirty diapers so that no adult can actually get to them. I tried resetting her in hopes that would send her home (remember, she’s not ours!) It did not. Didn’t even move her.

Molly finally popped a want to get married, so I sent her up to the upper floor balcony and called Sammy over to have a nice private ceremony right here. And so she ruins my shot with not just a ringing phone, but also a skill bar (I guess getting married builds charisma? Otherwise no idea what it was for.)

They quickly exchange rings while I try to ignore the pocket ringing (no, she would not like to go on a date with you, she’s busy FORSAKING ALL OTHERS)

I now pronounce you man and wife.

Aw, look at how adoringly he looks at her. I bet he’s thinking how beautiful she — oh. Why are his first married words about Melissa?

And then he is (mostly) forgiven because his first action as a member of the household is to autonomously walk downstairs, gaze at his baby girl, and do a fist pump. (Or maybe he was just happy she was asleep.)

Birthday time for Luna! Aunt Melissa (who had done pretty much all the taking care of burrito baby Luna) was deliriously excited for this milestone.

Sparkle sparkle.. age up.. oof. Baby girl, I will fix you up, gimme a sec.

Aw, that’s better! With clothes & hair, she’s actually kind of adorable! And a moon dress? How perfect! She has her mom’s hair color, but I have a feeling she’s going to look mostly like her daddy otherwise. We shall see.

Sammy set to skilling her right away.

Because mommy’s off on a case, digging in trash & dusting for prints.

Liam & Melissa set about filling up the bars of their spawn.
Liam: Mehhhhh…
Melissa: I get to feed him a bottle zomg SQUEEEE!!!!1!

After the babies bars were all full needs were all tended to, Liam tried to head to the garage to workout. Dude. You already maxed that. Upgrade your extinguisher.

Meanwhile Bonehilda wets herself. Again.

Melissa is upgrading the speakers of a stereo for an opportunity. She decided to work on her plies while doing so. (Seriously, what is up with that leg positioning?)

Liam: We were JUST up here like 90 minutes ago. How are they lonely again?
No idea, man. I’ve never seen sim babies whose social bar drops as quickly as these two, and neither one has a social  trait. (I randomized. Both ended up with Loves the Outdoors, Phoenix got Virtuoso and Ember got Artistic. Neither got Super Clingy Needy Attention Hog.)

Equally perplexing is why Liam rolled a want for another baby when he always pulls this face around the two he already has. No more for you, mister. No more for anyone right now.

Anyway, they got the twins happy again, and then it was off to City Hall because the mayor (who looks fresh out of Hogwarts) was holding a ceremony for Fire Chief Liam. There was much confetti, and balloons, and pro-firefighter signage, and cheering..

Then they got ready to fight.

Just kidding. Mayor Hogwarts slipped an invisible medal around his neck and gave him a present, but apparently had a moment where he thought about punching him.

Liam: OMFG a present?! I LOVE presents!! You must really like me!

Oh Liam, if only you knew what he had been thinking moments before.

Then it was time for everyone to cheer more while Liam stood amidst it all thinking about what a mother-flippin’ hero he was.

And then the ceremony was abruptly over, everyone started thinking of someone else, and I snapped the second shot because you can see all the little glitched “Basement Cat” sims because their thought bubbles are sprouting from the ground. HOW do I fix this? Drives me bonkers.

Learning to talk.

Bonehilda.

No.

Stop.

Bonehilda: “Someone was thoughtful enough to make these refreshing drinks.”

You. You made those drinks. Leave them be.

Seriously, put the glass down.

Bonehilda: Hmm, there seems to be a puddle here…

GAH. Bonehilda, you need a 12 step program. Seriously. *tries again to reset her with still no effect*

Off taking a random pretty shot of the lighthouse at sunset when the game lets me know…

The mystical full moon begins its ascent into the sky. Goodie. First Bonehilda who may as well be named Betsy Wetsy, then the weird full moon lighting…

…and zombies moaning and groaning about not being able to get in my locked gate to eat Liam’s brain and/or his garden. Supernatural is not my favorite EP at the moment.

Oh well, babies are growing up anyway, weird lighting be damned.

Oh, uh, but first Melissa. I totally didn’t forget you. Happy Adulting.

Basil! *squee* I missed you. You’re looking dapper in your old age. Glad you could come to watch the babies get big. (Kitty’s here too, but she stays on the porch an awkwardly long time.)

Now up is Phoenix. Liam suffocates the baby in his armpit before dropping him on the floor to spin & sparkle.

Boom. One birthday derp done. Next!

Ember is brought to the cake as gramma Kitty decides to join the rest of us inside.

And that seals it. All three toddlers are adorable little smushfaces and I love them. Any of them (or Molly’s final kid if she has one.. there’s one more house slot) will be potentially up for heirdom, since I never did pick a Molly or a Liam. Definitely no more dual heirs though. I want a nice, calm, teeny-tiny generation next go round. LOL

But I’m getting way ahead of myself. They’re all just tots. Which means, next time… toddler spam! And it’ll be awesome because the full moon sickly glow won’t be there all the time.

The marrying kind

Last time the twins aged into young adults & I put off the heir decision, playing both of them until I see whose first kid is cutest. Liam had a zillion interactions with his chosen mate but could never get to propose or try for baby. Molly pried herself away from work long enough for one date and jammed a try for baby in there too. She’s going for efficiency.

 

I sent Liam over to the Blackwell house first thing in the morning, as the map said Melisa was in there. Ralph answered the door instead, and stood on the front porch in front of the door, scowling at Liam without inviting him inside. I was not amused. So I let Liam fulfill his wish to beat up Ralph. After this, Melisa came out and left to go to work. ARGH. I sent Liam on to work too.

Found her at work, romanced our way up to irresistible, but still no propose option. What the heck, game? I had him “go here with” Melisa to a separate lot and same thing.

Meanwhile, Molly had hunted down Sammy because she had some news to tell him. Ignore the music notes. Her phone like to never stops ringing, mostly with date requests. If there’s an important life moment, chances are Molly’s pocket jingles will be there to ruin the shot. ANYWAY.. so it would appear that their little meeting in the shower at the local pool had officially gotten generation 5 underway. (The phone call was indeed a date request. From a middle-aged uncle-by-marriage. Um, no thanks Uncle Creeper, we’ll pass on that date offer.)

It was at this moment that I had a thought. The household is currently at 5 (Basil & Kitty, Liam, Molly, and Salvatore the SimBot). If the game had decided Molly needed triplets (please no), then it would be at 8 and thus full. Maybe THAT was why I couldn’t get the propose marriage option (or the friendly “ask to move in” option) for Liam’s girl. So, as all the houses in town were currently occupied, it was off to Edit Town to plop down a house that my awesome husband built.

And this concludes your house tour. Apparently this is all the pictures I took of the house after I moved just the twins in. I’m lame. I’ll get to an actual house tour at some point. Maybe. Anyway, downstairs has bedroom & bathroom on the left, study/library, dining room, laundry, kitchen/breakfast area, living room w/ bar. There’s a pool on the back deck. Upper floor has a small loft w/ foozball & reading nook, and three more bedrooms and bathrooms.

So I moved the twins in alone. Molly’s LTW count reset and I almost cried. She had done 11/35. Liam had yet to have anything beyond a bunch of small house fires so he was still sitting at 0/30. I won’t feel bad about cheating to add Molly’s cases back in…if I can figure out how. But, more importantly, it didn’t seem to help the Liam-can’t-propose issue. Thankfully, I had done one more thing in Edit Town…put a shower in the gender-neutral bathroom of the firehouse. 😛

Yes! The Try for Baby option was there! They took off running for the shower. Where’s the fire, you two? (HA! Man, I kill me.)

Another day, another small house fire. Seriously, where are the people to rescue? I had no idea this wish was going to be so impossible.

Molly hadn’t bothered to stop working. A little thing like pregnancy wasn’t going to slow her down. And so, at the peak of a full moon, we have Molly’s labor begin. I know all you can see is a glowing hat and some legs silhouetted against the walk, but just believe me when I say it’s Molly clutching her stomach and grumbling that she would have finished this case too, if it weren’t for this meddling kid.

Okay, Molly. Hospital. My real-life kids talked me into Supernatural, so there’s zombies wandering about now & I won’t have you be a sitting, laboring duck for their attack. Just go have the “meddling kid” at the hospital so you’re safe.

Awww, look who’s in maternity clothes! Woop woop!

And here we have Molly arriving at her new home with her new baby girl, Luna. Because what else are you gonna name a baby born under a full moon? 😉 Sammy’s hot on the heels of his two best girls…and ends up sprinting past them. We’ll say it’s so he can open the door for them. At any rate, I have her invite him to stay the night.

Awww.. Molly has one (and just one, not triplets like I was briefly terrified by), and Liam has one on the way after TONS of work. LOL I took a brief moment to swoon and then remembered what happened the last time this sort of situation came up.

(sorry for the photo-of-a-screen, my screenshot is not working)
Remember generation 2 (non-heir) when Felix was a fireman who knocked up his fiance before moving out? His baby girl was Rita, and she was nowhere to be found when they finally moved in together. The family tree had her at perma-toddler. I went and looked (finally figured out I could pull up details from their portrait) and found this. Game says she burned to death. A toddler, immune to fire, whose father lived at the fire station and so could say with 100% certainty that there hadn’t been a fire at that house….and even she wasn’t safe.

Nope.

Not gonna happen again, not on my watch. Liam, where are you?

Ah. Finish your cannonball, and then we’re off to hunt down your woman. Maybe now that she’s pregnant and the game won’t let her work she’ll stop running away on community lots. Call her to meet you at the beach so we don’t have to deal with Ralph.

While Liam does that, I get the bright idea to check and see if the proposing action is broken in general. Sammy was still over from when Molly had him stay the night. It showed up right away for them, so as Liam was still driving to meet Melisa, Molly gets proposing done like a boss. Then she leaves to finish up that case, sure that Luna’s in good hands with daddy there. (And calls a babysitter as extra insurance. LOL)

 

Step 1) Romance. Step 2) Pop the question. Step 3) Offer jewelry as bribe and hear the excited squeal of acceptance. (And the excited squeal of the sim player who FINALLY made it happen. LOL)

And then, I was terrified the luck would be fleeting, so the wedding happened immediately. (Shot composed because I realized you could see the groom’s childhood home up on the left there.)

 

So much spam of them exchanging rings (think I was a wee bit excited to have this a possibility? LOL)

Liam Jacobsen and his new bride, Melissa Jacobsen. (Yay, two s’s!)

 

Melissa: “I didn’t want to tell you before because I didn’t want you to feel like you HAD to marry me, but…we’re having a baby!”
Liam: “Good job, us!”

On that happy note, I sent Melissa back home and Liam off to work.

 

And not a moment too soon, as Liam finally got a call about a large house fire! Sims to save!! I put out all the blazes, busted into  the house to find the 4 sims it said were trapped…and found two. The other two were victims of the Basement Cat glitch, where they’re just.. in the ground? unclickable because you can’t see them. And therefore unsave-able. Poor Liam, nothing can come easy to him. I tried doing something I never do and switching to the affected household. I could fix one sim (by making him change clothes at the dresser), but the other trapped sim must have been someone not of that house (everyone else showed up) and so was anybody’s guess who. Turned out to be pointless as the emergency was gone when I reswitched back to the Jacobsens. Sad face. 2/30 saved in the past 10 sim days.

His next heroic action was to do the laundry at home without being asked.

Meanwhile, Carmen Sandiego Molly was, unsurprisingly, out on her case.

 

Sammy was still hanging around the house, but was not terribly excited to be awoken by Luna’s cries. Thankfully new auntie Melissa fed the baby (while daddy just grumbled about her, then went to drink coffee). When she still fussed after the bottle, Melissa had a moment where she reconsidered the whole having-one-of-her-own. (Too late! It’s coming for you. :P) A quick snuggle and Luna was fine though.

I was planning to have Molly & Sammy get married the following day, but Molly wished for a bachelorette party. I think it was  delaying tactic for the wedding, but I’ll humor her.

Preppin’ drinks for the party. Noon’s not too early to start boozin, right?

Pregnant Melissa whipped out her best Running Man moves. LOL In the second shot you can, I think, see everyone who was invited. And one who wasn’t. Liam’s in the background, trying to ignore the whole deal. Bonehilda – the twins’ parents had obtained Bonehilda shortly before they moved out. When she showed up in the list of possible invitees, I thought it would be amusing, so I added her. She arrived and started making our beds. Behind her in the green tunic is pregnant cousin Alice. She brought her brother Fergus with her (in the black tux) even though we had only invited females. In the very back in an elder though darned if I can remember who she is. She knows what’s up though.. these kids all went to dance, she beelined for the bar. In the green skirt is Darla, in the black dress is Tamsin – friends of the twins from school. The gal with shaved hair is Molly’s best friend, Karina. You can forget all of this. There will be no quiz.

“Did somebody say dancing?” The ahem entertainers showed up and boogied down in the dining room. I do not remember the second one’s name, but dude #1 is Jack Hammer, which made me chuckle. And then when he was done, he presented the bride-to-be with flowers. Molly, we’re not in Vegas.. this stuff won’t stay here. Move along.

Tamsin did a toast. “Molly & Sammy’s love story is one that really pulls at your heartstrings….like so. *punches hand through Molly’s chest to tug on strings of the heart*”

And then.. the nectar! Karina teased Molly for dodging it, and showed her how it’s done. Meanwhile Bonehilda tossed back a drink of her own and leaked all over my floor.

At this point it had been like 8 hours of party. I was wondering how long bachelorette parties last. Apparently forever?

And then cousin Alice went into labor and everyone lost their crap. After making a mental note to not invite that attention hog Alice to any future parties, Molly kicked everyone out thanked everyone for coming.

Not two hours later, Melissa goes into labor as well. At least she waited until after Molly’s party.

“I do not like this feeling in the stomach area. I’ve changed my mind.”

She and Liam head off to the hospital.

They’ll always remember the time they brought home twins to a household that already has an infant (and no parents that actually take care of that infant.) Ugh. These kids will be almost-triplets anyway. Yikes.

And to underscore my point about Luna’s folks not being around, when we got home there was a baby sitter putting her in bed. Sammy gets a pass as he doesn’t live in the house (yet), but dangit Molly you couldn’t watch her yourself for a couple hours while your brother & his wife brought home their first (and second.. grrr)? I don’t even remember seeing a “call the babysitter” popup. Anyway, moving on…

Twin #1 (in pink in the back) is baby girl Ember.

Twin #2 is baby boy Phoenix.

Fire names seemed only fitting for the children of two firefighters, who were conceived at the fire station itself.

We’ll call it there for now. Next time there will be birthdays (thank God), maybe a wedding (think Molly’s phone will ring?), hopefully more emergencies.

The one where I don’t decide anything

Last time the twins hit their teen years, went to Prom, and Basil finally managed to complete the SimBot opportunity that he’s been working on most of his life because I hate running around and collecting things because the final ingredient kept eluding him.

This time…

…this time apparently we find out that Firefighter is an excellent future career choice for Liam as he has taken to playing with the fireplace when I cancel out his workout interaction.

They all gathered out on the porch to birthday it up for the kids. They cheered on Liam (who wore an outfit I’d never seen before) first.

He wished to be allowed to workout again (gimme a tick to get you that job buddy and then your wish is granted), and got all ready to spin up into (young) adulthood.

Then it was Molly’s turn to be celebrated, blow out the candles, and sparklespin.

 

Neither one turned out funny-looking, and they both have traits that will lend themselves well to an Ambitions career (firefighter Liam, or Private Eye Molly). So I decided that we’d acquire mates and get the first kid out of each before deciding for sure. This way I get to play each a little longer. (Procrastination is something I’m good at, decisions are something I’m bad at. So putting off a decision is a finely honed skill by now.) And I told myself I had to go all in, so their LTW are the ones related to their career (rescue 30 sims, solve 35 cases.)

First things first, we get Liam that firefighter job. He heads into the station right away, and immediately goes for the workout stuff (as you can note by the fact that he has a sweatshirt on in the pic. LOL) He stopped after a bit so he could go see who his coworkers were. All the heart-eyes were had as soon as he spied this gal here – Melisa Blackwell. (An extra “s” will be added if she becomes part of the house one day.) So I left him chatting and joking and having a fine ole time with her.

Meanwhile, Molly’s first career wish was to conduct a stakeout. Looks like she’s getting an eyeful of something scandalous here. I’m also pretty sure that she needs a few more classes in obscuring yourself since her back is completely exposed to anyone behind her.

After getting that out of the way, she takes her first case. She snoops for clues along a sandy beach in heels like a total badass.

And then has to stakeout the beach to finish up the case. Looks like I could have killed to wishes with one stone. Ah well.. at least she’s wised up and has her back to a wall here.

Liam and Melisa were still chatting each other up when I headed back there. I made him remember there’s more to the firestation than just the hot coworker. We need our fire engine to move at more than a snail’s pace when we have to save those thirty sims after all. (And there was alarm maintenance and working out to do too, but all of these things make boring pics.)

 

Oh, yeah, people (and SimBots) still do things back at the house too. Honestly, these guys were mostly on free will at this point. I kept following the twins alternately. Only Kitty has a job, and it’s just 4 days a week, so she was good for right now.

 

Woot! First emergency! Uh.. I mean, oh no, an emergency, I hope everyone will be okay! Liam handles it like a boss, and I try not to pout that no sim lives were in danger and thus rescue-able.

After this, I had him try to hunt down the sim that the game randomly set as his girlfriend at prom so he could either keep on with her if she was pretty or break up with her for the gal at the firestation. However, I discovered that she had fallen victim to what I refer to as the Basement Cat glitch that seems to be nabbing people in my town left and right. Basically, the people appear to be IN the ground. Their thought bubbles float along at ground level, anything they’re carrying kind of skims along the ground all weird, and they’re not able to be interacted with unless it’s by free will because there’s nothing to click on. So. No breaking up yet.

Molly’s next case has her digging through the garbage, which is totally gross, but the girl’s determined to find a clue. And then I totally luck out because the next step means she needs to snoop inside. The house she’s at is the one where January (Liam’s-girlfriend-that-we’ve-never-actually-seen) lives. Apparently she shows up when she’s in her pajamas. She’s alright, but not as alright as Melisa.. hehe.. so as Molly’s finishing up, I send Liam over there. He breaks up with January, but it doesn’t seem to affect either of them too much. I imagine not as it’s been about 10 sim-days since the Prom that was the only time they were together. LOL

Liam heads back to the firestation even though it’s the middle of the night because it has TWO pieces of workout equipment because he’s just that dedicated. Also dedicated? Melisa Blackwell. He finds her right outside, avoiding going home, and they start chatting it up. She tosses in a flirt (which I miss) and they keep on chatting and joking.

“Say, did you know I was a firefighter?”

 

“Really??! *Squee* OMG! I think firemen are SO HOT.”
LOL This amuses me to no end. You work together. You should not be surprised he’s a fireman. You’re both in your gear. You’re both AT the stationhouse. *hehe*

At any rate, I happened to think to ask if she was single. No. No of course she wasn’t. She was MARRIED. Married to a dude named Ralph who was about to shrivel up into an elder in like three days. I did NOT want to let her go… but figured that I’d ultimately leave it up to her to decide. I did not do a save-just-in-case-I-don’t-get-the-result-I-want, then I had Liam “Ask her to leave Ralph”. Then I told myself that if she said no, I needed to move on. Seriously. Overly Attached Simgod. So I held my breath and crossed my fingers while the interaction played out and I waited for her answer.

Melisa: “You know, you’re right. I think I WILL leave him. You’ve listened, really listened, to me more in these past 3 days than he ever has in our whole relationship. He’s just an abusive, controlling, jerk and I’ve had it!”

(Well… so I embellished on her answer a little. LOL But Liam asked, she answered yes, and the second she did he rolled a wish to beat up Ralph. Who he had never met. ROFL So I can only imagine there must be a reason for some animosity.)

Okay, moving on from the bit of drama that Liam’s wading into with bagging his mate…I realized that Molly hadn’t even talked to hers yet since he aged up. So I left Liam spamming the romantic interactions to get the propose option to come up, and sent Molly off to visit Sammy.

Molly: “Uh, I’m in the middle of something here. This is case #8 and I’ll never make it to 35 if you interrupt me.”

Yes, well you’ll never make the cutest baby if I don’t interrupt you. So. To Sammy’s house we go.

He aged up well and certainly seemed happy to see her. She whispered something to him, and off they went on a trip to the pool.

I swung over to check on Liam & Melisa. The option to propose was STILL not there. I thought having them at the firehouse lot was maybe the trouble, so I tried having him “Go here with Melisa” to a spot at the park (where sims have proposed before). He was able to get a couple chats in before she ran back over to the firehouse. *sigh* He followed her back there. When he showed up, she left the lot to go home.

A quick scan back over and.. looks like Molly’s date is going alright. I missed whether the lullaby jingle played, so we’ll just be surprised.

I sent Liam to the Blackwell’s house after Melisa. She greeted him and invited him in. I set him to romancing while I peeked upstairs to see if there was twin beds or a double bed (NO REASON.. but it was a double. Sweet.) I panned back down to make him spam some more romance to get it to “extremely irresistible”,  and suddenly…

What the heck? RALPH?! Where even WERE you, dude? I looked in your bathroom (no shower), and in your bedroom and you were nowhere up there. HOW did you just come waltzing down the stairs? Still… *grabs popcorn*

Melisa then prepared to tear into Ralph. Having Liam by her side (OMG look at that smug smile! LOL) must have given her the strength to tell him she had had enough of his crap, and she wasn’t going to take it any more. They were THROUGH. And then Liam made sure he knew he best listen to the lady.

Then these two did a whole lot of this while Ralph – I kid you not – stood at the bottom of the stairs (blocking the only way to the bed, the jerk) and whipped out a guitar to play a sad song. Liam did  few more romancey moves before Melisa apparently decided she needed to be at work right now, zomg!!1! and left. It was like 3 a.m. Liam left Ralph playing his sad song and went home. Gotta be refreshed enough to chase Melisa fight fires again the next day.

That’s it for this time. Next time we find out if Molly’s knocked up, and if Liam ever manages to nail Melisa to one place long enough to propose.

Teen years, twin style

Last time, the twins  sailed through their carefree childhood days and, as you may have deduced by the random party twirler in the final pic, were gearing up to hit the teen years (days? Stage. The teen stage.)

 

Liam goes first, as always. A little sparkle, a jazzy little spin…

…an awkward growth spurt…

 

…and now he’s a teen ready to cheer on his twin as she has her own sparkly awkward phase.

 

Thankfully the awkward didn’t stick around too long. They both turn out to be decent-looking teens, making my eventual job of choosing between them about zero percent easier.

 

And why did they birthday alone? Well, Kitty was sleeping because skilling a whole town’s worth of toddlers takes a toll on a sim. And Basil finished an invention that he Could. Not. Wait. to try out. The time machine was finished, placed in an out-of-the-way corner of the third floor that no one ever visited and then he immediately rolled all sorts of wishes for it. I think this one must have been the past since when he visited the future he came out with new clothes.

Liam & Molly wait through this mob to enter the school (slowly.. one by one, through a single door…ARGH!) every morning.

 

After school, they make sure that their homework is done so they have time for more fun pursuits.

 

Molly, for whatever reason, still enjoys the sandbox. However, she also often opts to work on the computer, so I love her a little.

Liam still often wants to work out, which is what he’s gearing up to do now. Let’s go peek.

Oh dear. There’s Kitty tearing into Molly for… something? Maybe a couple minutes late from curfew, maybe something only simslogic understands. I didn’t know, and I don’t think Molly did either.

Liam: “You know, I, uh, don’t think I really need to work out right at this minute…”

Good, because I’ve decided your brave & athletic self will be a fireman, and you can just workout at the station when you’re a young adult —

Liam: “Wait, no more working out? This is meaner than Mom screaming at Molly for nothing.”

Well, it’s not no working out EVER. Just not until you can get promoted for it. It’s like I’m giving you a treat, really, see?

Liam: “You’re dead to me.”

Geez. Dramatic is NOT one of your traits, boy.

Liam: “Swoll 4 lyfe”

Meanwhile, Basil has been off on several random missions to find very exact items to build a mystery invention. We actually have a pink diamond now, but no heart-cut option yet, so the search for gems continues. I sent him out to shop on the off-chance we’d find what he’s looking for.

His expression tells me that we did not.

Back home to finish up, I believe, a miner (we had sold ours and I was going to have him use that to gem hunt rather than running all over town.)

Molly had been off on a hunt of her own. The kids got the prom pop-up and so I had to rush around trying to find them dates. Molly found this fellow – Sammy Worth – and while I was watching them be cute, Liam was off on his own. I remembered to check on him, only to find him flirting with Pia.

NO. No, Liam. She’s your cousin…type person. (Their folks are cousins, whatever that makes them. TOO CLOSE TO KISS at any rate.) I put the kibosh on that real quick (there are moments that I feel cheating is warranted LOL) and sent him home instead. To garden and NOT work out. So there.

While the kids were hunting, Basil was mining. He found a couple gems, but they didn’t appear to count towards my total for getting the heart cut (why, game, why must you hate me?) However, he did find an intriguing tunnel.

Basil: “Shining shaft in the ground? Seems legit.”

“I may have been a bit hasty choosing to jump down here…”

Meanwhile Molly got to stay out. She and Sammy went to the park, she asked him to the prom & he accepted, and she snuck in a first kiss. See, when you go for a sim who’s not related, look what nice things get to happen.

Basil finally emerged from the hole, singed and sans clothes, but with several interesting things in his inventory (of which I can recall not a one. Pretend they were interesting anyway.) He filled in the hole and headed off to other pursuits.

Kitty was busy tending the garden that they have planted off the kitchen entrance to the house.

Molly had gotten home from her date and went to work on fulfilling the wish to raise her charisma. Liam…what are you doing?

Liam: “Trying to wash dishes of course.”

But.. that spot’s taken. There are at least four other sinks in the house.

Liam: “I know. One is in the kitchen. Imma use this one though.”

I think you’re doing this on purpose.

Liam: “Yep. You know, I could always just go work out instead. I’m still dressed for it.”

UGH. No. Wash dishes in the kitchen, then go learn how to cook until you have to pass out.

Soon it was time for Prom. Molly was actually at work when it started, but managed to get there in time. As usual, the attire of the other students varied widely. Despite her not showing up with Sammy, they were there “together” and were going steady by the end of the dance. Liam ended up with a romantic interest of his own – January Brown – who then aged up before I could invite her over and see what she looked like. The twins won king & queen.

But the most exciting thing that happened during Prom actually happened at home. Basil had found all the items, received the life core, and been hard at work on the mystery invention. After hours of work, Eureka!

Basil: “Yes! *fist pump* Can’t wait to show the kids their new brother, Salvatore!”

Salvatore does a victory lap around the house, steals his sister’s bed, and heads off to dreamland with visions of delicious rocket fuel dancing in his head.

Good to see the “I’m a new parent” face hasn’t changed, Basil.

I think we’ll leave it there. Next time.. birthdays! Liam gets to workout again! Maybe there’s an heir decision! Woo!

 

Happy childhood? Nailed it.

Last time Basil & Kitty had twins and I exploded cute widdle baby & toddler spam all over the update. Not this time, I promise. This time they’re kids.

These are the only pictures I took during the twins’ toddler-to-child birthday apparently. One shot of Molly blowing out her candles and one shot of older-by-5-minutes-and-therefore-aged Liam cheering her on.

Here’s a closer look at them as big kids.

Playing tag in the backyard..

…swinging at the park…

…building sandcastles…

…digging in the costume chest.. Having a built-in playmate is awesome! (And having the perfect photo to bring out for their senior yearbook is also awesome.)

They do sometimes do separate activities. Liam is most often found working out if he gets a moment to himself.

Molly, meanwhile, lets her entrepreneurial side shine through and heads to the park with some baked goods. She was extra happy to see the pregnant lady.. eating for two means twice as many muffins, right?

Kitty was becoming one of the most loved caregivers in town – trusted by the adults for her reliability and beloved by the children because she would teach them things but also have fun. Story-telling was a favorite time.. Kitty did the voices and everything.

Basil, bless him, tried to do the story thing too. Somehow, his “story” about chess strategies was just not as spell-binding. Great at putting them to sleep though.

Mostly, their childhood was pretty happy. And swings.. swings are flipping AMAZING. Look at those faces.

“Hey Liam, why are we out here with you twirling that party twirler?”