Growing Sims

I realised, after referring readers of the last entry to the Kent family, that I hadn't actually updated for a while.  That's because I haven't actually done much with any of them.

Robert went to uni and was in the same dorm as Teri.  So here are a couple of pics:

Teri was going out with Johnny Random who died in a freak fire.  No other boyfriends on the horizon and Robert doesn't appear to have a girlfriend either.  More on the family when I've actually played more.  I tend to get bored playing the Sims at university (which is why I make most of them drop out).

A few Sim days passed.

Ian grew into a teen.

Tash had a visit one night from Steve.

She was very happy to see him but didn't invite him inside.

The next day she invited him over.

He moved back home.

The whole family had a jamming session.

Dunno why it's so dark - maybe I forgot to put a light back (I was changing them).

Teri moved to Sim State uni.

Would she see boyfriend Johnny Random there?

Robert meanwhile was happier in new clothes his mum bought him.  But he didn't wear them long cos he moved to uni as well (and I forgot to take a pic).  (I now have 5 students at uni.)

And what of Diane, who Steve abandoned to go back home?

She'd become pregnant, and gave birth to a boy.  She called it Jon but was more interested in her cat.

He quickly grew to toddlerhood.

He looks cute.

It's been a while since I played these three families: Steve, Rob and Mike and their partners and kids.  Where to start?

You may remember that Mike had an affair with Candida Random and she had his daughter - Michaela.  Mike already had a baby daughter, Misha, with his partner Cara.  So it was time to get them grown up a bit. 

When Misha wasn't just sitting complaining, she was into the toilet bowl.  Then she discovered half-brother, Robert's toys.

Both of them grew up on the same day.

She's not very pretty considering her mother is - got her father's looks.  Robert had a bit of a makeover.

Now he needs some decent clothes.  Meanwhile Mike and Cara still weren't getting on too well - one of them caught the other cheating but it was so long ago I can't remember who did what.  It must have been Mike caught out by Cara.  But they're slowly getting friendly again.

At Steve's his kids were growing too.

Ian grew to school age and Teri grew to a teen.

Teri had her first kiss with Johnny Random.

Then they got in the tub together.

But what of Teri and Ian's parents?

The tub had seen another couple in there...

Tash had got very friendly with some local...

and Steve had been visiting a neighbour, Diane...

Eventually he moved in with her.

Steve and the lads went on an outing to a restaurant.  First they played upstairs (but no-one was around to tip them, damn it).

After a while they went downstairs and ate.

"Where the fuck is Mike?"     "I'll order the lobster for everyone thanks."

                                      "I haven't shagged her yet."

                                                        "What did I say?"

Two of the three guys had now found a job in the music career.  Rob was still stuck in his job as cartoon voice.

After dinner it was a group visit to the toilet.

They all went back to Steve's place (which was , by then, Diane's place).  But Steve was so tired he went to bed and there was nothing for the others to do except play with Diane's cats, so they went home.  (Diane doesn't have a TV or any musical instruments.)

Meanwhile, over at Rob's - Sinead, after saying for so long that she didn't want kids, had a girl and called her Roberta (nice to have an obvious indication as to who the father is).  Sinead took the baby out with her when she went star-gazing.

But she left the baby behind when she went back inside to go to bed... and it started to snow...

The baby has super powers - it doesn't get cold. 

By the time Sinead remembered, the baby had actually fallen asleep (I don't think you can see the zzzz's).

"Where's my baby?"

Finally she found it...

just in time for her birthday

Family time in the bathroom...

I forgot, before leaving Pleasantview to visit the Veronaville residents, to report that Rob and Sinead finally got hitched.

Sinead obviously accepted Rob's proposal.  They had a small ceremony out the back.

Only three people turned up for the party afterwards but Rob and Steve enjoyed getting high together.

The party was after not during because Rob has lovers who might have got jealous and there might have been a bit of slapping going on. 

Rob finally got promoted past the embarrassing commercial actor level.

Yay, he didn't have to wear that ridiculous getup any longer.

Last time we saw the family, Rob had visited his son, Robert, at Cara and Mike's place.

Cara was pregnant with Mike's child.

Steve invited his friends, Mike and Rob, over to play music in his basement. His daughter, Teri, joined in on the piano.

A visiting dog (or wolf?) howled along with her.

An odd thing happened at Mike's place. He was about to put young Robert on the potty but had to go to work. Instead of putting Robert down, he took him with him to work! 

The poor child was away from home the whole day and so was very hungry, dirty and tired by the time Mike returned from work. That was very odd. That same evening Robert grew into a child.

Mike and Cara moved out of that awful house and moved into a new house across the road, next door to Steve's. It was fully furnished. Cara was so tired she fell asleep at the toilet. 

But she had the baby the next day or so while everyone was out. She had a girl and called it Misha. 

Mike and Cara had a house party and Rob got to know his son better.

Rob and Sinead followed suit, demolishing the small house they were in and building a bigger house. Now everyone had room for kids and music and parties.

So Tash had her baby, but waited until Teri had reached toddlerhood to try for another.

Here she is feeding baby Teri in the kitchen.

She became pregnant first try. Meanwhile both Steve and Tash between them taught Teri how to walk and talk and be potty trained. So much easier when the child knows to go to the potty herself.

I just have to remember to get someone to empty it!

Teri was a happy child and it’s now rather touching to see her run out of the house to welcome her father when he gets home from work.

(Oops - looks like they need a gardener.)

Yes she’s already grown into school-age and she’s quite an attractive girl when compared to all the other children which have sprung from my creations. These poor quality pics don’t do her justice.

Steve hasn’t seen much of his friends lately (they’re all too busy screwing) but he did invite Rob around to advise him on his fatherly duties… (hahaha – so say I). Rob is rather too enamoured of his friend Steve as well – their hug is just a little too familiar. Oops – better cool that one down.

So Tash was heavily pregnant and just about to get some food for Steve who had just woken up when she had child number two – a boy, Ian. They’re all very happy. Awww.

What I love about this game is the way the characters tend to take on a life of their own - they'll prefer to do something you hadn't planned and before you know it you let them take on a whole new direction (such as Nigel Random ending up with definite gay tendencies).

So the four "Kents" - Rob, Mike, Cara and Sinead were living in one house - Rob and Cara as a couple and Mike and Sinead as a couple.  But it was soon evident that each of them also lusted after the other partner - Sinead and Rob, and Mike and Cara.  I thought they seemed better suited anyway.  I just had to be careful that they weren't caught out.  So while Mike and Cara cuddled downstairs:

Rob and Sinead cuddled upstairs:

No-one cottoned on to each other for a couple of days.  But, the inevitable happened.  Rob and Cara, the "official" couple, were about to 'woohoo' when Mike, Cara's new love, caught them at it.  He was not happy!  Hypocrite!

So, while Mike was at work one day, Rob and Sinead thought it better to move out and live next door in the empty house.

I can't recall if Rob knew at the time, but by then Cara was pregnant with his child.

So there was Cara, pregnant and loveless, because Mike was still angry with her as well as Rob and he didn't even know about Sinead and Rob being together.  It took a few days for Mike to calm down - enough to start accepting Cara's affections again.

Cara had the baby - a boy, who she called Robert (probably so she'd remember who the father was).

A little unrelated break here as I tell you that Giles Huntingdon from the flash house up the road, took to visiting the girls quite often (while Sinead was still living there and before the pregnancy).  He once stayed the whole night, jamming with them on the balcony.  I wonder what his wife would have thought had she known.

Anyway, back to the abandoned baby Robert...

Mike reluctantly helped out with the baby but his anger was receding.  Robert quickly grew into a toddler.

He has his father's angular features. 

Cara was out working and Mike found himself babysitting when he was at home.

Pretty soon they would be accepting each other as father/son.  They even played music together...

 sort of.

Rob still hadn't visited his son, perhaps afraid of Mike's wrath.  His friend, Steve, the doting dad of Teri, must have given him a talking to because he eventually visited and met his son for the first time.

He even put the child to bed.

A bond had formed...

We'll see where all this goes.  Very interesting situation.

Will Cara get pregant to Mike?

Will Sinead get pregnant to Rob?

Will they all keep seeing each other?

I'm as curious as anyone...

After Steve and Tash moved out the guys were left in the house with no girlfriends and Sinead was left alone in the house next door.  I thought she might be a good match for Rob but he didn’t seem that interested.  There was a little interest from Mike but he was difficult to woo as Sinead found out after inviting him over twice.  I needed an extra woman to lure at least one of the guys, so I created Cara who moved in with Sinead.

 

My plan was that Mike would have a blonde girlfriend, and Rob was to go with Sinead, but these Sims really do have minds of their own.  Their preferences didn’t indicate any obstacle to attraction (no red-hair turn-off for example and a preference for makeup which both had).

 

Well, Mike seemed immediately attracted to Cara so I let them go with it and persevered with Mike and Sinead.  In no time at all Cara had moved in with the guys and “woohooed” with Rob.

 

Sinead invited Mike over again but he refused to move in and didn’t even like smooching although he seemed to respond to charms and admiration and romantic hugs.  Grouchy bugger.  I didn’t think I’d made him grouchy but he obviously is.  He stormed off after a while.  Ho hum.

 

Meanwhile over at Steve and Tash’s…  They had a housewarming party and the guys jammed together in the basement.  A day or so later Steve and Tash decided to get married and invited people over for their wedding.  There were lots of people standing around in the tiny backyard toasting each other but doing little else.  I don’t think anyone actually ate any food – what a waste.  During the wedding I noticed that a blonde townie had the hots for Mike and wondered if I should try and get them together but found out later he doesn’t even know her enough to call her up.

 

I tried one more time, getting Mike to invite Sinead over and she stayed the night. The next day he asked her to move in and she agreed.  So the household was now a foursome, leaving the house next door empty.   Interestingly, Rob now found Sinead attractive enough to flirt with.  Fickle buggers!

 

The very latest news on the Kent front:  Tash is pregnant.

I hurriedly introduced some students at Sim State University in my last post, but as more has happened with these three guys I thought their own post would be better.

For want of a better name I'll call them the Kent family - although they're not a family.  It's three guys - Steve, Mike and Rob.  Previously I just posted pics of two of them.  Anyway their first pic:

Rob, Mike, Steve

They moved out of the dorm and into a house:

Steve cooking.

Mike writing his term paper.

Rob playing guitar.

It took a while to get them through uni and Rob and Steve graduated successfully, but Mike got a D and had to repeat his very last semester.  I found that strange because each time he went to do his assignment, a message said he was wasting his time because his class meter was full.  Perhaps they lied.  The others moved out and Mike was on his own for a short while.  It didn't take long to graduate so they all moved to Pleasantville where Mike rented a house and invited them to live there.  The house wasn't as big as the one they had at uni, but it was next door to a couple of "hot chicks" who wasted no time coming over to greet them.

Sinead and Tash

Steve was particularly struck with Tash and they clicked immediately.  In less than 24 hours they'd chatted, had a date together and Tash invited Steve over to stay the night.  Next thing she's moving in with the three guys after a particularly successful romantic visit:

Steve and Tash have now got engaged and moved out into a flash townhouse across the road!  Talk about fast.  The basement of the house has plenty of room for the musical instruments the three guys play so they can jam together anytime.