The end of generation 2

Nancy Thayer, née Brannon, daughter of Brandi Broke, died age 71 (I think – I neglected to note it down).

Her surviving son, Joe, married his room-mate, Amanda, soon after.

They married privately in the apartment.

Stone returns home

Stone finished at uni (or rather, dropped out) and returned to his widowed mum back home.

He invited round his girlfriend he’d met at uni.

Another generation of Brokes may not be far away.

Brittany is (only just) close to becoming an elder.

Birth and death

Veronica had finally begun to see other men.

She found love with Ethan somebody, a townie.

Veronica invited him to move in.  He did, but he’s unemployed and only brought 4,000 simoleons with him.  He did, however, bring a lot of friends so it’s now possible again for Veronica to be promoted.  However, she is now 70 and may not have the time left.

Meanwhile she became a grandmother for the second time.  Soleil gave birth to a boy and called him Louis.

Veronica looks on at her new grandson

Melisande, also asleep, had grown to school age.

Alas, Veronica’s brother, Parker’s uncle Cornelius, collapsed and died.

The Grim Reaper shook his head at the futility of it all.  Cornelius was 64.

Unfortunately Cornelius also took a few friendships with him so it will be some time before Parker and Soleil can get promotions.

Peace and happiness?

Skip junior’s twins seemed to get on well together.

And for that matter so did Penny and her little sister.

Penny even read to Dawn while she was asleep.

All these interactions are without any direction from me.

Belle’s twins also seemed to get on.  They randomly hugged each other.

Nanny problems continued.  Both twins were over-tired but the nanny didn’t put them to bed.  Nannies are a complete pain in the arse.

The twins grew up finally.

Brandon and Seal

But then they had a big fight in the bathroom…

Dunno what brought that on.

Nothing to tell with regard to the parents.  No-one’s had a promotion or affair or anything.

The delights of parenthood

Belle’s twins were often tired and hungry.

The nanny, as usual, was absolutely useless.  While toddlers are sitting hungry in dirty nappies, the nanny decides to have a bath. 

Ocean wants six kids.  So Belle is finally pregnant again just as the twins are about to start school.

Over at Skip junior’s, his eldest daughter, Penny was not doing her homework.   I couldn’t find her damned homework so got her to study cleaning or something instead.  But then all three kids got taken away.  I hadn’t saved, so tried again.  Just before Penny was taken away I spotted where she put her homework.  There were only two books and I got all three kids to share the homework and she did extra study with cleaning or cooking.   But Penny still ended up with a D.  However, it was enough to get her to teenhood.  She made it and the other two were ok with B+ and A.  I forgot to take a pic of Penny as a teen.

Sleepy Melisande

Some annoyances at Parker’s house.  With three adults to look after the toddler, you’d think Melisande would get enough attention. 

However, just as I direct one adult to attend to her, one of the other adults decide to do something with her or, worse, some visiting idiot picks her up and stands in a corner for ages.

So Melisande found herself on her own when it was time to sleep.  She tried the old dog basket.

She also tried the dog kennel.

But she didn’t get much sleep.  Parker came to the rescue after work and put her back in her cot.  Soleil is now heavily pregnant and sleeping a lot herself.

Ghosts prevent people sleeping as well.

Parker’s mother still lives alone.  She’s a flamenco master.

Chip dies

The end of the line had come for Chip Broke.

He was a judge and would have been promoted the next day but he died, age 73.

Brittany and Buck mourned for his loss.

Stone was still at university and didn’t really register his father’s death.

So Brandi and Skip Broke’s three sons are no more.

Stone was having a hard time trying to woo a student in the dorm.  They were getting on well and then she had to go and flirt with the annoying cow.  It’s taking forever for Stone to want to flirt with her again.  Grrr.

Buck is about to go to uni, so I had Stone drop out.   He’d only just completed one semester and it was getting boring.

Toddler time

Parker’s daughter, Melisande, became a toddler

Nothing much else happening in that household.  I think, however, that Soleil may be pregnant again.