Brief update on (nearly) everyone

Dustin’s family

Skip Junior’s kids grew up.  Storm first:

He looked fine as a little boy but now it’s obvious he’s inherited his father’s nose.

Dawn was next:

Her nose looks ok – inherited from her mother.  Their mother, Moonrise, meanwhile, had grown into an elder.  Skip jnr’s not there yet.  The eldest, Penny, headed off to uni.

Belle had another baby boy and called it Dusky.  Her husband, Ocean, wants 6 kids.  I realised this too late – could’ve got the cheesecake out.  Next pregnancy I will (and she is).

Beau’s family

Parker’s baby son, Louis, grew to a toddler.

Parker’s mother, Veronica, was met at the front of the house by the Grim Reaper one night after work.

She was 72.  Her partner, Ethan is in his late 60s and forgets to feed himself, preferring to raid the bar instead.  It won’t be long before he carks it.

Chip’s family

Stone Broke and Megan McTavish married privately with his mother looking on (in her pyjamas).

In the background, next door, is the original Broke house, now inhabited by Moonrise’s twin brother, Starlight, and his family.

Megan’s got a bit of a chin thing happening.

Megan, quite frankly, did not like the family home – way too small and plain – so they moved out and into a larger house nearer the sea.  Sorry, forgot to take pics – next update will show the new residence.

Nancy’s family

Finally, Joe Thayer’s wife, Amanda had a baby – a girl they called Anna.  Joe and Amanda lived next door to Joe’s half-brother, Cedar Greenwood.  Cedar and wife just had a second daughter and for some reason, the baby shows up in the apartment next door.  Joe and Amanda keep wanting to pick it up.  I moved the baby so that Joe could and he went to feed it with unfortunate results.

The baby, of course, had disappeared but that didn’t stop Joe acting as if it hadn’t.  He then dutifully threw the bottle away in the rubbish bin.

Weird glitch.

It’s a bit of a pain that you get glitches from the apartment next door like the baby above (which you can’t see of course).  Sims keep showing up even though they’ve moved out.  In one of my apartments with stairs, everyone got stuck on the stairwell and no-one could go up or down.  I solved that one by moving out the Sims who were affected.  Fun.

I only played 2 Sim days of the Brokes.  I’ll try to update after a longer period so something more happens.

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.

More Greenwoods

Belle gave birth finally.  She’d hoped to have a girl and call her Angel after her mother, Angela.  But no…

A boy

But wait – another baby was on the way – twins!

Another boy

And she hadn’t eaten any cheesecake.  No need – there were twins on both sides of the family.  So what to name them?

Belle chose Brandon as the nearest to her grandmother’s name, Brandi.  Ocean continued the Greenwood tradition of naming after something from nature and chose Seal (which lives in the ocean, naturally).  Belle wasn’t too impressed.