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« Reply #15 on: December 16, 2012, 08:29:15 AM »
Thank you both.  Having this to work on really helps with the real life stuff.  When it's hard, it's so easy to while away that time playing Sims and hardly notice the time passing.  :)

Okay, Ausette, you get the Least Reliable Commenter award.  The award is anonymity.   ;)  Thank you for the compliment on Genesis' outfits.  I try to make her outfits (and her in general) look a little like art.  With all the sims in this family, I take a lot of time to make sure their outfits are just right.  That can be just as much fun as playing if you're patient with it.

ombradellarosa (whose name is not umbrelladellarosa, no matter how many times I read that first before getting it right), thanks!  I agree, Genesis makes cute kids.  I'm becoming more and more a fan of the non-generic sims.  The bin sims have definitely not been given a fair shake!  And I'm glad you got the joke!   ;D

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« Reply #16 on: December 16, 2012, 08:39:02 AM »
You are so right about the bin sims! A lot of times I take a toddler, child or teen and age them up. Don't forget the elders though I find gorgeous sims this way. ;)



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« Reply #17 on: December 16, 2012, 10:55:33 AM »
I do a lot of gender switching, too, with the bin sims.  You definitely get some different looks that way that I know I couldn't have created myself.

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« Reply #18 on: December 18, 2012, 08:47:21 PM »
Welcome back!  I apologize if this entry and future ones get a little scattered.  I like to host my own pictures on Photobucket, but I also try to stick to the rules about photos per entry.  As the house fills up, there are more good photos and less in the way of segues between them.



This is one of the things I love most about a large family project like this: kids just doing kid things.  Sure, I make sure they do their homework and that they don't starve or smell and occasionally fulfill a wish or two, but I like it best when I leave them to have fun on their own.  At home right now we have Toni, Baz and Claude.



Where else would one play the drums but next to a sleeping baby?  It's only logical!

The house now has a completely enclosed half bath, garage and living room, but everybody still sleeps outside.  I'm picky that way with my decorating.



Clumsy, goofy Baz wanted to join an after school activity.  As you know, for kids it's either scouts or ballet.  Poor Baz, I picked ballet.  Too bad he never comes home in a tutu.



Toni starts her first fire.  Having a teen around is a huge help.  Genesis can leave the lot once Toni comes home from school.  Toni does have a job at the cemetery, though, so Genesis' outings are limited.



And Riverview is changing.  More and more of the residents are elderly.  Genesis has already lost several daddies off her list, but there seem to still be enough to go around.  No penalty for not collecting them all.



Claude celebrates his toddler birthday.  He's Excitable and Insane, but I think I'm going to have to add drama queen to that list.  All toddlers cry for no reason occasionally.  Claude does it all the time.  Every trip to the potty requires two or three commands before it happens.  He's the most high maintenance toddler I've ever had.



But he looks oh so contented once he gets there.



Toni scores herself a boyfriend.  So much for being the shrinking wallflower.  Toni nabs townie Rick Stokes.  She goes to a second prom and has an even better time.  I'm beginning to think I got her all wrong.



Basil ages to teen and earns himself Couch Potato.  With that trait, he's not wishing to get a job, so he's home all the time, freeing up both Genesis and Toni.



He's not the most involved big brother, but at least he's holding the baby.  This is how they spend a lot of time, actually.



And this is all the current babysitter is good for.



The Sims have been saving their simoleons forever, but they were finally able to afford the Tofunda Wagon I'm so fond of.  Now that they have a proper car, Basil got the first driving lesson.  Strangely enough, he was a natural.  He wasn't stressed out at all and even Genesis didn't take a very large hit.



Toni was another story.  Rock bottom bright red by the time they were through.  Yet Genesis did manage to teach them both in the same day.  Toni doesn't have a whole lot of time left before becoming an adult.  We had to hurry.



Daddy #4 is Trigger Broke.  Trig was by far the hardest to woo yet.  He came over to the house, but then went right back home.  Genesis followed him, but then he went to work.  She finally cornered him at about three in the morning.  This is one of the most annoying parts of this game for me.  Both headed for the shower at the same time, they get in each other's way, they stop, they move again, get in each other's way again, both stop and two hours later finally hit the shower.  Meanwhile, Susie Broke is dancing around the trailer getting all sorts of things done.  Why can't the game give that kind of priority to the active sims?!



Then it's time for Claude's birthday.  Sometimes I think the game knows who you're trying to create.  I barely had to alter this outfit at all, it suits Claude so well.  He added Daredevil to his traits, but he's really still a good kid.  For now.



A shot of Genesis' maternity wear this time around.



Automatic reactions get on my nerves.  So when I knew Genesis would go into labor in the middle of the night, I bought her a temporary bed in the newly enclosed living room.  Sure enough, she labored and ran to the hospital without waking up the kids.



You can't see her in there, but welcome to Daphne Broke Sims.  She's Brave and a Slob.

To recap, we've got Toni (Larry Cooper) and Baz (Jon Lessen) as teens, Claude (Dallas Shallow) as a child and Daphne (Trigger Broke) as a baby.  Who's next?  You'll just have to watch and see.  Thanks for reading!



Gremlin is Quiet.  He complains constantly about Genesis' music.  So how does it happen he sleeps through her drum set?  Cats!

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« Reply #19 on: December 19, 2012, 04:57:39 AM »
Congrats on nooboo nr four! Claude is a nice looking kid. ;D

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« Reply #20 on: December 19, 2012, 01:38:22 PM »
He is indeed. I like his traits too, can't wait to see what he does with them.
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« Reply #21 on: December 23, 2012, 05:12:15 PM »
Thank you for the comments!  Claude turned out . . . differently than I expected.  Well, but you'll see here in a moment.



Almost immediately after Daphne's birth, Toni moved out.  I originally thought she'd go for science, but when it wasn't available and I was too lazy to send her to the science lab, I hit up medical instead.  She's one of those doctors who turns heads but is so independently minded she's the chasing the men instead.  Not that she'd make a super great girlfriend anyway.  She's kind of weird.

I went with "naughty librarian" to inspire her look.

Antonia Cooper Sims moves out, giving me one point.  Her final traits are: Animal Lover, Loner, Star Quality, Angler and Genius.



Though still more of the house is complete, including a full bath, everyone still sleeps outside.  Genesis is relieved to have her bed to herself again (for a little while.)

With a maximum of four kids at home, I'm not making this as challenging as it could be, but it's more enjoyable that way.  Plus, it leaves the door open for multiples.



Baz and Gremlin discover a new interaction of which I was never aware: Sit On.  Very cute.



Will the real Gremlin Sims please stand up?  Any guesses?

Gremlin is on the left.  He's wearing a collar, but his eyes are green, whereas the stray's are orange.

Gremlin is getting old.  At the time of this writing, his bar is full and Grim could come for him anytime.



The family bought a chemistry set and the kids aren't the only ones trying it out.  Not surprisingly, Genesis really rocks this look.



Claude has a birthday.  I expected something a little different, but he's all right looking in a drab sort of way.  He's now Insane, Excitable, a Daredevil and a Social Butterfly.



Also a kitty cat.



In one of those weird but cool differences the game throws in, Claude doesn't seem to be very smart.  Sure, Toni was a Genius, but Baz isn't and still has no trouble completing his homework quickly.  Claude takes forever.  Claude takes forever to do anything.  I never get quite as much accomplished with him in any given time period as I'd like.



Daphne has a birthday.  You can't see it in the picture, but her hair is blonde with dark roots.  Unlike Toni's, which came from her father, I can't say where Daphne's hair comes from.  Not from Trigger.

Eating dollies come from Genesis.



So I messed up and cheated just a little bit.  Guilty: I've never made a ghost before.  When somebody died and Genesis got Oh My Ghost, I picked the first man who was on the father list but had died.  That man was Robert Newbie.

Guilty: I actually knew what would happen.  Genesis did this once and my game froze and I lost a couple days of playing, including Robert's resurrection.  (He came back as a ghost that time, too.)  So I knew he'd move in and we'd have to ask him to move out.  That's against the rules, but oh, well.  This is not a challenge where you automatically lose if you break a rule.

Genesis doesn't look very pleased with her new roommate, does she?



We turned that around.

I chose Robert because the original father next in line declined the invitation.  We were on a rather strict time table and I didn't want to wait five hours until that man could come over.  Technically, Robert wasn't next, but he was there and that was good enough.  He was originally #10, so we would have gotten to him anyway.



Before Baby E arrives, Daphne gets another birthday.  Babies and cakes are old news.  This is really a shot of the new dining area.   ;)



Now you can see that hair.  I like Daphne.  She doesn't look grumpy all the time.  Okay, she looks grumpy here, but that's unusual.  I added Athletic to Slob and Brave.



Showtime for Baby E and look who gets to drive to the hospital this time!  I think it's the first time she's driven the car.  Usually the boys have it.  And it's not a motorcycle, definitely more comfortable for the mother in labor.



So no ghosts ever also means no ghost babies, but now that's changed, too.  Meet Edsel Robert Sims.  He's Perceptive and Easily Impressed.

Given how much noise Robert makes on his post-birth visit, I'm not looking forward to raising a ghost.  This first may be my last.

So that's it for now.  Edsel puts us at five kids.
Antonia - Larry Cooper
Basil - Jon Lessen
Claude - Dallas Shallow
Daphne - Trigger Broke
Edsel - Robert Newbie

Thanks for reading!



Someone please tell me why Genesis can't walk around the bushes to go from one door to another without needing a babysitter, but the BABY gets to go wherever she wants.  So dumb.



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« Reply #22 on: December 23, 2012, 05:17:05 PM »
I actually love how Claude turned out. All of the kids are so cute and unique.

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« Reply #23 on: December 24, 2012, 07:37:17 PM »
Yay! Found it again! (I thought the 'crib trouble' had something to do with Edsel!)
I'll have to stop lurking now and comment properly.
This is a great story and I love your writing style a lot. :)

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« Reply #24 on: December 25, 2012, 05:57:49 AM »
Congrats with your ghost nooboo and good luck with the ghostly sounds. :P
I don't know why the game thing she is leaving the lot, try and move the mailbox.

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« Reply #25 on: December 25, 2012, 09:23:22 AM »
Thanks everyone for your comments!

I've had problems with the mailbox when I placed it on the edge of the lot before, but this time it's four or five tiles in.  The problem is that the walkway I've created at the front of the lot is just for show.  When the car is parked in the driveway, sims have to walk around it to the town sidewalk.  Sometimes that's the shortest route, but when there's a little one at home and that person is the only responsible party, the game stops them.  The baby can walk wherever it wants to, though.  Very silly.  I think EA should have built like a five tile extension around every lot so this didn't happen.  After all, it's not like the adult is really leaving the lot.  Their destination is their own bathroom, or mailbox, or whatever.  It's just silly. ;)

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« Reply #26 on: December 28, 2012, 05:47:44 PM »
And we're back for Daddy # 6.  At home are Baz, Claude, Daphne and Edsel.



You may have read about my problems with Edsel elsewhere on the forum.  This was the first warning sign.  Genesis has had four other children, none of whom the cat paid the slightest bit of attention as infants, but Edsel, well, Gremlin really took quite an interest in him.



And this was the biggest problem.  Edsel would snap to the floor whenever anyone tried to put him in a crib.  And everyone was clamoring to look at him.  Restarting my gameplay session was enough to cure the crib ills, but I finally had to lock Edsel in the garage to keep sims not looking after him away.

Disclaimer: not the first time I've locked a sim child in the garage.  In fact, I'm pretty sure I locked Toni in the garage so Genesis could woohoo privately.  That wasn't the first time, either.



With four at home, that means it's time for one to go.  Baz ages up with this look.  Basil Jon Sims wound up being a Couch Potato, Clumsy, a Slob, Good and a Computer Whiz.  I put him in the science career before he left home.



Then I cheated.  I couldn't take the hollow crying.  I couldn't stand the thought of weeks of hollow sound effects.  I really couldn't stand everyone stopping to stare at their own brother.  Ghosts are cool and all, but with that many annoying side effects, I went into CAS and made Edsel human a polar bear.

And who doesn't love a cute little polar human!



A picture in his everyday outfit.  He's quite cute!



He can't walk through walls like his father, unless you count the walls of a dollhouse.



The Sims have finally garnered enough simoleons for the kids to get their own bedrooms.  All they do is sleep there, so they're quite small.  Each sleeps three kids, but until we save up some more dough, Genesis bunks with Daphne.

Don't feel bad for either one.  That's the best energy bed in the house!



We knew it was coming, but that doesn't make it easier.  After 18 weeks, Grim came for Gremlin.



Which was really confusing because at the same time this cat was playing on the lawn.  I really couldn't understand who was dying at first and thought I'd done something terribly wrong and a tot had electrocuted himself or something.



Grim hugging the departing kitty does make things easier.



Crouching tiger, hidden Gremlin.



Sim cats are easy enough, and I like the occasional addition to the family's income their hunting forays bring, so Genesis adopted a new cat, the only one with Hunter for a trait.  This is Minerva.



Toni and Baz were so good to me, I guess to make up for these two.  Daphne and Claude are peas in a pod when it comes to academic.  Two not very smart peas in a pod.



Daphne and the Amazing Invisible Picture TV.



Poor Daphne (grown up some), not only is the homework hard, but Minerva uses it for a pillow.



Her solution?  Eat her dinner at the other end of the cat.

I can't make this stuff up.



The elusive babydaddy that ducked out of Edsel's conception was Aiden Jones, so I slotted him in for baby F instead.  He once again proved very hard to track down.  Ultimately, Genesis had to pay him a visit at home.  Thankfully, Hannah's been gone for awhile now.



Edsel grows up and looks very cool.  He's basically Genesis with different coloring.  He's Shy, Easily Impressed and Perceptive.



Finally it's time for Baby F.  It's my pleasure to introduce Fiona Jones Sims.  Fiona is Evil and a Slob.

Yeah, another Slob.  Basil, Daphne and Fiona.  I'm so tired of puddles on the floor, I could cry.  But that would make more puddles.

Aiden doesn't show up for Fiona's birth because, as it turns out, we got to him just in time.  Grim came for him before Fiona's birth.

So that's it for now.  We're up to Baby F with two kids moved out and four at home.  I have a four day weekend, so maybe I'll get Baby G out before the new year!



Nothing to see here, nothing awkward at all.

But how cool is it that pottying toddlers don't count as an invasion of privacy?!

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« Reply #27 on: December 28, 2012, 06:44:32 PM »
Aw, yes... the wailing sound of ghost babies is quite nerve-wrecking. Playing on mute is the only option to see it through.
I'm so glad you turned him into a regular little boy. He is very cute. Love that pursed little pout of his. :)

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« Reply #28 on: December 29, 2012, 08:21:07 AM »
I can't play with ghosts lol, the sounds drive me nuts.
I'm glad he is human, he is very cute. Congrats on the new nooboo. :)

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« Reply #29 on: January 05, 2013, 10:16:02 AM »
Thank you, SimBlip and Louise, for your comments. :)

On to Baby G!

I put a date in the main subject line now, so if you lose track of where we are, hopefully that will help you decide if you're up to date without having to open the topic up.

At home right now are Claude, Daphne, Edsel and Fiona.

Claude moved out.  I guess I didn't take pictures of this.  He's pretty cool-looking.  I'll try and remember to throw a CAS picture of him in next time.  He wound up with Commitment Issues, Daredevil, Excitable, Insane and Social Butterfly for traits.



This makes Daphne the oldest at home, which might not seem so great.  Daphne is not a good influence.



Things like this happen on Daphne's watch.



Fiona survives her infancy, though, and now it's easy to see she is the first of Genesis' children NOT to inherit her eyes.  Fiona gets her eyes from her father, Aiden Jones.



My complaints about Daphne are actually very few.  I just like poking fun at her.  She's definitely a character.  She went to prom and, like her sister Toni before her, finds a boyfriend there.

The boys can't seem to meet anyone, but the girls have no problems with this.



This is Daphne's boyfriend, Andrew Haley, post makeover by Me.



Daphne is a little confused by it all, all she did was go to a dance and have a marvelous time and now she has hearts for this boy.  Ah, young love.



Andrew is not the only man in Daphne's life, however.  (Yeah, this segment is pretty much The Daphne Show.)  She randomly finds a lamp in her inventory.  I thought to give it to Genesis, but then Daphne starting rolling wishes to make wishes, so I gave it back.  The first three out of the gate were happiness, peace and fortune.

Which means no more rock collecting for this family.  They're set through Baby Z now.



It also means I was able to finish the house.  Stairs are too much trouble, so in large families, my homes are always single-story.



Edsel grows into a teen and is now Shy, Easily Impressed, Perceptive and has No Sense of Humor.  He looks like someone.  As a boy, he resembled Haley Joel Osment.  As a teen, he looks like another young actor from something I've seen, but I can't put my finger on it.



Edsel and Daphne actually compliment one another very well and together they make life pretty easy for Me and Genesis both.  They even get along.



Most of the time.



Now it's time for Daddy #7.  I did a clean out of The List and removed a bunch of deceased and disappeared fellows until I got to the next living one: Dimitri Ivanov.  He has the distinction of being the first father to have the privilege of woohooing with Genesis in her bed.



Did I pick that maternity wear?  I don't think so, but it's just right for Genesis so she gets to keep it.



A great mother/daughter smile picture at a quick birthday before the new baby arrives.



Fiona adds Diva to Genius and Slob.

I try to use the kids' toddler hair as a guide to curly or straight.  Toni and Daphne had straight hair as toddlers.  Baz and Claude had curly hair.  Fiona also has curly hair.  Since this isn't genetic (should be!) I try to pretend it is.  I imagine Genesis' hair to be curly.



Did I mention she was Evil?

I really wanted to show you her pink boots!



And then Baby G arrives!  Welcome to Gilbert Dimitri Sims!  Gil is Insane and a Light Sleeper.

That's it for now.  I'll probably be a little less attentive about playing these guys while the Baby Boomer challenge is in progress.  I can't wait to start, but it will definitely take time away from this family for awhile, as well as motivation to play this type of family.  But we'll be back sooner or later.  Thanks for reading!



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