Chapter 2: A Growing FamilyIn the previous chapter my founder Celia Blue and her husband Pelham Whitmore-Blue had their first child, a girl called Alena. Sadly, she was not blue-skinned and therefore cannot be heir.
I don't think Pinstar has any rules about when you can grow up your sims. My own rule is to wait until their actual birthday to age them up. That means I let nature take its course with babies. So one evening Alena just jumped out of her crib on her own wearing flipflops with her socks
She was starving and generally miserable, too, so she headed straight for the fridge for a glass of milk.
Alena takes after her father - at this stage I don't think I see any features she has inherited from Celia. Anyway, she is really cute in her glasses, and I think I let her keep them. Her first trait is Slob and aspiration Artistic Prodigy. (I'll roll all the traits and aspirations with
Pinstar's Random Trait Generator. )
Soon after Alena grew up, the second baby announced her arrival.
This is Anaya. Sadly she is not blue...
... so a third child was needed.
Being a stay at home mother with a child, a baby and another one on the way can be very trying. Celia does not have time for her friends or for the garden - her days are filled with taking care of her children...
... and cleaning and repairing things around the house. They tried to hire a maid to help but she is useless. She takes out the trash and mops, but never washes the dishes or cleans the toilet. Mostly she just stands idly in one place and charges for several hours.
Celia's lifeline during these stressful times is comedy. When Alena is at school and Anaya is sleeping, their mother writes jokes and composes comedy routines and laughs heartily at them herself.
First day of school was pretty exhausting for Alena.
In general, I think life for the children in Sims 4 is pretty demanding. It seems much more difficult to reach A at school than before and with the added task of striving for the child aspiration, there is not much time left for fun and play.
Luckily Alena knows how to combine work and play into one nice chess session.
Pelham is slowly progressing on the painter career. This school boy uniform is the career outfit for Hungry Artist (if I remember right).
Anaya grew up. Her child aspiration is Social Butterfly. She inherited the Slob trait from her father and we now have three slobs in the house, yay! But I wonder where did her red hair come from...
Celia goes into labour and makes those funny faces,
And TA-DAA! A blueboo is born! Yahoo!
It's a boy. His name is Azure Blue. And he is the first heir of the Blue Legacy.
