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Millie: It’s a boy! He screams rather a lot. I hope we will become great friends and that some girl moves in to a house you can move in to as well someday.
We welcome Jonas Mitchell to the family. He is the first male heir and I am interested in finding out if having a female or male controlled sim will be easier in this challenge.
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Quinn: Hey Randall, have you seen Millie?
Randall: Have I seen Millie? I just got home from working! Since you are not, you should be able to keep track of your own wife.
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Quinn: Hey babe, where have you been?
Millie: Look! We have a son!
Quinn: You went to the hospital without me?!
Millie: I couldn’t find you, and you would have been creeped out by the ghosts anyways. Look at your screaming son, I am sure he wants to hang out with you for a bit while I go work on my app. Have fun!
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Quinn was not overly enthusiastic about caring for the baby. He would walk away from Jonas as soon as he was quiet or asleep, but somehow the cot magically appeared wherever he went. He would leave it downstairs to go and sleep in the bedroom, and then, in the middle of the night, he would wake up to a screaming baby! He cursed the day the watcher came to his home.
But, he still had some decent parenting skills and kept Jonas fed and changed while Millie worked on her programming skill, she is not level 6 (2 points).
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To make Quinn a bit happier Millie would invite her mother over. Aria was happy to take care of her grandchild, and freed up a lot of Quinn’s time. Time he used for swimming in the pool and watching comedy tv.
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Now, don’t get the idea that Millie didn’t take care of her baby. She did, and she soon became good friends with Jonas (3 points).
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Millie: Randall, I know we didn’t get have the best start to our relationship, but I really need your help. The bills arrived today and they are 600 simoleons more than we have on hand. That means that I really need you to keep working even if you are an elder now.
Randall: Don’t worry Millie, I love my job and they will have to force me out.
Millie: I also would love if you could have a chat with your brother and tell him all about how to be a more involved dad. He’s told me that you helped raise him when he was little, and I know he looks up to you. Do you think you can have a talk with him?
Randall: I will try, you know one of the reasons I was so surprised about your hasty marriage was that I didn’t feel like Quinn was ready for a family. But now he is a dad, so he’s got to step up. Maybe if I hint about him starting a job as well?
Millie: I would love that, thank you Randall.
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Jonas aged up into a precious little angelic toddler. He’s got his mother’s fair skin and his father’s dark eyes.
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He always cries after using the potty the poor dear.
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Millie had hoped that Quinn would be more involved with him as he grew up, so that she might have had a chance to start her career early, but Quinn seems to be less interested in him now. So, she has decided to put her career on hold until he is a child. That will also make it easier to have him level up his skills which will be good for the points.
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Millie maxed the cooking skill (5 points) and has now started the journey to becoming a gourmet cook.
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Quinn is happy to hang out with Jonas when he’s eating, so at least he helps him improve his speech. However, as soon as he has other needs he’s been absent.
Quinn: …and the banana said to the doctor “I’m not peeling very well”. Isn’t that funny!
Jonas: Daddy, why you so strange?
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Randall: What are you doing there squirt?
Jonas: Ran Ran, come play with me! I am Llama man!
Randall: Hello Llama man, I am officer Big Bear, time to interrogate the suspect!
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After Randall had a talk with Quinn he tried harder. Honestly, I was surprised that he was so uninterested in his child, and that Jonas was equally as uninterested in him. All other kids so far have run after their dads all the time, maybe since he’s home all the time he is not as interesting? Randall on the other hand, is Jonas first call when he wants to watch someone or have someone to play with.
Randall: See, that’s nice, isn’t it?
Quinn: Yes, it’s nice. Hey kiddo, wanna watch some TV?
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On second thought, maybe introducing Quinn and Jonas to each other wasn’t such a great idea, they now spend a lot of time in front of the TV. However, sometimes Quinn does make the effort of helping Jonas to skill a bit. The dollhouse is a second favourite to the TV.
Jonas: I am Llama man!
Quinn: I am the amazing space explorer Quinn McQuinnston.
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Jonas room has been decorated with some photographs of his toys. I have been having a lot of fun with taking photo’s this generation as it provides a nice income when the bills are due. It’s a shame it requires so much micro managing though!
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In-between skilling, helping Jonas and making money, Millie has been working on getting to know her uncles better. She is now friends with both, but so far hasn’t managed to become good friends. Anton is still an Adult and was very taken with Jonas. Elmer is a loner, and always seems to avoid any area of the house where anyone else is when he is visiting. I think Millie will have to invite him somewhere quiet to become his good friend.
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Aria has become an elder, and she mostly hangs out with Quinn and Jonas in front of the TV when she visits. At least Jonas has started to turn on the child channel now that he’s a more involved parent.
I miss the dressing up function of sims 3, I hope the new toddler pack will bring some nice features to the game, if not a dressing up chest so at least some more funky clothes.
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Even after maxing the potty skill (7 points) Jonas was still sad he had to go on the potty – so Millie gave him a bath to cheer him up.
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We are also working on having him max two more skills and reaching level 3 in the other two, I have come to accept that I probably won’t be able to get a top-notch toddler on this lifespan, but I don’t want my sims to miss out on the faster skilling being a happy toddler brings.
Jonas has almost 3 days left (depending on when in the day I age him up) so we might just be able to do it. His skill gain has been slow since Millie has to spend at least a couple of hours of productive time each day painting to pay the bills.
