See? He eats food. He's special. Are you special like Wayne? Really?
The blonde daughter, (yeah, a sim who is not Yesenia... what's with that? is that even allowed?), has got us the Quaint My Cottage writing desk.
It could go in the inspiration room upstairs, but I think it fits here nicely too.
Raising the toddlers proved somewhat of a challenge. Both of them are Clingy! I usually go with angelic, but clingy says it gives a boost when they're being directly taught. We've got 4 adults (although that's always debatable) to raise them, so I was giving it a go. If I fell way short of Top Notch, then I'd learn something. But from another save and another toddler, it seemed like the clinginess was very much worth it for the skilling boost.
This room was not ideal. The reading [*insert kiddo's name] to sleep often glitched out. Too small? Not enough pathing options? Getting this screenshot only happened after removing other chairs that seemed to confuse the parents. But even after this, wonderful, singular moment of reading, it was still unreliable. I felt Wayne and Aili were losing valuable Imagination. The brief issue with toddlers having things get stuck in their hands is solved, but it did get me to use high chairs to feed them. High chairs were (probably still are) placed in the passage outside. You'd do it too! Maybe not. But if you did I'd not judge. So, we have two families, really. The Wildinghams and the Goths. But, unless I can be asked to actually change the name of a sim, this is going to be a Goth house. And we've made peace with that. We're fine.
On a slight digression, the Flint Problem was solved. Baby Ariel seems a wasted sim that just sits in one's "households" and never ages. From what I've been reading about hidden traits, she has one, just for her. But if you cake her up to YA, no worries. So off stage, she moved in for a day, acquainted herself with a red-haired Flint, and moved out.
That happy group of Pictures is because I thought the weather machine sitting outside ruined the view, and we have unused space in the roof. No, there's no door or stairs. The only way there is to teleport.
The wormhole generator lives there too. Pity the unlucky alien who decides to escape their homeworld, and travels through this wormhole. (Because they'll be stuck.) (Obviously.) I should put a desk with a guest book for them to sign before they turn around and go home.
House Goth:
Then, Enele, Sawyer, Kait in the library that you tire of seeing, but are too polite to say anything about! Thank you! Don't mention it. (Really don't, I might be fragile.) I think I took this screenshot to replace the earlier one -- after all, we only need one to see the nice desk. But as I forgot that plan, you have both! Double. This is great. It's like the other time. Which was also great. Very, very... great.
Moving on.
My rule is still that alien abductions are Great and must be Documented. That's Kait being floated up to the heavens. As I write this, my brain cog wonders -- also wanders -- whether a baby by alien abduction of an Sulani elemental -- like Enele -- would still pass on the Sulani Mana trait? My gut feel is that it will; that you
could get a 100% alien born with that trait.
Final day of toddler skilling.
I think having to split attention between two Noo Boos slowed them down, and had actually resigned myself to Happy Toddlers. When the "1 day left" mark was reached, all skills were level 4, but it really seemed like reaching Top Notch was a long shot, but the family would obviously still try super hard to make it happen.
Trying Super Hard is recommended, because Wayne, on the cusp of exhaustion, finally learned how to think. And then he went to bed, alone, because now there was no reason to even try failing "read to sleep", and he aged up without cake.
But! I'm getting ahead of myself.
At just the right time of day, weather permitting, three pedestals catch the sun in a most disarming way. The size and shape and window spacing is different to the similar galleries in my Sapphire Shores house, but these have I dunno… antechambers? Is that right? There's still pet food hiding, just out of view there. Oh grief, I need to fix the mirrors and walls. I apologize. But behold, mistakes.
And the sunset, when looking at the sun, looks like this.
Somehow I don't think I've had a sunset picture yet, or am I only noticing them now because they got prettier since the Island Living release?
And here is Wayne aging up to a Child. Not a nooboo, just a boo. Just a fright. But a Top Notch fright.
Again, like with his mum, the brows don't look too severe at the child stage. They might look quite angular when he grows up. We'll see. Aili sleeps peacefully in the background because she too is Top Notch, and didn't cut it quite so fine as Wayne.
We were baking that cake for Wayne, but... yeah. Sawyer's mixology continues. She's level 7 or 8 when I saved, so Snaggle Fluster here we come. I like the movement in that picture. Basically I'm including this because the door is open. It's the little things.
A fierce look from Wayne as his Beloved gets the birthday cake he didn't. I don't think the hair is helping him look genteel.
And that's the future of the house. Those weird kids. On the left, outgoing Wayne: a Father Winter's Baby. On the right, bookworm Aili: a descendent of The Elementals. I'm just going with the first random trait. If anything bad comes up, well, it's either too bad, or I'll re-trait them as young adults.
