Gen 4 Chapter 44: Cake!

It's been pretty busy, but I think we have a little break between birthdays! And, since I'm not teaching Snow anything because what's the point, that means free time for everyone!

Sometimes I think that I should cook more or something so that we have food in the house. But cooking is boring. And cake is practically healthy!

Cake for everyone!



BOB is more responsible than I am. He decided to cook breakfast! He made waffles and he didn't even burn down the house.

Come to think of it, I don't think Blu has cooked at all since he set fire to the kitchen that one time.

It's a wonder we ever eat around here!



After making food for the family, BOB shorted out.

We really should give him a break sometime. I'd send him on vacation, but then who would do all of the taking care of people around here?



Like this... poor Snow is so sad and needs something! Who's going to take care of her? BOB should be more responsible.



Fine. I've parented before, I can do it again! My kids are fantastic! It's not that hard!



But, that's enough of that. Back to sculpting!

I love the chainsaw! So zen!

Plus, it will come in handy when the kids are older and I need to threaten them.



Sebastian and Puzzle are going through that kind of thing with our niece. She's a teen now and is having all kinds of PDA with her boyfriend. I heard about it from one of the people at our gym...

My kids are not going to be allowed to cruise all over town with boys!



Anyway. While I was sculpting, BOB woke up and all was right with the world.

It's a good thing we have a BOB.



Bumble is very studious. I think it's good that he's a genius, so he can teach himself stuff.



I finished my sculpture so I decided to go watch Blu train. I'm a very supportive wife.

Plus, it's fun to look at Blu.

I even gave him some encouragement. Now that he's like middle aged or something, he'll have to work harder to keep up his lovely physique.

Not that I only love him for his body, but... well, it's a good body!



My sculpture is pretty good, too.

This is Lenny, the evil freezer bunny!

I really considered keeping it around because it's just so awesome, but since I have my goal of making money with my sculptures I had to sell it.

Goodbye Lenny!



Hmmm... speaking of goodbyes, I haven't seen Yeti since I sent her to go learn how to fish!

And that's been a few days...

Maybe I should send BOB to find her!



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A/N: So now I've caught up to where I've played. I haven't managed to get any game time in the last couple of weeks and I probably won't until next week! This week is particularly busy with the end of preschool for the year, many family events at elementary school, and the husband is going away for several days to his annual amateur radio convention... leaving me home with three kids! Plus, we have some Girl Scouts events and a new nephew to visit! I'm tired just thinking about it!

Outtakes!

Snow's elbows. That's just not right.


Of course, this is even worse! Ouch!


I finally got Yeti to come home after several days of fishing and hanging out at the waterfall. Apparently, she's internalized her mother's fear of water!

Gen 4 Chapter 43: Bumble almost learns stuff

Some people just don't know when to leave!

I mean, look at this! Snow's party has been over for days and they're still hanging around!

All passing out in the driveway and complaining that their hungry. Not to mention complaining about the newspapers on the ground.

Really. Like it's any of their business!




So I told them to go away and *poof*! Gone!

That's much better.



Now I can focus on my family.

Like Bumble. It's his birthday soon and I'm considering teaching him some stuff.



Yeti has been asking to learn how to fish lately so I sent her to the local waterfall!

There was no way that I was going with her, of course.

Water, you know. Can't trust it.

But Yeti is an independent girl and wasn't concerned at all!

I'm trying not to be overprotective.



Blu has been working hard at working out. He is now an athletic master!

And he looks so good doing it, too!

I love a tight man! (Clicking that link is totally worth it.)



Anyway, back to Bumble!

I decided to teach him to walk.

He's a genius, so it should be super easy. And quick!



And teaching him to walk went so well that I decided to teach him to talk, too!

Can you imagine? A toddler who can walk and speak? Just like real people?

I'm like a genius, too! And Bumble's totally a prodigy.



Except then I had to pee.

And by the time I got back from the bathroom, Bumble wasn't a toddler anymore!

How does that even happen? There wasn't any cake or party or anything?









They just grow up so fast. There's no point in teaching them things as a toddler if they're not even going to use it.

I don't think I'll bother teaching Snow anything.

I wonder where Snow is, anyway?

While I'm at it, I wonder where Yeti is?



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A/N: Ariel is one cat away from reaching her LTW. Blu has mastered athletics, which would count toward his LTW if he would actually change like I want him to. Yeti spent the whole weekend fishing, which I'm guessing is because of her Ark Builder LTW. Bumble learned how to walk and almost learned how to talk. It was a pretty productive couple of Sim days there! Bumble got the Vegetarian trait forced on him, which adds to his genius and athletic traits. That kid has good traits for being so neglected!

In game news, my game was less glitchy once I reset the lot but there's still a pretty bad lag going on. I don't know what that's about. I was going to try playing through Yeti's and Snow's next birthdays so that I could put up an heir poll pretty soon (especially since Ariel can finish her LTW any time now), but my game crashed out the day before Yeti's teen birthday so I didn't make it. Maybe next time.


Outtakes!

Proof that Ariel actually taught Bumble to walk! She wished to teach him all of his skills on his birthday, so they did marathon skilling. But didn't make it.


Invisible bike.


After Bumble aged up, I found Snow and BOB outside watching the sunset or something. I have no idea what they're doing out there, especially since BOB hates the outdoors!

Gen 4 Chapter 42: Party of glitch

Yeti is such an independent girl!

She took herself to school the other day. I don't know why she didn't ride the bus, but I guess she figured that she could get there under her own power.



And look how studious she is! While all of the other kids were headed in to the building, my girl sat down and did her homework. She must not have wanted to go to class until she had everything just perfect on her papers!



Sometimes, I wish all of the kids were that independent.



I mean, I know that they will be. They will eventually grow into bigger kids who do their own thing and leave me alone to sculpt. But right now they're just so time consuming!

I mean, there are always so many things to teach them and then they want to be fed and changed...

Of course, they're also super fun and I love them.

I just think that maybe kids should grow up as fast as cats do. And maybe they could be born knowing how to walk and talk. That would be handy!



Anyway.

Party time!

It's Snow's first birthday!

I was busy trying to get Bumble to calm down and shut up so BOB brought her to her cake.

Every family should have a BOB.



Blu even decided to attend this party. I guess because it's the last first birthday that we'll have around here for a long, long time.



Suddenly, I got the giggles! I have no idea why, but I could not stop laughing. BOB was not amused. Neither was Puzzle.

Such party poopers.



By the time I'd settled down, Snow was a toddler!

The first thing she did was pick her nose, of course.

What is it with toddlers and their noses?



Still, she's pretty cute. I think she has Mom's hair!



It was the weirdest birthday party ever, though. Puzzle and Nemo got all emotional about how big Yeti is getting. She announced that she wants to have a bunch of different animals when she grows up and I have no idea where that came from!

I mean, we love cats but why would she suddenly feel the need to collect all of the animals?!



I worry about Margo, though. She was surrounded by invisible plates again at this party and she didn't take it well.



I hope we're not giving her some kind of phobia! She always seems to run screaming from our house when she comes over!



BOB finally got fired for missing work. I felt kind of bad about that.

He was so depressed that I told him that he should find a way to cheer himself up.

I guess that meant hanging out with my brothers.

I hear that Nemo has a new girlfriend again. Shocking.



Sebastian looks very dapper in his tux, though.



Anyway, BOB decided that the best way to blow off some steam (so to speak) would be to hit on one of our guests!



And she totally went for it! No one could believe what was going on. Right out in front of my house! Sebastian was afraid to turn around, I think.



I can't imagine what the neighbors will think.

Of course, my friends and family found it pretty weird, too.

I guess we should just be happy for BOB?



Nemo was so exhausted and shocked that he passed out right there in the driveway.




So, yeah, another body in the yard. At least I wasn't using my chainsaw before this one dropped!

And we're now the home of robot groping and driveway bodies.

There are worse things to be known for!

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A/N: BOB was stressed so I clicked on his icon and he decided that "risky woohoo" was the best way to reduce stress. Then I watched in horror as he tried to do just that with my very own simself! And she was all for it! Luckily, she was too tired and decided to go home before they actually followed all the way through with that.

Yeti rolled the Ark Builder LTW for some reason. I have no idea where it came from since her current traits are slob, overemotional, and eccentric. Maybe eccentric? Anyway, she went all the way to school and then skipped out on it to do her homework!

The party was full of glitchiness. I'm not actually sure what's going on with my game (I'm hoping it was just a transient issue but I haven't played again to be sure), but everyone kept getting stuck. Ariel got stuck laughing at the birthday until I resent her. Yeti got stuck in the bushes outside the house and just stood there peeing until I reset her. Snow got frozen when she aged up. None of the guests went home, I think they're actually still there since shortly after this (and, luckily, a save) the whole thing froze up and crashed. After that, I gave up for the day and I haven't had a chance to play since!


Outtakes!

No one is happy about going to school.


Bonehilda is admiring her "muscles", which just amuses me.


Here's poor Yeti, stuck in the bushes. It took me awhile to find her, she's so well camouflaged!


Is it just me, or does Snow actually look like an old man?


Creepy neighbor boy spent hours just looking in the window.


I have no idea what Blu said to her here, but Ariel was not amused.