We have been slowly furnishing our shell of a house slowly, but surely. Although the arrival of a newborn might throw a spanner in the works.
Ellie: I am so done with being pregnant.
Well, good news! You're not going to be pregnant much longer!
I somehow forgot to take a picture when the actual baby came. They all look pretty much the same, anyway. Welcome, baby Hydrogen!
Raaj: Yeah, I'm not sure what I'm more worried about--Purnima getting arrested one day, or not getting arrested one day.
Raaj! Your wife is literally having a baby right now.
Congratulations to Prunita for her accomplishment. It will be overshadowed by the new baby.
Jerrilyn's also here. I'm not sure why she's walking like that.
I think it's cute that they're friends. :)
I was so pleased to see Purnima waiting so patiently for Ellie to finish feeding Hydrogen. Such a good big sister! Maybe she and Hydrogen will be good friends.
Or not.
Purnima: We're not going to be important to the legacy, anymore!
Aw... you really weren't important to the legacy to begin with. But that's okay! You can be a fun side character, like Mulan from my first attempt at this legacy. And when you grow up, you get to be free!
In my Sims 3 run, Ellie had married one of the World Adventures locals from China. When we took another vacation to visit his brother, we found out he suddenly had a daughter. Named Mulan. She was interesting.
Prunita and Jerrilyn doing homework together. In a place that actually makes sense. Not out in the snow! It's a miracle.
Ludmilla from Curse of Strahd called us to tell us she was shutting off our power.
Ma'am, it's freezing out. We have a baby!
Ludmilla: My husband wants a blood slushie and I told him I would make him one!
The power came back on almost immediately after. I'd told Ellie to make a salad since we couldn't use the stove, and it was back before she'd even finished chopping tomatoes.
Ellie: Yeah, I told her she could just go down to the yoga class at the park if she wanted frozen blood.
This is what the house is like every night, now. One of the parents trying to sleep while the other deals with a screaming baby. One or both of the girls comeing over to complain about a monster under the bed. Such is life.
And it's New Year's... we will be achieving none of these traditions, I'm pretty sure.
Father Winter asked to come vist, just in time to see Purnima messing up the room.
Father Winter: Normally I would be upset at a child being naughty, but this is the saddest children's room I've seen in my life.
Decorations aren't a priority, unfortunately.
He cried over the broken dollhouse. Baby.
With a bit more money from Raaj's job, I can set up a little nursery. At least the screaming can be confined to its own room.
I also set up desks for Prunita and Purnima to do their homework. Will they actually use them? No.
Harvey invited Ellie out to the club, and I figured she deserved some time away from the crying baby. By which I mean I wanted some time away from the crying baby. This lot is Caldera Camp by seizeco on the gallery.
... Raaj. You're married to her.
I even let Ellie buy some fish and chips--usually she only has vegetarian food because Raaj does most of the cooking. She keeps stabbing the bar with her fork and magically picking up her food.
Ellie: Actually, it's explained scientifically through 'refraction.' The same as when you thought I missed putting a ring on Raaj's finger.
I thought refraction happened in water.
Ellie: Happens when light passes through any mediums of different density. Light has to pass through the screen to get to your eye. Simple science. Refraction.
Ah. I'm learning.
We also go up to the active volcano while we're here. Might as well.
Harvey invites us to come home with him, so we take advantage of the warming weather to actually get some fishing done, finally.
Appreciation shot of the first neighborhood I made for this save. The closest house on the right I downloaded as a shell, but everything else I built entirely myself. I still really like most of them.
Came back home to find the kids watching... The Great Gatsby. Or something.
Why is the wall stinky here?
Ellie: Oh, I tossed one of Hydrogen's dirty diapers so hard it phased halfway through the wall.
Wha-- how?
Ellie: Refraction.
I was too startled to get a picture fast enough, but this gnome LIGHTNINGED Ellie!
Also I'm hoping the nightlight in the back there is going to actually stop the monster under the bed thing.
... couple things weird, here. One. Geoffrey is an adult inviting this child he barely knows to a club. Two. It's not his club. It's Ellie's club. Ellie, the step-mother of said child.
Hydrogen aged up, so now I might actually take pictures of him.
He's wiggly. :)
I didn't take pictures of the busywork with the time travel thing, because it's frankly boring and I stopped paying attention to the actual storyline. But I enjoyed Emit cleaning up the house when we invited him over to show him some time shards.
One of the next tasks is to repair something, so it's actually pretty convenient that the angry gnomes broke the TV. At least, I assume it was the gnomes.
We also sold the gnomes for almost enough money to cover our bills. We were, like, four simoleons short, which was easy enough to cover now that Ellie can go out fishing whenever.
Might as well publish the books I had her write, too. Since Ellie has so many skills she needs to do, I decided it would be easier to have her be a self-employed writer rather than do the whole rabbit hole business every day.
Ooh, nice!
Hydrogen's first bath! The game didn't say his hygiene was low, but look at that stink cloud!
While I've been managing the adults and having them take care of Hydrogen, the children have been occupying themselves. It's past midnight on a school night. Did you at least do your homework?
Purnima: No.
Prunita, at this point, did her homework autonomously, but they should still both be in bed by now!
A very important milestone, indeed.
Ellie's gotten to the third tier of angling ace since spring started, and we need to catch fish with bait. And she needs to harvest unknown plants still for the outdoor enthusiast aspiration, or whatever they're called now.
All the plants I could find were 'out of season,' so I sent her to a house that looked like it had a garden so we could steal borrow some bait.
Almost had a heart attack when the camera zoomed in on Death. But we just happened to come here just as a cow was dying.
Death: Iᴛ's ᴀ ʟɪᴠɪɴɢ.
Unfortunately, it was mostly giant vegetables growing on this lot, which apparently can't be used for bait. And did not count for the 'harvest unidentified plants' thing, either.
So Ellie went to search and fish around the park, instead.
She stopped to talk to Isabeau, who is related to the cult that lives just around the corner from our place! Small world.
Ellie: I'm so glad the sun is coming back, and I'm not going to freeze to death outside anymore.
Prunita's here, also. I don't remember inviting her here. Go home.
Found this fish I didn't know existed while fishing!
And we got to the fourth and last tier of the Angling Ace thing! We might actually get to finally cross something off our list of goals. Hooray!
I kept the gummie fish and the skeleton fish, our prized fish, and sold the rest. Also sold the oversized pumpkins and such, which netted us... quite a lot of money. I think we might go on one of our required vacations to Granite Falls, soon, since we also need to figure out bug-collecting and all that.