The MacAvoy ISBI - Generation 5.3!

[tigeranne]

Last time, Sadie and Carter made another baby. It turned out to be their third son, Daniel. Stephen was a nerd, and Sean started showing interest in mechanics. Indiana died :( and the hole he left behind was plugged with a kitten named Bailey. Marshall was the fluffiest cat of all times. Harriet was beautiful, and won the maid's heart and eternal faithfulness. Sean grew up surprisingly well, only to throw a lot of tantrums. Both of the older boys got to see the scary side of Mrs. Swiller. Liranda came by to perform Wishmaster by Nightwish, in a very, uh... special version. Stephen was miserable. Sadie got herself knocked up again. Daniel grew up to a toddler, and didn't look like his older "twin" brothers.

This entry contains mentions of emotional abuse, and song-lyrics by Ed Kowalczyk.




Sadie: This is going to be my last baby, because four is enough. I don't care if it's going to be a girl or a boy, but I hope it's a girl! :)


Stephen: But where did you get the grow-a-baby kit? Do they have dragon eggs there, too?

Sadie: We don't have room for a dragon. Plus, it could grow up to look like Mrs. Swiller.

Sean: I don't think we should have a dragon, Mom.


Both of the boys skipped school, and Stephen was in the green for once. Sadie pounced on the chance to teach him homework, and get Mrs. Dragon off everyone's backs.


Hooray! Bailey finally grew up! He was a kitten 5ever. I was really happy to see how much he looks like good old Gordon, and his predecessor Rodney.


Yesss!


Emmy, please leave that desk for him to do more homework on.


Stephen: This is one of those important events in my life, that Mrs. Faulkner* keeps talking about! :D

*Mrs. Swiller isn't the only teacher at the school. They have a nice one, too.


Meanwhile, Sean was entertaining himself with a book. Such good kids!


After having broken his brain, learning to study, Stephen asked his Mom to play a game of catch with him. You know, so he could get a broken face to go with it.


Danny: I exist. =UwU=

I gave him the same hair as Ethan. It seemed fitting for an ISBI kiddo.


Stephen: Moooom! What's the point?


Sadie: Sorry. Dunno what came over me! xD

Not your kids, Sadie. I get that you have one single lonely nice-point, and that you subjected your own twin sister to facial missiles, but at that point you were the same size and strenght. Do not do it to your own defenseless children.

Sorry about everyone's favourite sexist maid in the back.


Reading the book got Sean happy enough that he could learn some homework, too.


Stephen continued his promising shows of nerdery, and played chess.


Meanwhile, Charlie was apparently running away from home. Can't say I blame him.


Sadie, stop it!


Okay, that's better.

Sadie: Ooops, I've got butter on my fingers! >:)

Sean: It's not funny! D:


The kids are pretty good at earning skill points.


Right. Cat pictures needed. :D (This is Emmy and Harriet.)


Come 7pm, both the older boys sat down to do homework. Stephen finished his.


Danny actually reminds me of Ethan, a bit. I think maybe it's the colouring. Ethan's got green eyes, too.


Sean: I'm sooooo booooooooored! I'm going to be that kid in this generation!


Danny: No, that's gonna be meee! D':

Poor Danny hadn't learned any skills at this point, and his birthday was nearing.


Final pop of the 4th and final pregnancy of the generation.


Sean: We're going to be like Nikki and Donna! :(

Don't give in, sprout. There's hope for all of you. At least nobody has it in for each other yet.


Sadie: So according to the family history, Lonzo may have buried a huge stash of loot under the house. I wonder how we can get a digger in there, without the goths noticing...

Stephen: Give it up, Mom. It's not yours anyway.

Sean: Such a family! Very exasperation! Much desperate!


Bailey is a floor-pee'er. :(


Sean: I'm gonna be a city planner when I grow up. Then I'm gonna build a city and run away to it!

Danny: TAKE ME WITH YOU!


Sadie: Time you learned something, then. PS: Your Dad is very hot in just his boxers.

Danny: That's cuz his boxers' on fire. :(


Danny more or less refused to walk, and kept crawling instead. His progress bar didn't really go up at all, and then he got tired and had to be put to bed.


It's time for a comercial break cat-break. :D


Harriet looks like she's going to drop-tackle Ellie. :)


Here are the guests arriving for Stephen's party.


Lora seized the last chance to read the most popular childrens' classic of all times to him.


Sadie's not so smart, poor girl. The exit to the patio is in the living-room, right next to the kitchen. This is the route Sadie took:

First, enter the garage from the kitchen, then exit the garage door, on the opposite side of the house from the patio.


Walk from the garage door to the front door. Enter the house again.


Cross the living-room, and exit through the patio door, while carrying a slab of gravity-defying meat.


Sadie only had a want for a party, not for a good party, so I didn't bother. She's also been neglecting Daniel. :(


Yessh! He rolled Knowledge! But he seems to have inherited Brice's turn-ons.


Not too bad. Mrs. Swiller didn't ruin his childhood entirely.


Stephen seems to take after his great-uncle Simon in fashion taste.

I wonder why there is meat in vegetable wraps, anyway. Maybe they're not meant to be a vegetarian meal after all. Like, they're wraps that have meat and a slew of different vegetables?


He didn't even get to enjoy his "party" much, because homework called. At least he does it, nowadays.


Then he came back out to have another plate of mystery-wraps.

Stephen: It would have been a much better party if we'd had ice-cream.


I doubt it.


Stephen wasn't the only one to have a birthday that night. His youngest sibling was having a very literal one.


Aaaand it's a girl. :) Please, welcome Elena MacAvoy to the family. I was going to name her Tarja, but Maikana called and said that this is a name that belongs to a future Nightinwolf child.


Carter & Lora: It's a baby!?

Why does Lora have the "I just had a baby" sign over her head?


Stephen: Wow, it's girl. Sean said they didn't exist!


Danny was subjected to one of the longest potty-training sessions in the history of Sims 2. Without smart-milk, I think it took several real-life minutes.


While he was in Platinum from learning to pee in the right pot, Sadie tryed to squeeze some more walk-training into his overloaded brain.


This time he was a lot less reluctant to actually walk vertically, but he got tired right before the bar filled up.


Stephen took up the tradition of force-feeding babies who actually need a new diaper. He's not a clone of Carter after all. His face has a very different shape.


Poor Sean, he is that kid.


Hey, what's this then?

Sean: If I take a dip in the pool, I'll both have fun and wash some of the dirt off!


Sean: GEROOOONIIIMOOOOOO..... Oww.


I'm not sure what it was Emmy was really shredding, but it looks like she pretended it was Sadie.


Yes, I know it's not easy to be Sean. Sigh!


Oh no. It HAD to happen. Of course I adopted not one but two agressive cats.


And the other one was Ellie. No surprise.


*sigh*


Danny's training wasn't completed, but I figured it might be a good idea to grow him up while he was still in good aspiration. The hit he would take from growing up badly would probably have been more than the points he'd scored from learning to walk. He might not even have had the want. There was no point in waiting.


Yay!


I'm not really sure who he looks like. It seems as if he's got Sadie's eye-shape and general features, but Carter's facial structure. We'll see when he becomes a teen.


Bailey: I just know I'm gonna get the blame for this. :(


With all the birthing out of the way, I figured I should have Sadie and Carter do some more dates, so they could keep their aspiration high, and Sadie could go on a green-bender.


Danny realised he wasn't really wanted around at the moment, so he started scoring Heir-points instead. I like this kid.


He'll have to share the twins' old room with Elena.


Everyone like elixir-faces, right?


Sadie's pretty fierce. I wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of her.


What?


Nooooo! Emmyyyyyy!!! D:


Sean: Do you like Elena more because she's girl?

Sadie: Of course not. Just because she's going to be a lot more mature for her age than you guys, and is going to get fantastic grades at school, and I can dress her up in pretty clothes and do her hair, it doesn't mean that I'll play favourites! What on Earth gave you that idea?

Sean: It's just... you know. You kept all the rooms all girly, except the one Wesley used to have, for when you had a daughter.

Sadie: Nonsense, son. You boys will benefit from having grown up in a balanced atmosphere, in touch with your feminine sides. Look, I let you wear blue shirts, okay? And this wall here is blue!


Sean: In my new city, everything will be blue. Even dresses and lipstick!


Sean: Look! I built this! Mooom? Look what I built!


Daniel: You should have put more red in it.


Daniel: Remember when we were the cute little babies, Bailey? :(

Bailey: *ninja-cat*


Daniel: I'm going to be a magician when I grow up. I've practiced a card-trick! Wanna see?

Sean: What trick is that?


Daniel: It's called "52 Pick-Up." Dad says it's named after a car.

Sean: That's not a trick! Stop disturbing me when I'm building the City of Azul!


Daniel: I know another trick! Watch this!


Sean: I don't want to see your childish "tricks," I said! You're disturbing my important work!


Daniel: Mom? Sean? Watch this!

Sadie: You go, Danny!

Sean: BOOOOOOOOOO! >:(


Daniel: Owww! My foot!


Daniel: Ooouuff! I'm... okay. Just got... the air... knocked out of me... is all.


Daniel: Taa... daaa?


Sean: Boo, that sucked! Stop being such a show-off, you little rugrat!

Sadie: Yeah, I don't think you have a future as an Olympic champion of gymnastics, exactly.

Feel the love, you guys!


The date that morning got cut short by Carter's carpool, so he delivered the flowers when he got home. How sweet, he must have bought them on the way, huh?


He admired them for a second, before picking them back up.


Then he put them down again.


Carter: Such lovely flowers for a lovely lady! <3

Rinse and repeat. He did it at least four times, before heading inside.


Stephan Gothier came by with some groceries. But... Who's that kid in the back? Raely... Narrator? Is that one of yours?


Yes. He's T'ana's neighbour from Victorian London. What's he doing here?

I don't know. He must be time-travelling.


Sean: I'm glad we're such a big, loving family and all. But Mom, next time you go to the baby-store, can't you pick up some building-kits for houses for the model railway upstairs instead? I'm getting too old for the blocks.

Stephen: Sean... It's time you actually read that pink book on the top shelf.


Green light for aging up Elena. :) If only her grandmother would put her down.


Lora: Look, Elena. This is where your Mommy works. She builds robots that will help us zap the evil hipsters to smallfries! :D


Lora: And now it's time you learned what the floor is. Sorry, munchkin, this is for your own good.


It's time to see what the girl looks like. :)


Sadie: You're going to be the cutest of allll my kids. :D Ssssh, don't tell the boys.


Stephen: Mom, maybe you should look where you're tossing her?

(Strangely enough, I'm listning to I Alone by Live, and that line about cradle the baby in space played as I typed Stephen's comment. Yeah, Eddie's lyrics are a bit... cryptic at times.)


Confetti cloud, please stop censoring the children, kthnx.


Confetti Cloud: Okay. *drops Elena*


Weeeelll, she looks like... I dunno?


I don't know whose nose that is, TBH, but she's pretty darn adorable?

Can I have her??1++1!?

What? But she's just a baby yet, Rae... Narrator. You're going to have to wait until she grows up. And technically, she's still in the race for Heir.

Yeah, but if she's not going to he Heir, and is only going to die sad and depressed, can I have her instead?

In time, yes, probably. (And now Lightning Crashes is playing. The one about generations replacing each other... and a placenta.)


Sadie: Nobody can tell that I'm 40 years old and have 4 children. :D

Nobody can tell that your great-grandmother is 150 and has 4 great-great-grandchildren.


Daniel: I'll show that stupid Sean that I can build better cities than him!


I tried the "Aamiley" hair on Elena, but it gave her a 6-head.


Carter: AND YOU DON'T THINK DADDY IS TIRED, DO YOU?????

Lora: You shouldn't raise your voice to children like that.


She got Aamilei's other hair, and got put to bed. That hair looks very cute on little ones, since it's short and fluffy, but it's got a horrible bald patch in the back for toddlers. If anyone knows of a better mesh, please let me know! :)


In the bathroom, Harriet was being Ninja Cat.


Then she dropped down and started kicking the crap out of something invisible.


I love Sim-cats, LOL!


Sean: Today I read the pink book at the top shelf.


We're totally not playing favourites, and that's not why Elena's wearing a custom outfit.


There wasn't any Smart-Milk available, but it was autumn, and the training went a bit faster than usual. She didn't learn to walk in this session, but she got about half-way there. In an even longer potty-break than her brother's, she was also house-broken.

(Also, This hardline symmetry of people in pants?? Have you been visiting the crack-heads down the street, Eddie?)


Sadie: You're a very good maid, Lucy. But it's ME who's head of this house, not the cat. I would like you to stop adressing her as "Mistress."

Lucy: Yes, Mistress.


Look, a non-poisonous cake for a kid's birthday. :)


Lora thought the family should have some proper grub as well.

Bailey: What is this "quality food" I've been hearing about?

Sadie's still not got many cooking points. x)


What? Lora, you have like seven skill-points in cooking, and you make a soup even your unskilled daughter can cook?


Sean: I'm so glad I'm not going to have to everrrr see Mrs. Swiller again.

Stephen: Mrs. Hawkesworth is not a joke either, but at least she doesn't have animated warts.


*brotherly bonding*


Sean: I still think we should join that gothic lady's cult.


Daniel: But what if she's secretly even scarier than Mrs. Swiller? You don't know what a scary sect will do?

Sean: After facing Mrs. Swiller, you'll be ready for anything.


Stephen: And after meeting Mrs. Hawkesworth, being part of a brainwashing cult will seem like sweet freedom!

Sean: THERE WAS GARLIC IN THE SOUP!


Then he morphed into a teenager, and I lost the screen that showed his stats, but he's Popularity.


Sean: I hope I'll need less sleep now that I'm in puberty.


Anyway, this is teen Sean. He still looks a lot like Stephen. Maybe I should goffickify him, so he'll match his room? That will have to wait until after we've visited the Magpies and Starbloom again, though.

That's all for tonight, folks!

Comments

[simlili.livejournal.com]

YAY EMOTIONAL ABUSE

Mrs Faulkner :D

Oh man, Lonzo! I had forgotten about him :)

Garage doors:
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=324925
That was some really sloppy eaxian work to never fix that in a later patch X[

[tigerannesims2.livejournal.com]

TBH, when weren't the MacAvoys emotionally abusive to their children?

Thanks for the link. It will be very much installed!

[alittlestrange.livejournal.com]

Yay more Macs! I thought you'd be too busy decorating the Magpies' new house to post this, so I are pleezed.

And yay for truant ISBI children! The Dimwits have truancy--and weak bladders--deeply implanted in their DNA by now. X) But with a teacher like Mrs. Swiller, however, who can blame the boys!

Speaking of eternal kittens, remember Adonis and Aphrodite's household got a kitten, Gimli? He STILL hasn't grown up. I mean, he did, but then I had to restore a backup (can't remember why right now), and 2015 was a sucky year so I've not had time to play them long enough for poor old Gimli to grow up (again). This learned me to make more frequent backups!

I like that couch in the picture of Sadie teaching Stephen his homework. Where can has?

LOL Daniel! For some reason I get a huge kick out of toddlers crawling around pouting.

Oh man, EAxis and that dumb maid fetish! If that's your kink, whatever, but don't force it on me, bros. I have a link to the default replacement maid van I use on my Resources page, if you want it.

Excellent parenting, Sadie!

Uh-oh, is Danny a self-saboteur like Andrew?

Sim routing! It makes sense!

I've put the vegetable wraps in my game recently and have wondered about that, too. X) I guess whoever made them didn't have much choice about what to clone the meal from?

I was going to name her Tarja, but Maikana called and said that this is a name that belongs to a future Nightinwolf child.

Agreed. :D

You boys will benefit from having grown up in a balanced atmosphere, in touch with your feminine sides.

Sounds like Jeremy's mother's philosophy!

Poooor Danny! Surrounded by a supportive family!

You, too? My little MP3 player is getting really quite scary about bringing up appropriate songs as I put my updates together!

Aww, Harriet. <3

Oh my wow, I've never actually looked at the person behind the desk in that thought bubble. It does look like a goth lady! XD XD XD

*applauds* Thanks for another great update! I've probably told you this before, but I really like the Macs' house. The layout is interesting, and it's a cozy place. :)

[tigerannesims2.livejournal.com]

I need to hunt down some nice, bright plaster wallpapers I've seen somewhere, before I can decorate Magpie Nest the way I want it. In the mean time... I got naughty. You'll see how in a few days, I guess. There was a good reason for it, though.

That couch claims it is by SimsInParis, but I have a feeling it could be a recolour from somewhere.

Sadie has a very ummm... unique approach to giving her children self-esteem.

I don't think any of the boys are quite up to Andrew-levels of sad yet. That would be... sad.

I suppose I could try to put the Mac-house up for download. It's absolutely loaded with CC, though. Buuuuut, if you want it, I could try.

I'm glad you liked the update. :)

[alittlestrange.livejournal.com]

Okay! A little Gluggling and I found it and some recolors. Thanks!

I doubt anyone in my game will ever fail as hard as Andrew...at least I hope not!

Nah, that's okay. But if you'd like to take aerial pictures of the floor plan, maybe I could replicate it. What size is the lot?

[tigerannesims2.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure the lot is 5x6, but you probably won't need one larger than 4x5.

There's an overview here. It wasn't a very difficult house to build, so if I can do it, you certainly can. Besides, you'd have to adapt it to your own needs anyway. *tries to not feel lazy*

[alittlestrange.livejournal.com]

I remember that post. Thanks for finding it!

Funny story! I wanted to post the above remark but felt too lazy to log back in. So I tried to post anonymously, but it took me to this page where I was expected to assemble a picture to leave my comment. lolwhut? I decided logging back in would take less effort. X)

[tigerannesims2.livejournal.com]

Oh, right. The picture-captchas. They're supposed to be unsolvable for spam-bots. I do have an empty version of the house, with just some wallpaper and flooring, in case you don't really feel like dragging walls.

[alittlestrange.livejournal.com]

I'll be a little scared if they invent a bot that can solve those.

Okay! That would be great. It does take me a ridiculously long time to work out dimensions when I'm building, so that would save a bunch of time. As long as no Sim has lived in it and it hasn't been in the lot bin, right?

[tigerannesims2.livejournal.com]

Nobody has lived in it, but it IS a spare copy I put in the bin.

[alittlestrange.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, that's probably safe. I haven't heard anything about it, anyway.