4.03 – We Are Family

Previously, the glitchy twins graduated high school and aged up to YA. Cosette wooed and wed Flamingo Chimeree, and Nessa the simbot moved out.

Sorry this has taken so long; I’ve been focusing on the Maloneys – last chapter is coming up soon.
But while I’ve been neglecting this blog, you guys haven’t! We hit 1000 views this week, yay!

We start with Penny’s birthday! (on a full moon, no less)

She has Yttrium’s hair, woot! And wait a sec…glowing eyes? And pointy ears?
That’s right, Penny is not Flamingo’s daughter. She’s Michelangelo’s. And I swear, I had nothing to do with it. Cosette took it upon herself to risky woohoo with Mikey while we were waiting for Flamingo to come home; I got distracted with Marius and Fantine resetting themselves, and got back just in time to see them get out of bed.

Penny inherited Mikey’s ears and occult status; her pale pink eyes are from Phoenix/Fiyero. She’s adorable. But she will not be heir, since she is not a legitimate child of our chosen heir and spouse. Cosette and Flamingo’s first (probably only) child will be our next heir.

Phoenix is out again…or maybe she’s been out since yesterday, I can’t remember. But she’s the most exciting ghost in a long time.

Cosette gets right onto potty training, despite rolling zero wishes for her daughter.

As I said in the previous chapter, I’m going to see whether Marius and Eponine want to hook up with their respective IFs.

Marius really likes his.

She accepts his HOTM kiss, and before long they’re going steady.

Eponine likes her own IF, also.

Their first kiss is a little less spontaneous.

And then we moved all four of them out together. Whether they stay together or not is up to SP now.

Wedding gifts have come in for Cosette and Flamingo. I don’t know either of these people.

But nice to know Mikey also wishes them well.

And now we are back to only 5 in the house. For now.

Because Cosette is pregnant again. Definitely Flamingo’s child this time. She wants a boy; so do I.

Yttrium brought back a new gnome, it’s a caveman!

Lol, these two are so boring. Cosette is reading another pregnancy book, as she wished.

And now she wants this, so Flamingo will read one, too.

Yttrium loves her little granddaughter. And this ‘bathe’ interaction is so cute.

After finishing Penny’s bath, Yttrium goes back outside to continue building her snowman army. Yep, she made every one of these. Don’t ask me why she’s doing grim reaper snowmen; as a Coward she should be scared of him.

Flamingo doesn’t mind that Penny isn’t his biological daughter, he helps with her training anyway.

I really like Cosette’s pregnancy outfit; it’s warm but also sporty. I may just make this her permanent Everyday outfit.

She won her first match; wow, what a huge scoreline.

More wedding gifts…

including one from dead Chance? Hmm. He doesn’t look dead in the thumbnail.

Baby time! Apparently it’s so painful, Cosette shoved her hand through her stomach to try and pull the baby out. o.O

It’s twins! Meet Seaweed and Maybelle. Seaweed is a Neurotic Slob who likes Red, Chinese music and Grilled Cheese. Maybelle is Excitable and Perceptive, and she likes Turquoise, Beach Party music and Falafel.
(I’m not counting the second baby of this pregnancy as a broken restriction, since there was only the one pregnancy. Penny still counts, though)

Turquoise and Red are hard colours to make work together; I chose a sea theme for their bedroom, hopefully it’s not too blinding.

Naw, Yttrium now wants 5 grandkids. Well, you broke the rules and had 3 kids, so hopefully Marius or Eponine will give you some; Cosette is now done.

*facepalm* No, Heather.

There are so many things wrong with this popup. Not least that Nessa stole Lincoln Baker from SimTam (who stole him from SimSam in the first place).

OMG, finally! Poor Fiyero, he’s been chained to the bench for the last two updates, but he’s finally done it! He’s built 50 big inventions and is now a Master Inventor! Hopefully this will help him max the Inventing career soonish.

Yeah, I sent Flamingo on that date anyway; he wants more friends, so let’s start with Heather.

As always, she loves building snowmen.

These guys love the babies. If I didn’t force them away, they would never put the burritos down.

Meanwhile, Cosette is teaching her eldest daughter the final toddler skill she needs.

Huh, I must have missed the other popup. Apparently Fantine was pregnant. This is grandchild #4 for Yttrium.

Naw, this is too cute. Flamingo chose to do this all on his own; I guess he loves reading all books.

No, Cosette, that is quite enough children out of you!

Fiyero has one more inventing challenge left to complete; detonate 150 objects. Naturally, we started at the junkyard.

Eponine takes up with her sister’s leftovers.

While Marius is content with the figment of his imagination. This baby should fulfil Yttrium’s wish for 5 grandchildren.

The car continues to be a popular autonomous activity.

Sorry Heather, friends is the most you’ll get out of Flamingo.

Fiyero apparently got singed at the junkyard. I wonder what he thinks of the newly pink-i-fied bathroom?

Autonomous amorous hug. These two are keeping the love alive, now that Fiyero is off the leash a bit.

Eponine finds another RI. She’s making the rounds a bit.

Someone (maybe Chance?) is haunting the pirate ship. Penny does not give a single fuck.

Cutie toddler werewolf spam:

(is it just me, or does she look like a footballer in that last shot?)

And that’s all we have, because it’s time for her birthday! Cosette wished to throw her a party, so sure.

We invited Penny’s father, who has yet to meet his daughter. And what kind of food is that, I haven’t seen that before… must be an ITF one.

Also invited are Geneva Zalie, who seems to favour her father (Sinbad Rotter) a lot.

And Willow Winterwolf (Sam’s daughter). I’m not sure who her father is, but it seems her genetics are pretty mixed.

The girls don’t care about the birthday, but Mikey does, that’s good.

She rolled Genius, to add to Loner and Loves the Heat.

Such a cutie, even though she is very similar to Cosette; the different colouring helps – she’s got a lighter skintone as well as eye and hair colour different.

We haven’t had one of these in a while, but Parker and Boq are still in love. I’m trying to figure out how to get SP to give them a baby without manually pollinating one.

Penny officially meets her father for the first time.

He’s a bit awkward about it; apparently Cosette never told him.

Penny then goes off to meet the kids; Willow first. Both she and Geneva ran off as soon as Penny had greeted them; to be fair, it was pushing onto 8pm by this time.

Mr Lefty is after Fiyero…

While Yttrium is smustling in Cosette’s room. These guys are funny on freewill.

Someone finally tried to pick up the guitar on Chance’s grave. I quickly headed Flamingo off before he ruined the memorial.

He enjoyed himself anyway.

Penny’s first snowman is Grim. She’s scaring me, just a little.

After helping Penny blow out her candles, Cosette scurried off to work.

Where she earned a promotion; this is L6.

She didn’t come home right after, choosing instead to play in the snow. Loves the Cold indeed.

That night, it’s also the twin’s birthday!

Seaweed has Yttrium’s hair and eye colour, and Flamingo’s freckly skin!

Maybelle has Cosette/Fiyero/Chance’s hair colour, and Flamingo’s pink eyes.

Cosette immediately wishes to play with Maybelle on the rocking rider. So cute!

As he has wished, Flamingo has joined the Angler career.

And, by selling all the fish he had in his pocket, he’s immediately up to L4.

Who is that on the trampoline?

Ah, Phoenix again. She is the most entertaining (and most frequent) ghostly visitor.

I finally remembered to make the Simselves occults; this way they’ll stay around longer.

Little Miss Genius wanted a telescope. As Yttrium unlocked this with the Science career, we can fulfil the wish.

Almost immediately, she discovers a comet. If you’re not familiar with Hairspray, Turnblad is the surname of the main character, Tracy.

Penny is best friends with all the adults in the house.

And she’s*really* excited by this gift…I can’t remember what it was, nothing important.

Toddler training is underway! Cosette has wished to teach Maybelle to potty and talk, and Seaweed to walk. Flamingo wants to teach Maybelle to walk. Good thing the grandparents can take up the slack with poor Seaweed.

I love this face!

After her first day of school, Penny brought Geneva home for a playdate.

They neglected to change into their outerwear before playing tag in the snow. At least all the running around should help them stay warm, I guess?

OMG, let him go, Heather! Date Mikey, he’s available.