2. Welcome back to SiMania Admods: The Musical! When we left off at
the end of scene 2, Christine and Raoul were about to have a double
birthday, to childhood and the toddler years, respectively. Let’s see
how they look . . .
(Erratum: last chapter I said Rolfe was family but he’s actually pleasure.
He just rolled wants for the wedding because he’s an elder and that
confused me momentarily.)

3. Here’s Raoul. He sure is a cutie. It’s too bad he doesn’t have the
skin. His personality is 5/4/9/5/9. It’s interesting that he and his
sister are so nice, because Marty only has one nice point and Steven
only has four.

4. Here’s Christine, still adorable. She got a new haircut for
childhood that shows off her face better. In the picture at
left, she’s wondering why her mom did the chest pound
gesture at her. I just loved the face she was making.

5. Pregnant Marty once again made
best friends with her child on his
birthday, though this time it was
right after the cake instead of
before. Steven made best
friends with Raoul the next day.
This family is very close.

6. The four puppies – Soprano, Contralto, Tenor, and Baritone
– are still a handful. Pee puddles everywhere and puppies
getting into everything. I liked the picture of Contralto
appraising Rolfe’s choice in leisure activities – what an
observant puppy!

7. Earthy Isaac was still hanging around after
the party long enough for Marty to cheat
at chess. He never caught on, though.
Before I learned that finicky pets needed
the most expensive bowl (thanks,
Haleigh!), I gave up on Putzie eating and
just had people feed him treats several
times a day. On her birthday, Christine
maximized her creativity due to spending
a lot of time as a toddler on the
xylophone.

8. The children’s new life stages bring new
opportunities for learning. Raoul gets
taught all his skills by his family
members, and Christine heads off for
her first day of school. In their spare
time, the siblings play together at the
table to raise their relationship.

9. The puppies finally grew up and I am very disappointed. I
should have realized earlier that all their personalities were
the same as Diva, and what that probably meant. Yep,
they’re all clones of their mother. I like beagles and they’re
cute, but I didn’t really need five of them. Not only did they
not inherit Putzie’s blue mask, they didn’t inherit a single
thing from him! At least now they can go pee on their own
outside.

10. And surround and overwhelm poor neighborhood kids, like cousin
Lloyd here. I don’t know what Putzie’s deal is in this picture but I
would be scared if a dog made that face at me.

11. With two kids and one on the way, we really didn’t need six
dogs in the house. Soprano and Tenor (female and male,
respectively) had already made friends in the house so they
got to stay and Lydia can decide which one she wants to
breed next. Contralto went to Betty and Baritone went to
Tom, but not before peeing in the graveyard one more time
like his uncle Doody. Tsk tsk. Now all the spares and their
families have a dog as well.

12. “So . . . about the baby . . .”
“What?! We’re having another baby?! That’s great news!”
“Um, we only found that out last chapter, Steven. Keep up.”
“But you’ve been two days pregnant for like a hundred slides.”
“Yeah, well, someone likes to take a lot of pictures.”

13. Christine is a slow skiller, but she
plods along and eventually fills up
one bar after another.
Luckily she didn’t take as long
to learn to do her homework.

14. Raoul continues his learning too. While
teaching him to talk, Marty finally
experiences her second bump. Getting
closer to the last kid of the generation.
Something I want to point out – see that
the bottle in the speech bubble is
different than the one on the ground?
The one in the bubble is my default, so
the one on the ground must be Katie’s
and is overriding mine. Funny how these
things work.

15. Christine and Raoul are best friends nearly right away.
Christine adores her younger brother and is constantly
wanting to play with him. All those tickles and peek-a-boos
made them best friends fast.

16. Um, Steven? You’re supposed to be bathing some of our filthy
beagles.
“Yeah, but they jumped out of the tub, so I thought, hey, why waste
warm water?”
You’re bathing in dog water? Eww . . .

17. I love these conversations. They are just so wacky. I imagine this one
is about recycling puppy appearances and personalities so we get
clones, and how it’s a good thing I intervene so that doesn’t happen to
the babies. Or something.

18. Christine is very playful and loves to tell jokes. Here, her joke
about an astronaut was so funny that Steven broke his left
wrist slapping his own face. Ouch.

19. While she’s pregnant and off from work (currently as an acclaimed
muralist, though she hasn’t been to a day of work so far), Marty likes
playing the piano. She finally reaches the zone. I love that they
change into concert clothes. Best zone, imo.

20. Marty quickly changes back to her pjs after one particularly rousing
performance, just in time to give birth to the third child. Rolfe? You
may want to turn around and pay a little attention here.

21. Secondary family Marsha and primary family Steven are delighted that
there’s going to be a new baby, but what is Marty getting 1,000 points for?
Why, meeting someone new, of course. Hmmph, romance sims. She really
has never given up on those wants, so it’s a good thing she’s
permaplatinum.

22. Amazing! Another blue baby! This one is named Erik, and has Steven’s dark
blue eyes and Marty’s brown hair (yes, I’m pretty sure it’s brown this time).
Erik is the real name of the phantom. He is jealous and possessive of
Christine, but also incredibly musically talented and with a real tender spot
for the young soprano. He finally gives her up after realizing the depth of
her love for Raoul. And yes, I just named three siblings after a love triangle.
Whoops!

23. Christine is as shocked as I was to see another blue sim in the house.
“But I’m supposed to be heiress! I will brook no competition!”
Um, yes you will, because I say so. Chill, child. It’s anyone’s game at
this point and you do also have the eyes and red hair. However, this
does mean we have two potential heirs!

24. Oh my god, a hand-off! Is Marty having twins? No, this romance sim
just got tired of holding her new baby for two whole minutes.

25. Hey Aria, you just missed scaring Marty while she was pregnant again.
“Oh darn.”
She’s still the only one that’s figured out how to come in the house.
Mark appears to play with the dogs pretty frequently, however.

26. Ahahahahahaha! My writing of Christine resenting Erik’s birth is not just
authorial fancy. She actually hates the little guy from his birth, evidenced
by her thought bubble and negative relationship points, both daily and
long-term. I find this oddly hilarious.
Also amusing: despite there being a ton of toys in her room and just
outside the door, Christine climbed on her bed first thing in the morning
and started daydreaming. I’ve never seen a kid do that before.

27. Christine may hate him, but everyone else adores Erik. Since Raoul
is still occupying the nursery, Erik moves into the so-far empty boys’
room so he won’t wake Raoul up or vice-versa.

28. Christine brings home her first A
from school. Meanwhile, Raoul
can’t stop thinking about when
he’ll be able to bring home his
own good grades.

29. That day is coming sooner than he thinks, since it’s Raoul’s birthday.
Soon he’ll be in school like his big sis and best bud. Unfortunately for
him, it’s a Friday, so he’ll have to wait several days.

30. Aww, finally these two friends can hug. Raoul continues to be a little
cutie-pie.

31. Aria is at work again. She seems to be very concerned both
with the contents of our refrigerator and also that Marty
doesn’t get too comfortable in the house.

32. Christine spends every morning on her bed, usually
daydreaming about her cousins. Raoul, on the other
hand, plays with toys like a normal kid. Now that he’s a
child, he moved into the now-decorated boys’ room and
Erik took over the nursery.

33. *Record scratch*
Uh, why is Christine daydreaming
about the ugly guy that Marty fell in
love with before Steven? Did Marty
tell her some inappropriate bedtime
stories or something? “And that, dear,
is why your father looked even cuter
than usual.”
On the bright side, her
relationship with Erik has decayed
to zero, so now she just feels
apathy towards him instead of
actively despising him.

34. Christine is the only one that feels that way, though. Super-friendly mom
Marty made best friends with Erik the day after he was born. Wow!

35. Raoul continues to be obsessed with school. He’s always thinking or
talking about grades and school stuff. And then trying to impress girls
with that. Good luck, Raoul.

36. Christine continues to work on her skills, but because she is so slow,
Raoul is rapidly catching up with her.

37. Headmaster time! Marsha changes out of her nightie for a rare
moment to greet and schmooze the headmaster.

38. Meanwhile, Marty burns the salmon and sets the kitchen on fire.
Way to go, Marty.

39. While Marsha gave the tour, Marty put out the fire and cooked another
batch of salmon, which the headmaster was pleased with. Both
Christine and Raoul got into private school, despite the fact that Raoul
hasn’t been to school yet.

40. Because she is secondary knowledge, Marty wanted the kids to get
into private school. This is what I got when her wants refreshed after
that happened. Meet someone new, be BFF with earthy Isaac, fall in
love with Isaac, make out with five sims, buy a vacation home,
woohoo five sims. She’s also afraid of losing ugly guy as a best friend
and being rejected for a kiss by Isaac. She’s incorrigible. She kept
rolling wants to fall in love with Isaac over and over, so it’s a good
thing she’s no longer in oceanography and bringing him home.

41. Birthday time for little Erik. Even Christine manages to get excited.
Now we can finally work on their relationship.

42. Isn’t he adorable? Like I said, it’s anyone’s game at this point, at least
between the two of them, because technically the skin is the only
requirement. I do wish he had the eyes though, but he’s such a cutie I
can’t rule him out. His personality is 7/3/9/5/1, making him our only
mean sim of the generation. Interestingly, except for having three
fewer nice points, this is the same personality as Steven.

43. Time to teach Erik his skills. And
Steven, I really don’t think that’s
proper technique for potty training.
I’ve always thought this glitch was a
particularly creepy one.

44. I set the kids down at the table in the morning to start work on
their relationships before the older two go off to school. I looked
at the relationship panels and realized that while Erik was gaining
points with both of them, Christine’s hadn’t budged and Raoul’s
barely had. They must only be talking to each other instead of to
Erik. Therefore I had to separate them for some one-on-one time
and Christine was up first since she has the worst relationship
with poor little Erik and needed the most remedial socializing.

45. Putzie’s time has come. He lived a full life and brought
four new puppies into the world, despite not contributing
any of his genes. He was too finicky to eat dog food, but
he was a good dog and much beloved by his family.
Just once I would like to see a death scene without
everyone jockeying for positions and complaining that
there’s nowhere to stand. You’re outside, people, find a
place!

46. “Argh! I want to clean this toilet but there’s an old woman on it!”
“What do I have to do to get a little privacy in this bathroom? I
mean, seriously.”

47. Uh, Rolfe and Marsha? Listening to the dulcet tones of you two
making out is probably not helping the kids study. And really,
Christine needs all the help she can get. Raoul has now surpassed her
in skilling.

48. Christine got exhausted one Saturday afternoon despite the fact that
all she had been doing was studying next to a snapdragon. A quick
nap in a recliner got her back in shape to study some more, but the
recliner has been forever glitched as open since then.

49. Finally Christine and Erik made best friends! Erik had a really
positive relationship with Christine from the beginning and was
100/100 by the time this happened, but Christine sure has come a
long way from her days of thinking of Erik with a big X.

50. Why hello, Betty and Isaiah. These two are married to each other,
if you remember, and they both happened to show up at the
house at the same time.

51. After being invited in, Betty caught up
with her parents while Isaiah spoiled
the dogs. Betty then made friends with
the teenage cashier that Steven
inexplicably brought home from work
(which worries me a little) over juice
and robbers. At least Marty didn’t get
mysteriously furious this time!

52. Raoul and Christine continue to
have divergent paths first thing
in the morning. Christine
mostly thinks about her
cousins, despite the fact she’s
only met Lloyd so far. I think
it’s so interesting that she’s
apparently so thoughtful all on
her own.

53. After another long stretch of being pregnant and having myriad days
off, Marty is finally heading in to work at her art job. If she gets
promoted to visionary, this will complete her second LTW.

54. The day he’s been waiting pretty much his whole life for finally
came and Raoul got to go to school. He’s excited to do his
homework, which surprises no one.

55. Our boys in stripes make best friends quickly. They had a much
better relationship towards each other than Christine did
initially. I guess Raoul had nothing to be jealous of since he’s not
in the running for heir anyway.

56. Um, Steven? Mopping a puddle in the rain is highly unproductive.
Notice that a walk-by has been accosted by one of the dogs. No one
can walk by the house without being sniffed or asked to play by one
of the beagles.

57. Yay Marty! There’s that second LTW completed! Her new lifetime
want is to become a cult leader, which is the same as Steven’s second
one. Unlike Steven, Marty went to college so she can actually
complete this want.

58. “I am really worried about that girl. I mean, that’s just not normal.”
Me too, Marty. What in the world is she writing in her diary?!

59. And we’ll wrap up with another so-called “cliffhanger” birthday party.
Will Erik and Christine suddenly turn ugly? Will either of them fail to
grow up? Will something unexpected happen? Probably no to all of
those, but you’ll just have to read the next scene to find out! Sorry that
I had to make four of them this round, but there would have been one
huge third scene otherwise.
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