Champignon kids grow up

The younger twin girls got on well.

Cheverny, the baby, had a birthday and grew to a toddler.

The twins were still toddlers.

Cheverny was given more attention because he was the heir, and he learned to walk.  Below, the gardener is dancing around instead of working – huh.  He doesn’t get paid to dance!

Romain finally got promoted to Icon (I think. These photos were taken months ago.)  Elise greeted him.

Cheverny came out as well.

(Of course he couldn’t get down the stairs.)

Finally, the younger twins grew to school age.  First Cecile (I think!)

then Sabine (possibly)

DeMarr update

Monica liked to look after the new baby.

She didn’t seem too happy with Vincent for some reason.

Perhaps it was them who had a fight – I’ve forgotten now.

Radu’s birthday came around quickly.

People got sick of waiting for him to grow up, and ate cake.

Eventually he did.

The Lillard kids

Apologies for not having updated in a while.  I haven’t played Sims 2 for some time but did  have some photos I haven’t used yet.  The only problem is I’ve forgotten the circumstances surrounding them.

Up first, the Lillards.  The twins grew to school age.

Harry wasn’t too pleased.

Charlotte.

They don’t look too bad.  Perhaps the curse of the Lillard ugliness has ended.

I think this is Jerry, Emily’s son by Bjorn.

Then again, it could be Harry before his birthday.  Either way, Hereward is quite happy to look after him.

The Champignon girls

I hadn’t shown any photos of the older twins after their birthday.  This is Brigitte (Sorrow’s favourite).

I don’t have one of Elise on her own.

The younger twins, Cecile and Sabine, had a birthday already.

This is Sabine.

So now there were four toddlers in the house, a first for the Sim god:

It could have been a handful, but it wasn’t so bad.

The twins all played together.

The only problem was bedtimes with them wanting either to go to bed or be let out of the cot (oops, glitch here).

Then Felice went into labour…

Luckily for both of them it was a boy they named Cheverny.

So things were now a little hectic with five young children, even with the robot to help out.

Bedtimes were a nightmare.

Dog beds were easier…

Somehow the door got locked.

Romain to the rescue.

And then it was no longer an issue as the older twins grew up.

Brigitte:

Elise:

Whew!

Weddings

Isabelle Champignon did not return home (to the scene of her father’s death) after graduating from university.  She moved in with new resident Julien Cooke.  She wasn’t attracted to him at first but he grew on her and they decided to get married.  The reception was a success.

Isabelle had pillow fights with her mother, Beatrice, while Carine (Beatrice’s illegitimate daughter) looked on.

Meanwhile, Julien was perving at his new sister-in-law, Clarise, while she was on the toilet.

Creepy…

Bjorn Larsson was there.  He and Clarise are engaged.  They managed to have a quiet moment while the others were dancing.

Carine’s half brother, Chenet Champagne, also got married.  He had a rather grander affair at their house.  He married Samantha Menon.

Lastly, a glitch in the Arends household.  [Simon Arends was married to Portia Champignon and then Alicia Menon (Samantha's mother)].

Alicia looks on as her daughter-in-law, Sally, is engulfed by the nanny.  Urrgh.

The problem seemed to be with the spiral staircase.  No-one would go up it but would just hang around – then you had two people doing the same thing…  so the staircase got deleted.

Another DeMarr

Catriona grew pregnant again.

She hoped for a girl.

Daeron, meanwhile, had learned to walk.

Catriona visited her ageing parents with Vincent.

They talked about all sorts of things, including the birth of Francis’ daughter, Francoise.  Catriona and Vincent stayed for dinner.

Catriona was worried that her parents wouldn’t be around for much longer but they’re both very happy, still in love, and look to be living on for a while yet.  Neither of them had retired from their positions as mayor or city planner.

Catriona finally had the second baby.  It was a boy they called Radu.

I think it’s the first time a DeMarr family has had more than one boy (and no girls).  Catriona was happy enough and told Vincent that she only wanted two children.  Veronaville’s population was growing fast and she didn’t want to risk one of her children being a victim of the Sim god’s next cull.

Lazaria, meanwhile, took her baby to work.

It made it back home safely, but with some strange new powers of levitation.

At the Lillard residence

It was just as well Mickey the robot was there to help with the twins when Emily was otherwise occupied.

But their birthdays were just around the corner. – first Harry then Charlotte.

That didn’t mean that they got any more attention – in fact they needed more…

Emily was, by now, heavily pregnant so she couldn’t exactly run around.  And then her time came:

She made young Bjorn, recently engaged, a father of a boy, Jerry.

The father of the twins, Hereward, dropped out of university and joined Emily.  At least he can help out with the children.

Emily’s father, Michael, succumbed to the flu while in gaol.

He was just 59.

More twins

Felice, much to Romain’s distress, found some leftover cheesecake, so the inevitable happened.

She gave birth to another set of twins.

Unfortunately for Romain they were girls again.  Cecile and Sabine.

It was just before the older twin girls’ birthday and they gathered round to celebrate.

Sorrow held her favourite granddaughter, Brigitte,

then promptly died, putting rather a dampener on the celebrations.

Sorrow was 71.

In the excitement of the birthday and the grief following the death, one of the younger twins got forgotten.

Romain got Felice pregnant once again, hoping for a boy.  But he will be perfectly happy to have 10 children… I’m not so sure Felice would be.

Very brief DeMarr update

Catriona gave birth to a son, Daeron.  He quickly grew to toddlerhood.

Lazaria and Carlos now have a daughter, Carla.

Lucia has dropped out of university and moved into an apartment in Veronaville.  She advertised for a flatmate and one soon joined her.

They’re not romantically involved at all.

Tragedy and scandal! The Lillards

It appears Anna and Michael now lost interest in Spork.  He didn’t get the attention he needed from either one of them.

Their teenage daughter, Emma, was no longer there to look after Spork.  She’d left for university.

So Mickey, the robot, now powered up, took care of him.

Anna seemed suddenly intent on getting fit.  But even when she was exhausted…

she kept going, ignoring her needs.

So naturally she was very tired and very hungry.

She was either too lazy or too tired to feed herself.  I have no sympathy for stupid Sims.

Michael and Anna’s birthdays came around.  First Michael..

then Anna.

But Anna was still starving herself, so the inevitable happened.

She was 55.

With just Michael and Spork left, Emily made her move, literally.  She moved into the mansion.  Michael’s joy at his daughter’s apparent forgiveness, turned to horror when the cops turned up to arrest him.  Emily had notified them that he was a criminal mastermind.  They weren’t too kind with him.  The son of a Captain Hero being the town’s criminal mastermind was more than they could stomach.  Michael was forced to leave still in his pyjamas.

That left Spork, who had just had a birthday.

Emily refused to be his guardian so he had to leave as well.

Emily saw them both off but got struck by lightning (as if to punish her for her cruelty).

Spork’s new home was in Bluewater village – at the Landchild Home for Rejects.

Spork was bewildered that he couldn’t get through the property gate to farewell his dad who was on his way to prison.

And so Michael came to his new home downtown,

and was locked away.

In his cell he had a kitchen, bed, bathroom and a bookshelf and chair, but it was pretty dire and Michael thought he would go mad.

Unfortunately for him, the previous resident, Waylon Menon, had made a mess and there were cockroaches everywhere.

Michael soon got sick.

He had a fear of vermin so you can imagine he wasn’t happy, and he was so tired, he fell asleep on his food.

Considering Michael is platinum he could have a long life locked away, or he could get so sick that he dies soon.

Emily had her revenge.

But the reputation of the Lillards has been further tarnished, perhaps beyond repair.