Mary's third trimester, Wally's a teen

It won't be long before there's another little Ugly child requiring SimAttention in my game. Mary is in her third trimester and will give birth in a few hours, and Wally just finished celebrating his teenaged age transition.

As Wally relaxes with Mom before she drifts off to sleep again, Mary tells Wally that this pregnancy is a lot harder than with him - she's incredibly tired and incredibly hungry and feels like she has to go to the bathroom all the time as well. Maybe this one is a girl?

Mary and Joe don't even mention the possibility of twins. The house is too small, they're not ready for that much responsibility!

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Sure sign #2 is on the way

I love the way she's thinking about Joe as she hurls.

'Nuff said.

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Sims 2 Glitch - Chess Board affecting Sim's arm

I've had this glitch before but never caught what my Sim was doing at the time he got bugged in this way, and therefore I've never really had a clue what to do to fix it.

Joe Ugly and Mary Ugly went off into the bedroom in the evening with Wally and his friend playing outside, but they didn't conceive, so when Wally was painting in the livingroom the next morning, Joe and Mary had been playing chess together for an hour and decided to stop doing that and try again for a baby.

Mary was the one who cancelled out the chess playing, and it looks like Joe was in the middle of taking one of her pieces when the 'quit' command went through. The result is Joe walking everywhere with his left arm in the position it's in in this picture.

I've sat them down again to play chess and I'm hoping he'll come out okay this time.

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Bye Bye Nanny, more promotions, getting older...

Mary came home today to find Wally playing with a new friend in the front yard, while the Nanny was in Mary and Joe's bedroom, pilfering the money from the ripe Simoleon trees. Bye Bye Nanny. Good thing Mary got promoted to Congressperson today and is off work at 3 PM again and can be home for Wally after school.

Joe got a promotion as well, now he's a Specialist with short working hours - only 6 hours a day! He's still working M-F, in fact the whole family works and goes to school from Monday to Friday and has the weekends off. It's really nice for them, there's ample time for maintaining relationships and homework.

On his way home, Joe started thinking about Wally's next stage of life, and realized it was coming up in a few days. He then reflected back and realized that his own life was set to change in under two weeks! He and Mary would no longer be able to have children soon!

Even though they can't afford that new house yet, Joe and Mary decided to go ahead and have another baby anyway. They'd make due with the room they had and Wally has happily agreed to help look after the little tyke.

Joe and Mary told Wally not to ask about the baby, that it would arrive when it was nature's time for it to arrive.

With Wally happily entertained with his new friend Marsha from school, Joe and Mary snuck off together into the bedroom...

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Wally and the Nanny, Joe scopes out houses.

After Mary got her promotion to the State Assembly, she and Joe agreed that leaving Wally with a Nanny for an hour after school wasn't going to hurt anything.

"Wally's such a nice kid, he should be able to get along for an hour without us," Mary said, and Joe agreed. It would be good for his boy to interact with others outside of the family while still in the safety of his own home and personal domain. Maybe if he became friends with the Nanny he'd have someone else to talk to about the kids at school, and how to deal with their teasing and alienation.

The Nanny, Calista, was reading a newspaper in a chess table chair on the front deck when Wally came home from school today. She immediately stood up when he got off the bus, and Wally headed over to her for a quick chat, just to see what that would go like. It went well, and gave Wally a sense of comfort, even though he missed Mom and Dad and would rather see them after school for recounting the adventures of the day.

On the way home from work, Joe checked out some bigger houses in the area - one that would support a teenager and two young children, plus both parents. Also, he was tired of living with low-quality appliances and having no way to exercise at home, so when he drove by the Tidy Tudor with a swimming pool in the yard and thought the house might be the right size, he slammed on the brakes and parked.

Joe didn't think of calling the house's sales agent, he walked right to the front door, knocked, and when a middle-aged gent answered the door, Joe started his tour of the house. Turns out it was just over $95,000 and looked PERFECT for Joe and Mary's needs. Joe and Mary don't have that much money yet, but it gives them a goal.

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Time Passes, Wally the Youth

Since Wally became a toddler, life got easier because he was able to be left with the Wobbly Wabbit with no problems for hours on end and that helped Mom and Dad be able to get things done and socialize with new people in the mean time.

Wally had a great birthday party and has headed off to his first day of school.

Joe is now a General Practitioner but finds there's a lot of study and work to be done to even think of promotion out of the clinic he's at right now. He's earned a holiday day at work so even though it's Monday and his schedule is a nice M-F 10-6, he's chosen to take today off, to have some "me" time for himself.

Mary was elected to her first political post, that of City Council Member. It's a pretty deft job for being able to be home for Wally, since she leaves for work after he leaves for school and is home at the same time as him after school. No need for a nanny even if Mom and Dad work, what a relief!

Oops, despite not having enough Charisma when she went to work, she made a great decision, earned 2 points of Charisma and got promoted to State Assemblyperson, which means she doesn't get home until an HOUR after Wally does. Hrm...

Together, Mary and Joe have been talking about buying that bigger home they'd talked about when they were first dating. As soon as Wally was born, Joe and Mary began saving money, knowing that as soon as Wally became a teenager he'd be able to help with the new baby once in a while when Mom and Dad were in a crunch... but the house they're in right now won't support two kids for very long.

The problem is, Joe and Mary still can't keep their hands off of one another, and since we know what causes Sim Children...

Here's a picture of Wally as a child, coming home from his first day of school.

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Got distracted by World of Warcraft ;)

I'm back! I'm going to continue this family and post more very soon. I got distracted by World of Warcraft, which my nephew got for Christmas, and which had a 10 day trial pass for a guest... ME!

But now I'm not all jonesin' for the game, I'll get back to what I'd been planning to do before it came along!

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