The Patel Family: Week 6

For Parvati's last year at uni click here. For Week 5 at the Patel family home, click here.

The Patels still live at the house I gave them when I started New Maximiliania.

Ramir is now 65 and still going strong as a Rock God. As he is on Permanent Platinum, I leave him to his own devices most of the time. His wife Ana is two years younger, and it is by no means certain that she will reach her lifetime want of having six grandchildren: So far, she has not even one.

Her daughter Parvati has recently graduated Summa Cum Laude in Philosophy and is ready to move back in with her parents. She used to have two younger siblings, the twins Param and Padma. But they died tragically in a fire that broke out at the gym that young Param owned. Therefore, Parvati will have to try and provide her Mom with all six grandchildren.
Good job that she is a Family Sim, too, and dreams of graduating three (but not six!) from college.

Parvati didn't have a boyfriend while she was at uni, but she was best friends with Cedric Cooke, Julien Cooke's half-Alien son. She likes him a lot and thinks he'd make a good father, coming from a large and loving home himself. So on this Monday, she invites him over, along with friend Sofia Baldwin.

In the meantime, Ramir finds his own entertainment :-)

The room that used to be the twins' is quickly furnished with a double bed instead of two single ones, and it takes Parvati only one single flirtatious action before we have read hearts between her and Cedric. Lifetime want, here we come!

To make things a little easier, I have Parvati eat cheesecake afterwards.

"Or maybe you would have preferred fried eggs...?" she asks Cedric, who seems a little distracted.

Early on Tuesday morning, Ramir takes it upon himself to empty the bin. He does that nearly every day without me telling him to.

Ana wans to learn physiology and Parvati, most fittingly, parenting, so I have them sit in the living room with their books.

That night, Ramir returns from work with colleague Florence Delarosa - but she died "years" ago, and her ghost disappears seconds after this picture was taken. Strange, that! I've never had a Sim bring a ghostly colleague home!

On Wednesday, Parvati's pregancy becomes obvious. I do hope it will be twins!

Ana spends a pleasant summer morning harvesting oranges.

On Thursday morning, she watches her daughter sleep, expecting her to need help with giving birth any minute.

But all seems quiet, and so she ventures out on the back porch where Ramir has been playing with his model railway. He is happy to see his wife joining him :-)

Hours later, at 7:11 pm, Parvati goes into labour.

Priya (girl, Alien skin-tone) and Patrick are born without any problem. That's two out of the six grandchildren Ana longs for.
Checking the Patel family tree, I find out that Priya was the name of Ramir's grandmother. Little Priya is the first baby in New Maximiliania that is born to a half-Alien parent and has the green skin tone.

Ana is over the moon and helps as much as she can. Here she takes little Patrick the kitchen to get him a bottle.

It is Friday morning when Ramir decides to make a "light breakfast" of pork chops ;-)

Parvati's bedroom now holds two baby beds (one is at the foot end of the bed) and a changing table.

Parvati invites Cedric over to meet his children... and start work on (hopefully!) the next set of twins.

After Cedric has complied with her wishes (not that he needed much persuading), it's another piece of cheesecake for Parvati.

On Saturday morning, by the looks of her belly and judging from her tiredness, I guess my plan is working out.

Yes, that's right!

The doting grandparents compete for who gets to do what with the little ones. This time, Ramir was faster in getting Patrick out of his crib.

But Ana beats him to it when it comes to feeding Priya a little later.

While guests Carolina Capp and Meike Riley are bickering (how impolite!), Parvati has some more cheesecake. Just to make sure, you know.

It is Sunday morning, and Ana dons an apron with a teddy bear. It's a practical choice of outfit when you handle babies and - soon - toddlers.

Autumn has begun, and amazingly, Ana still finds time to rake the leaves in the front yard.

In the afternoon, Priya is helped turning into a toddler by her Mom. Parvati tries over and over again to do the same with Patrick, but the action of "help with birthday" keeps changing into "hold youngster", and the week ends with Patrick still a baby. I guess I'll have to buy a birthday cake for him next round; I've had this glitch often.

Is Parvati going to have twins again? Will her mother live long enough to see six grandchildren being born? Is Cedric going to marry Parvati, and live with her and the kids?

The Ottomas-Monty Household: Week 8

It's not that long ago that we've spent a week at this house, when it was the turn of Romeo and Maria Monty on the alphabetical list. Now we're back for the main family here: The Ottomas.
Once upon a time, the Ottomas family was large and widespread, but not that many of them are left. Peter and Samantha died of old age, and some of their children died in a house fire elsewhere in the neighbourhood.
Who is still around?

Here we have Romeo Monty and one of his nephews. Romeo became Captain Hero 6 days from Elderhood and is now on Permanent Platinum.

Lilith Ottomas, nee Pleasant, married David Ottomas a long time ago. She is now 65 and still going strong as a Rock Goddess, which means she is often out for work at night and sleeps during the day.

Her husband, David Ottomas, is 5 years younger and still waiting for his lifetime want of being The Law to come true.

Brother-in-law Mercutio Monty married David's younger sister Sharla Ottomas. His brother Romeo and Romeo's half-Alien daughter Maria moved in with the family some years back. Mercutio is 55 and has been on Permanent Platinum ever since he became Hall of Famer 16 days from Elderhood.

Mercutio greets Calendula Capp (one of Tybalt Capp's plantchildren) on this Monday morning.

Maria (not yet pictured), comes home from school with Stacy Stacks today.

Here she is, sporting her new winter look and serving one of the Baked Alaskas I found in one of the family members' inventories.

The girls talk about the difficult maths problem they were given at school today.

Mercutio greets Mickey Dosser just as the school bus pulls up again in front of the house to drop of Odell and Orlando, the twins he has with his wife Sharla.

At 6.00 pm, Romeo turns into an Elder.

It is Tuesday morning and Romeo, whom I am not controlling, is nearly frozen - he's been playing the electric guitar for hours and hours out there in the snow.

Sharla is not yet on Permanent Platinum, as her LTW is to have six grandchildren, and her sons are still only school kids. Therefore, it is often her who does the housework, but her sister-in-law Lilith helps out, too, as do the men.

The sentry bot - a gift from Lilith's sister Angela Pleasant - breaks and starts zapping an unsuspecting neighbour.

Before Sharla can deactivate and repair it, she gets zapped as well.

Later, Justin Kim walks by and is greeted by Sharla.

Odell does his homework upstairs, with Uncle David nearby in case he has a question.

At 6.00 pm on that Tuesday, Odell...

...grows up into a teenager. The lot decides on his aspiration to be Popularity, and his LTW is revealed as that of becoming Media Magnate.

His twin brother takes a few more hours, but eventually Orlando...

...is a teenager, too. He follows his mother's footsteps: as a Family Sim, he already dreams of six grandchildren.

David sits with his nephew Orlando for a piece of birthday cake and gives him some advice on studying, even though the boy won't really need it for his LTW.

The twins start Wednesday morning with a pillow fight. Their bedroom has only undergone some redecorating for the walls; the furniture is still the same.

I have Lilith greet Castanea Landgraab who seems rather thinly dressed for the weather.

Romeo tells their guest that he keeps thinking of going on a date with his long-term girlfriend Melody Tinker. (All week, Romeo has wishes for dates and woohoo, but never about anyone specific.)

Stacy Stacks gets off the school bus with Maria, Odell and Orlando today.

Lilith greets fellow Rock Goddess Jessie Pilferson-Dosser. She does not approve of the far-too revealing dress the other woman is wearing. Is there some professional rivalry between the two ladies, I wonder?

Odell talks to his Mom about college. "If I go, I want to graduate with honours," he announces.

Orlando, Maria, Stacy and Odell have some more Baked Alaska. Stacy obviously would have preferred something savoury.

Let me begin Thursday with this nice shot of Lilith.

Sharla repairs the toy robot.

Romeo greets Jacqueline Jacquet-Newson and discovers he has three bolts for her.

David finally has reached the top of the Law career and his now on Permanent Platinum, too. Congratulations, David! It took you long enough ;-) (He is 63 now.)

B'Elanna Beaker is one of Maria's many half siblings and class mate. The teenage girls always have something to giggle about.

On Friday, Lilith invites her twin sister Angela Pleasant over, along with Angela's long-term sweetheart Puck Summerdream. Puck and Angela live together but have never showed the wish to marry.

Meike Riley comes home from school with the kids today.

I wonder what Romeo and David are talking about there in the kitchen on Saturday morning!

Orlando tries to flirt with B'Elanna, who has come over on invitation of Maria, and even offers her a backrub. But much as B'Elanna likes the boy as a friend, she is not interested in any romantic interaction with him.

Maria greets Mickey Dosser, Jessie Pilferson's husband.

Orlando rolls the wish to buy a love potion, and I have him do just that. Will it help him in his attempts at winning B'Elanna's affections?

It is Sunday morning, and the house is now surrounded by a lot more trees than at the beginning of the week. This is thanks to Sharla rolling the wish to "buy a tree" nearly every day.

Mercutio makes toaster pastries for breakfast on his own accord.

Odell greets Giselle Goth.

The girl tells her hosts how she is now all alone in the big Goth villa, with her Dad, twin brother and everyone else dead after a tragic fire in the yard.

This was a very long week to play; with so many Sims in the house, some largely uncontrolled while I had to watch the others. That meant I rarely played on fast forward and so it took me a while to complete the week. But it was good fun, and I am already looking forward to seeing what the teens will be up to eventually.

Merry Christmas to all of you! If you visit my other blog, you'll see something about what Christmas is/was like for me this year over the next few posts :-)