Neighborly Sims--TS2--N119--Lovely Island--Adopt-a-Family Journal--Family #3

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Adopt-a-Family Journal --- Family #3

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Scenario Meet Georgina Snooker. Just a simple girl from your average small town. Likes to cook...but forget the cleaning! After moving into her home, she hired a maid service...and fell in love with Remington, the maid sent by the agency. In a whirlwind romance, they got married, giving birth first to Chris (now a teen), Duncan (little Toddler), and Alexis (Daddy's baby girl). Things seem perfect, and life couldn't be happier for Georgina. But is everything what it seems? Remington has been spending a lot of time...maybe a little too much time with the neighbor girl. Is everything as good as Georgina thinks...or wishes they would be? Will Remington...that spicy maid...be able to remain faithful to his loving wife and his family? What about the kids...is their Mother's love truly enough to keep the family together? Only you hold the key to this family.

My Story (02/22/07)

First of all, the Snooker family mysteriously came into quite a bit of money, and over the course of this "chapter," their house was changed, expanded, repainted, and better-furnished, plus they got a new car. Here's what the house looks like now.

The rosy exterior has been brightened a bit, and the same color added to the walkways, the back deck, and the new driveway. The living room has been extended out to the front porch , and the upstairs bedrooms have been rearranged a bit, with two bathrooms added. Everything's been freshened by new paint and wallpaper, and the house has been partially refurnished with greater comfort in mind.

While all the work was in progress, life was in the neighborhood was also proceeding. Here, Christy Sunner and Alec Gerard (soon to be married) dropped by, along with the little Seed girl from right next door. It was fairly early on a Sunday morning when the whole family had been lazing around and was still in the PJs. Trying to give everyone else time to get dressed, Remington greeted all the neighbors out on the front lawn. Unfortunately, Christy may have still been carrying around some vestiges of the dreaded Mysterious Disease, because shortly after Georgina greeted her, SHE came down with it. Of course, Christopher still had it, so he may have been the carrier who ultimately affected Georgina. Still, Georgina left for work a bit later (stubborn lady), while Christopher (who was almost better by then) and Alexis were away at school. Remington needed to go to work, also, but hadn't yet arranged for a nanny. For some reason, the first nanny he called didn't show up right away, so he called the agency again. They sent out a second nanny, who came immediately...WALKING onto the property from somewhere close by! By the time Christopher and Alexis had returned from school and Georgina had returned from work (bringing--I think--Poppy Seed along with her), both nannies were sitting around having coffee, since little Duncan had slept most of the afternoon away in his crib. The nanny thing did sort itself out the next day, and only the scheduled nanny showed up. However, it seems SHE is the one who walks to work!

Soon Duncan hit toddler age--what a cutie pie! Remington adores his younger boy, obviously. Since Georgina was supposed to rest, she and Remington took advantage of that fact, and spent some time together while the kids were sleeping. Soon another little Snooker was on the way. Georgina continued to rest as much as she could, but she never missed a day of work. Even at that (possibly because she's in pretty good shape), she was soon completely well...

...or so they thought. Unfortunately, poor Georgina seems to be quite susceptible to any last traces of the darned stuff, and since Christopher was still fighting his FIRST (and thankfully only) round with the Mysterious Disease, Georgina came down with it again. This time, since she was also pregnant, the doctor INSISTED that she spend the entire pregnancy in bed. She was very faithful to do that (after a few times of being sent back to bed immediately as soon as she stood up to go anywhere else in the house), and she spent most of her pregnancy daydreaming of Remington and the rest of the family. Before long, little Christina made her appearance. Remington was at work, but Christopher (who was well by then) and Alexis celebrated the new member of the family right along with their mom. Interestingly, the birth of the babe and Georgina's renewed healthy status must have totally coincided, because from that point on she never coughed again, and she never had any problems with sudden weakness or any other signs of the Mysterious Disease. FINALLY...all the members of the Snooker family were free of the health problems that had plagued them since the very beginning of their sojourn to Lovely Island!


Remington and Christopher spent much of their free time with little Duncan, teaching him all the skills he needed to get on with his little life. By the time he start-ed getting into Alexis' pretty pink toybox, he had already had one bottle of Smart Milk, and could walk very well.


Remington decided Duncan should have another bottle of Smart Milk, and then he began teaching him to talk. By then, Duncan was learning things lickety split. After his most recent lessons, Duncan was about to be bathed by Christopher, when an amazing series of events began to take place.



	Possibly because Duncan started his grow-up spin at exactly the same time Christopher tossed him in the air playfully, his growing up process became very strange. As you can see from the first picture, his spin actually took place in Christopher's arms, and he was kind of melded with poor Christopher. Then he received his child's body, but ended up on Christopher's head! Within a few minutes (as the rest of the family and the nanny and a school visitor came running to see what the hubbub was all about) Duncan slid down into Christopher's arms again--just like when he was a toddler!
Unfortunately, he was still strangely melded with Christopher's body. In the last two pictures, Christopher had tried to put Duncan down, with very strange results. Poor Duncan became hysterical and tried frantically to reach behind himself and cling to Christopher At this point, since the whole family was becoming decidedly frantic up there in the master bathroom, I decided that something must be done, so I tried the old trash-the-Sim trick and exited (saving) to the neighborhood.

When I re-entered the household, Christopher was again normal, but Duncan was not! He had obviously retained his child's body, but he definitely had not yet attained the AGE of a child! It was really rather endearing to watch Georgina lovingly cope with the strange mixture of toddler and little boy that Duncan had become. I watched this happen for quite some time before deciding that something must be done. I tried the delete-exit-return trick one more time, but the second picture here was taken after that (sigh). Poor little Duncan!

	So...I took my heart in my hands and turned on the testing cheats, searching for SOME way to get Duncan back to normal. I found that there was something like a "reset birthday" option, which I tried several times for Duncan with no results (from the mailbox). Then (actually by mistake) I shift-clicked on Duncan himself, and found a bunch MORE options that I had never seen before. Once more I made the decision to just TRY something. I figured I could always start playing the family over again, from scratch. So I chose the "reset family" option.
Suddenly a box appeared around Duncan (who was out on the front lawn at that time). As he crawled out of the the strange white box, I desperately left-clicked on him, and lo and behold, he had the grow-up option again! Wondering if he would suddenly turn into a deformed teen or something, I chose it, and BOING! Suddenly he was a normal little boy!!! Hooray! I have no idea what I was SUPPOSED to do with that box, so I just trashed it, and the family's life resumed normally, as I turned off the testing cheats once again. Here you see Duncan and Alexis playing on the sidewalk together. After all the furor died down, Christopher went to the phone and called a taxi, taking himself off to college as he had intended to do right after Duncan grew to child stage. He was very relieved that he didn't have to stay home and help care for little Duncan, now that there seemed to be no danger that Duncan would revert back to toddlerhood!

As I left the Snookers to their now-normal life, Remington was being the excellent father he'd always been, and Duncan and Alexis had enjoyed their first school day together. When next I visit them, Alexis will become a teen. It was the evening of her birthday, here. I certainly hope HER grow-up day is nowhere near as eventful as Duncan's was!

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