Hello, and welcome to Toddler Mania take 2: Colors. So, you're wondering what happened to take one, huh? Well.. we may get back to that tragic story another time, but for now, here's take 2 for your entertainment.
The Colors family, Trey and his oh so lovely toddlers. Yep, you've counted right. There's seven of them. And yes, I know he is only one. It may be true torture, but I just followed the
rules, you know?
The whole family in front of their new home. Trey's taking Red in first.
Hey, I know you all want his attention right now, but he can only carry one of you at a time. Oh, I see.. it started to rain.
Toddlers Gray and Green enjoys Seasons.
After greating the welcome vagon, Trey had to run to the bathroom to get ahead of Marianne Rävsvans ('Foxtail' in English).
Then back to the chores. Little Pink did so not want to be pottytrained.
Several toddlers tried to get the welcome wagon's attention, but they didn't want to split up, and these two ended up with Green in his room.
Ocean is getting her share of Trey's love and affection.
Sun felt neglected, and complained loudly. It takes so long time to put them to bed, and they wake up again so quickly you barley noticed they actually went to sleep!
Are you feeling better now with your diaper changed, Pink?
Gray is up next in the tickling que.
Ebony and Green fighting over a bottle.
Green lost and cried. I don't know what was on Red's mind. Trey probably. That guy sure is Popular.
Just one of those "I would like this wall to move, please?"-moments.
Ebony in another bottlefight, this time with Gray. Pink seem to have an invisible bottle, but then Ocean got their attention on the most important thing.
"Why oh why can't we climb the stairs and reach our toilet? You know that's all we live for, don't you?"
Let's pause and zoom out of the whining for a while. Yes.. that's relaxing..
Trey bathing Red.
The maid is a slow worker and the toddler's getting restless. Trey greeted the stray that stood on the porch for a long time, barking and wanting to sniff the toddlers... sure, you can do that. Only, once greeted, the stray dog headed straight for the couch.
Green just wanted to cuddle, but the stray would have nothing of that.
So folks.. don't invite strays, if you don't want a harder challenge.
Neighbour Cindy Brats talking to Pink. Actually, they're having a party. I was thinking that Trey would like to befriend all his toddlers, being a popularity sim, but actually all he wanted was to make friends with Marianne, meet new people and have a party. So half way through this challenge - let's party, and say we call this a pottytraining party, shall we? To be honest I believe Trey influenced Cindy to talk to Pink. She doesn't seem to be very fond of toddlers in general.
Treys need for a party actually made aspiration points enough to buy me two stations of Smart milk and shot him into platina. And wow, did that help..
Pottytrained Ebony, Pink, Red and Sun.
And half an hour before the time was due, this cop came and told us we had way too much fun, she was ending this party right now.
The guests went home of course, but the rest of us partied on.. Green and Gray pottytrained. I missed out on Oceans pottytrained picture.
Teaching Green how to talk.
Back to the routine, but it's getting a lot easier when they've all learned to use the potty!
Sun in the bath or sunbathing? ;)
Trey taking time teaching Red to talk, here they seem to debate the nanny's habit of dragging out bottles whenever something else needed to be done, be that putting toddlers to bed, bathing them or whatever.
Well done Red, you've learnt your lesson!
A drop of water in the ocean.. oh, sorry.. A small Ocean in the bathtub.
Typical maid-picture. She would leave a pile of garbage on the floor or on the grass outside, protest and proclaim that she was out of there.. Marianne was invited over again and influenced to help with the cleaning.
Wow.. this time the nanny actually helped bathing Red while Trey took care of Ebony.
Marianne helped out with more than the cleaning, or did she broaden the meaning of 'cleaning'? In Toddler Mania take 2 I've learnt my lesson and downloaded the
ME_MultiPainting hanging in the background.
Time for a commercial break. Ebony is helping with showing off Trey's profile. I named him after the creator of this challenge, figuring that if he came up with the rules, he could live with them and noone else would have to. I have no idea what Trey looks like, but I do know he has a nice voice. (You can listen to it in Rachels TS2Challenges
podcast about toddlermania on Talkshoe.com. I did. :) )
Back to the challenge. Teaching Sun to walk.
That's a girl! Hey, you shine like the sun up there.
Off to learn Gray how to talk, and it seems Marianne is back, learning Sun how to fly?
Trey found another best friend in Pink, although all he wanted was to be best friends with Marianne.. Go figure. He has all these lovely toddlers around, and he wants to befriend the two negative-bolt girls of the welcome wagon.
Ebony mastering the skill of putting * one foot in front of the other, and then the other foot in front of the first, repeat from *.
Oh, yeah.. didn't I mention it? We're having a birthday party this time.. I gave in to Treys wants and invited all he knew to a party at Thursday 12:35. Don't all people start pillowfights at parties? All sims do, as you already know. Well, at least when they're old enough.
Something tells me that this isn't really what these ladies expected by the invitation to a party.
Ebony really needs to take a shower... and I gave in, at least she learnt two skills out of three...
... our first toddler became a child, growing up as a platinum toddler. It looks like Marianne knew better than Cindy what to expect of a "birthday party".
We got another station of Smart milk by 15:40, but teaching Sun to talk while toddlers growing up was too hard to do. After the next picture, Trey gave up trying and tickled Sun to platinum instead and told her to grow up.
Green is our second platinum toddler growing up to child.
While Sun waited for the guests to acknowledge her transition, the time passed the 18:00 mark and Red and Ocean transitioned. I believe they were both platina at the time.
Sun waited for so long that she went down to gold before growing up as number five.
Trey got Pink and Gray into platina as well and they didn't grow up, so Trey went for the third bottle from the third station of smart milk. That's when Pink and Gray chose to transition. No more bottles..
Hey Trey, what's up? Oh, I know your toddlers all grew up quite nicely.. shouldn't you be happy with them instead of missing those toddler years? Oh.. I'm sorry.. It's your party. It started nice, but then he just couldn't keep it all up.
So, what's next? Do you think they have footballs in Vampire Village? Green is spontaneously hanging out with Ocean and Sun.
Growing up is hard.. Ebony took a nap while all the children got their baths (I should have added a shower or a wardrobe, or put in another wall between the two tubs!).
Ocean, meet
Inge's Teleporter Shrub. Shrub, meet Ocean.
Ocean learned how to use the potty and how to talk, and got herself 7 points in charisma.
Red learned how to use the potty and talk as well, and was so close to maxing out on charisma! Well, nine skill points isn't bad either. Quite charming!
Gray learned to use the potty, talk and got 8 charisma points.
Sun learned to use the potty and walk and got 7 points in charisma.
Trey continued to pout over his partyfailure and protested loudly about having to empty all of those potties. Why don't we just sell them full and buy new ones? Because that would be cheating, now wouldn't it? We want this house to be nice and clean and fully furnished for our next attempt (if I ever get to that..). Well, I may just give in to you and buy you a new set of fridges, you don't want to buy them anyway. Now go back emptying those potties, we've still got three kids to go.
Ebony got pottytrained, learned to walk and earned 7 charisma points.
Hey Trey, did you see the news on that family where the toddlers got to play with blocks instead of rabbit heads? Boy, did that seem strange! Ain't it just the strangest thing you've ever heard of?
Pink learned how to use the potty and earned 7 points in charisma.
And finally. Green was pottytrained, learned how to talk and got 9 charisma points.
He also got to carry out the last bag of garbage before he and lastly Trey left this lot. All the children were put up to adoption by the bush, and Trey is now a Townie in Vampire Village. I think I need to evict some old families in this neighborhood and start something new sometime soon.. I miss some of these children already! And Trey too. He did really well. I'm proud of him. :)
Scoring:Toddler skills: 12 x 3 pts = 36 pts
Grew up well: 7 x 3 pts = 21 pts
Skill points: 54 x 0,5 pts = 27 pts
Age in platinum: 6 x 3 pts = 18 pts
Used painting: 6 x -2 pts = -12 pts
Hiring nanny: 2 x -2 pts = -4 pts
Total of 86 points.
Nanny didn't pee herself this time, Trey didn't pass out, no sim therapist, no deleted bottles and no moveobjects-cheating. I did not try the advanced scoring.
