Smith Household Round 1
Pollination Tech#9 Smith
Aspiration: Family/Knowledge
LTW: Marry Off 3 Children
OTH: Film & Lit
ACR Preference: Straight
Jenny Smith
Aspiration: Family/Knowledge
LTW: Reach Golden Anniversary
Job: Nurse (Medicine Level 3)
OTH: Arts & Crafts
ACR Preference: Straight
Johnny Smith
Aspiration: Popularity/Family
LTW: Become Captain Hero
OTH: Fitness (discovered this round)
ACR Preference: Straight
Jill Smith
Aspiration: Grow Up
LTW: None yet
OTH: Nature
We start our round with the most normal family in Strangetown, with Jenny discovering a new recipe in the the newspaper.
Whilst Jill skips on the back deck.
Johnny takes full advantage of the new pool slide.
And discovers his One True Hobby is fitness.
That may be the belly flop to end all belly flops. Poor PT#9!
He quickly recovers and gets on with a truly wholesome game of Marco Polo. This is also the point I realise the kids should be in school, and Jenny should be at work. So they all head off very late, taking quite a hit to their school/work performance.
Once returned from work, Jenny tells PT#9 about her day, I wonder which doctor she’s complaining about?
Johnny needs another body skill point for a scholarship, so he works on that any free chance he has.
And PT#9 and Jenny get working on that third child.
Looks like they were successful.
PT#9 makes breakfast, I hadn’t realised quite how well camoflagued he is in there!
Johnny is hard at work before the sun rises.
Jill: So do we have to go to school today?
PT#9: *skips out perfectly cooked pancake in shock*
Once the kids head off to school, PT#9 makes a less painful entry to the pool.
Go Johnny!
That half day really tanked Johnny’s grades, I’m not sure he’ll manage to get back to an A/A+ before he leaves for University the next day,
Jill has managed to get back up to at A+ in one day though.
Jenny works on her needed skill points to become am Intern. Because of course all nurses dream of becoming doctors, it’s not like we go to university to get a degree in Nursing...
PT#9 works on those logic points, these Sim activities still fascinate him.
I think this shot was mostly just to show of Jill’s room, which I was hugely proud of.
A family meal at which they discuss how close to their next age transitions Johnny and Jill are.
Then some quality sibling time.
Before it’s time for homework.
Jill makes a start on hers, before realising she might need help.
Fortunately Dad was close by to help his baby girl out, studying skill achieved.
Jenny has her first pregnancy pop.
And she and PT#9 have some grown-up bonding time whilst the kids sleep upstairs.
I’m pretty sure this pic was only to show that Johnny has horses on his pjs, alas not white ones though.
Jenny is worried about how the kids will take news that there’s a baby on the way.
Johnny is so close to achieving that 8th body skill point, and the Fitness Hobby Master feels entitled to interrupt him.
Yay we got the A+ in time after all!
Time to apply for those scholarships!
Those will certainly help him out for his first semester.
I decide Jill will do the nice thing.
And her classmates are ungrateful little shits.
Johnny heads off to University, with Jenny waddling out just in time to say goodbye.
When Jill gets home she’s upset about her classmates picking on her, and for Johnny leaving without saying goodbye. So PT#9 takes her to the newly opened Out Of This World Pet Store and Park. She has a lovely time playing with the puppy in the pen, but that is not the reason for their visit.
They are there to acquire the only thing missing from their perfect TV family ideal, the family pet. PT#9 has done substantial research and decides they need a Golden Retriever and he will not be talked out of the name.
Rover immediately proves that he’s an idiot, despite his non-doofus status above.
PT#9 acquires an accessory for Rover and then they head home.
I think PT#9 may be regretting his purchase already.
Not the porch seat!
Jenny rushes out to defend her furniture and to start training the dumb mutt.
She can’t stay mad about PT#9′s impulsiveness for long though, Rover does have a fuzzy wuvvy tummy after all...
His bowl had to be green, I mean what other colour was it going to be in this house?
PT#9 bonds with his mutt.
And Jenny has her second pregnancy pop.
I’m a bit worried about Jill being crushed by Rover.
PT#9 makes sure that Johnny’s exercise mat doesn’t get lonely, or perhaps he’s trying to stay in good shape so he’ll see the new baby grow up.
No Rover No!!!
Jenny and PT#9 have a quiet breakfast together, the house feels so empty without Johnny.
There are really no lengths that the Hobby Masters will not go to hand out those membership cards!
Rover further bonds with his new family.
Jill and PT#9 become besties just in time...
As Jill has her age transition.
Aspiration: Knowledge/???
LTW: Marry Off 3 Children (this will get rerolled I think)
Thanks to becoming besties with her dad at the last possible minute, all is good for Jill with her growing up in Platinum.
A quick makeover, which she’s very happy with.
And that’s is for the Smiths this round.