Chapter 61: Childhood x3

Brush brush brush.

Kimberly's favorite film is probably Lion King. Pssst look at Hawk's ears lol lol lol.

This radio has been playing Chinese, Paprika's favorite, since she died.

Holly's best friend is Rudy, who cannot concentrate on his homework because Zephram has picked this moment to drill in the yard.

"He thinks there's gnomes down there," Holly explains.

The triplets grow into children, assuring that the Archers will be feasting on cake until Nol's grandchildren are gray.

Hawk:

Kimberly:

Nol, the heir:

While Holly continues to sleep in the bed in the nursery, Paz goes through the trouble of clearing out a room upstairs for the triplets. Kimberly and Hawk set up dividers between their beds.

While Nol gets the other half of the room. She has a computer to keep her company.

Yes, it is Randi's computer from generation one.

Hoping to impress her mother, who has recently been granted the title of Mad Scientist, Kimberly paints a black hole.

"It's great artistic expression," Paz will say. "But real black holes don't look like that."

Chad adores the children.

Nol's love of books continues, though she is not the genius Holly is.

Books books books. The Archers own so many weird books.

Do your homework or Paz will set you on fire.

The collection of lawn flamingos is subject to SCIENCE.

The chairs are not safe either.

Kimberly is pretty sure she and her siblings are just another experiment. Nol reacts negatively to conspiracy theories, however, and this probably means she'll never be a good writer.

Paz has a schedule for the children. Breakfast at 7:15.

"Which one of you twerps ate my Snickers?"

No shoes, no shirt, NO SERVICE. Tribal types can be so rude.

Rudy + wooden duck.

 Paz hopes to inspire her children about how science can save the world.

Chad helps.

Nol has her own interests.

"Can I go to ComicCon?"

"Dad... can I go to ComicCon?"

"Sis! Don't talk about your stupid comics! She'll make us go to bed!"

Yep, Mom will send you to bed so she can attend parties. This party is at the Hill-Archer place, and...

...

ENEMY.

Alison is here because Julian Hill-Archer is the father of her son, Quincy, but Paz doesn't stop to get the story.

Oh, Paz. You got your butt kicked again.

Cake is an unwise choice. Kimberly should have chosen something with vegetables or fruit in it, like cobbler.

There are no female teenagers in town, but that doesn't mean there's no teenage romance.

Rudy's technophobia is the obstacle in this relationship.

Taylor Sargeant follows Hawk home from school for the first and last time. He's Dalma's son, you see, and she doesn't realize where he is.

He and Kim become fast friends, before the adults decide to quietly prevent further contact.

"I like sandals, even when it rains. I just take my socks off."

Though she had no friends as a child, Paz requires that her children make friends, rather than sit at home typing on the computer. So Nol follows Alice Sargeant home. She's Taylor's cousin, through their fathers.

"Dad," Kimberly interrupts, as Chad and Hawk play chess, "I know I'm just a science experiment."

A broken hot tub will not annoy future generations of Archers. Paz is making this sleek beauty unbreakable.

=)

After her embarrassing defeat, Paz decides to improve on her people-handling skills.

FOR SCIENCE AND GREAT JUSTICE.

How to deal with fire, by Zephram Archer.

Step 1: cry.

Step 2: dance around wildly.

Step 3: rely on child to save you.

"Dammit, Dad!"

Did dinosaurs brush their teeth? Zephram's bedtime stories keep the kids up at night, tossing and turning, until they must go to their ancestors to seek advice on these matters.

Nol is so going to write about this.

Kimberly's life is so unfair. Her mother is always telling her what to do.

"Do your homework! ... I mean go to bed!"

Paz is no longer a tweaker of the aquatic ecosystems. She leaves that to underlings, like Chad. But she does hope to someday stock her backyard pond with rare and exotic fish, and so much of her time is spent studying their behavior.

How to move objects with one's mind, by Zephram Archer.

 
Bonus pic: COOKING.

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Etc.: This entry kind of jolts from one subject to another. I was lazy because I wrote it once, then blogger decided to delete my entry and force me to start all over again.

And that was the triplets' entire childhood. Nol spent most of it glued to the computer, raising her writing skill by writing non-fiction books. I don't know how I didn't get a picture of it.

Thanks to Alice and Nol playing tag, I realized that there IS indeed a tag glitch that makes their friendship level continue to climb even when not interacting. =( I never realized before because the individuals playing tag were already best friends. This glitch is sucky since I don't feel like downloading a no-autonomous-tag mod. Not that I don't want my sims to have friends... it just feels like cheating.

Paz's lifetime wish was to become a creature-robot cross breeder, science career level 9. That's done. Zephram's is to master three skills. I have chosen painting, inventing and cooking. Painting is done. Inventing is nearly complete. Cooking lags behind, at level 7or 8. There's already a ton of food in the fridge, since the special cooking career fridge means things never go bad unless they're simply left out too long. I think.

I've never figured out what controls the fruit picked for cobblers and pancakes. Sacha always made pomegranate everything. Zephram is obsessed with limes, which is kind of gross. I may have to move all the limes out of the fridge and into someone's inventory to make him stop. x.x