Season 5: The Mimoza Family 2

Mimoza Family
Bob Mimoza: Male Adult | Popularity | Aries | Have 20 Simultaneous Pet Best Friends
Carla Mimoza: Female Adule | Popularity | Leo | Have 20 Simultaneous Best Friends
Luke Mimoza: Male Toddler | Leo

Last time: When we visited the Mimoza's last season Carla was pregnant and gave birth to a little boy named Luke. Later in the round, a birthday party was held for Luke and he grew up into a toddler. Toddler skilling ensued. Parties were had, some promotions were achieved and that was about it.  

So when we first open the game and pull up this family the family portrait is the same as it was at the start of last round...as in Carla still shows as pregnant and toddler Luke is nowhere to be seen.  Worried that I had somehow not saved this house after having already blogged about it I hesitantly went into the house.  There stood Carla, not pregnant but in different clothes than I had given her before, Bob looking like normal, and Luke sitting outside in the front yard.

I scan the house and discovery no crib, no changing table, no rabbit head, no potty chair, and no easel are anywhere to be found.  It's like anything associated with the last update was gone, except for the sims themselves.  Then I notice the season is showing the start of summer, which I'm also 100% sure was the season it was last time.  This should be the 3rd season in this house, making it winter. Everything else looks normal.  LTW's are correct, aspirations are correct, jobs are correct...so I am not sure what happened but we will keep a close eye out on this. This consequently means pictures were lacking slightly because I was checking out everything, a lot.

We start out with an obviously not pregnant Carla sitting down to finish teaching little Luke how to talk.  He is resistant to learning and that makes him mom very sad.

 It's Saturday, somehow, again it's like a whole season was lost, but they don't go to the lake.  I'm too scared to leave the house.  So instead I just have Carla leave.  I've decided she and Bob need cell phones, so out she heads to the "mall" and grabs the phones, then some groceries and comes right back. Everything seems normal, but Carla shouldn't be in this green top (although I do like it.)

Bob, anxious to get started on his LTW since he is 8 days from being an elder, greats Cymmi who wants Bob to play.  Bob plays with Cymmi, feeds the dog treats and makes very good friends with Cymmi, who is adopted into the family that very afternoon.

Later that night another dog, Roxi, comes by.  This is a female dog to Cymmi's male and I think it's possible they could make cute puppies together.  So Bob is out making friends but didn't get high enough to adopt Roxi yet.  They are friends though.

 Bob's brother and sister-in-law, Todd and Tess come over and spend time with Bob.  Tess works in the same career as Bob and she is over all the time anyway.  They discuss kids (remember Todd and Tess have a little girl that just grew into a child during this season) and enjoy dinner.

Cymmi checks out the youngest member of this family, Luke, and seems to like him.  Luke feels the same way and reaches out to Cymmi.  Cymmi does oblige and nuzzles Luke a little making both of them happy indeed.

As I was getting Luke ready for his birthday and preparing his parents to call over family and friends Luke decides he doesn't want a big party for his birthday and would rather grow up, alone, in his room.  I didn't even realize it was late enough for this to happen to him. Luckily TS2 sims don't consider it a "missed" birthday.  He's a cute little boy, taking more after the Mimoza side of the family then his mom's.

Luke really wants to make a friend, and since his aunt Tess is over he talks to her and talks to her.  Sadly they never do become friends even though on Luke's side the relationship is up over 70 points.  What had Tess so upset with Luke about?  He was a baby.

After school the next day Luke watches some TV while he waits for his dad to come home.  Sure enough, Bob had Tess in tow once again, it makes sense they would carpool, she does live right across the street, and while Tess entertains herself Bob helps Luke with his homework.

The dog, Cymmi, is starting to smell and put everyone off so we have Carla bathe him when she gets home, and we buy a new bathtub/shower combo for the purpose of washing the dog.  Funny thing I noticed randomly throughout this play is Carla typically acts normally, but on random occasions, she waddles as though she is still pregnant.  After the bath everyone continues to complain about Cymmi's smell too, even though his hygiene is showing as normal.

Both Carla and Bob manage a single promotion this season, which brings in so much needed money.  Especially if Bob is going to make a run for it on getting those pet friends soon.  Time will tell if he makes it. Luke wanted some skill points, and he was hungry so we had him start working on cooking with the kid stove.  He isn't doing great yet.

As the season draws to a close we find Tess once again came home with Bob and she and Carla sit and catch up.  Carla is the one in the knight's armor, she will need to get some more skills before she gets another promotion, same with Bob.  They started working on them, but it was slow going this season.

Looking at the other houses, and the university round I had just finished, everything else looks completely normal.  Seasons are all correct, sims are with their correct families, in their correct clothing, and while I didn't go into any of the houses specifically, I saw nothing to give me pause that any other house had a weird occurrence like this one.  I guess we will see when I get back to the start of the round after a final university update coming next.


RUNNING SCORE:
Previous Points: +88
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NEW SCORE: +88
(This score doesn't include any of the finishing scores so we can keep a running tab.)