Gabriel Raptor Toddlerizes
Part I: Up in the air and down again

Now we'll look at little Gabriel Raptor's End of Babyhood Birthday. Gabriel's the only child of single Romance Mom Gina, and his birthday is sort of the other end of the universe from the bustling Family warmth of the Danvers Twins (here in Neighborhood One we're all about Diversity).

He and his Mom greatly enjoyed his babyhood.


Best Friends
They had lots of time together; she had enough vaction and maternity leave that I don't think she went to work once between conception and toddlerhood.

Gina had a little birthday party, inviting her Mom and Gabriel's father over for the Big Event.


Hurrah!
I forget exactly why we had the party outside.


Second to last moments of babyhood
"Are you sure about this, Mom?"


Last moments of babyhood
No turning back now.


First moments of toddlerhood
Hey, overalls!

In the next episode: Uppies!

Gabriel Raptor Toddlerizes
Part II: Gramma Sally

After a quick cuddle, Gina put Gabriel down and went inside for something. Dawson seemed a little uncomfortable about the whole "son" thing.


"Uppies, Dada!"
"Um, well, nice to meet you kid."

Sally was also a little uncertain at first...


"Uppies, Gramma!"
"Uh, it's been a really long time."

... but she warmed to the little creature quickly.


"Gramma gramma gramma!"
"Just call me Sally, pumpkin."

Gina and Dawson were inside, working on raising the party score.


"Mommy and Daddy are playing!"
I thought it was funny that Sally (not a controllable on this lot) turned to look in the window like that.

Sally could tell Gabriel was tired, so she took him inside and tucked him in.


"Time to sleep."
So sweetly autonomous of her! Who says Romance Sims don't like kids?

Gabriel Raptor Toddlerizes
Part III: The party ends, and life begins

Back in the living room, Gina and Dawson were still playing.


"That's my daughter."
Another of those meaningful glances right into the camera.

It was a good party overall, although Gina had to hit the coffee machine just to stay awake to the end.


"Whew, everyone's finally gone."
I nearly put her into the energizer again, in fact, but she made it to bed okay.

All too soon, Gabriel was up and ready to start his first day of toddlerism (toddlarity?).


"maamaamaamaaaaaaaaaa!"
At least she got a little sleep.


Rescued.

And here are mother and son, immersed in the quotidian.


"And then the teddy bear said..."
That teddy-bear book sure is popular.

Will Gina finally go back to work, and leave Gabriel to the dreaded nannies? Or will she quit her job for awhile? (She can afford it.) Or move Dawson in? Or who knows what? Tune in later on for millions more unnecessary pictures!

DC

miros1 wrote:

It's great that you're getting your missing chapters back online!

Tx very! I have them all over on my own site (recreated from local files, the Google cache, and my memory), and now that the BBS is back I'm dumping the missing ones back in. I'm about done for the night now... *8)

DC

miros1 wrote:

dmchess wrote: Her baby has a father regardless. *8) At the moment she has no plans to tie Dawson down (since that would tend to tie her down as well, after all); she grew up fine without any given male constantly in the house, so she's not worried about Gabriel in that regard. Who's gonna teach him to pee standing up?

I'm sure they'll work it out. *8) He'll probably have a reasonable supply of male role models. Or not, as the story unfolds...

DC

Sally Raptor: Halfway Home
a love story
Parts 1-4

As documented previously, Sally Raptor was the second Sim that I created, and I made her Romance pretty much without knowing what I was getting into. Since she's just recently attained a significant milestone toward her life's ambition I thought this would be a good time for a bit of a retrospective on her life (and particularly on her loves).

She showed her Romance colors at once, by wanting to kiss and make out and fall in love and all like that there. The fact that her female neighbors were about eighty-leven times as attractive as her male neighbors (in my completely unbiased opinion) meant that she ended up with some very close lady friends to start with.


Sally's first love: Ivy Copur
The adult Ivy Copur, of course; not the teenager by the same name.


And her second love: Christy Stratton
I hadn't discovered the snapshot size and quality settings yet, sadly; and it took me awhile to get in the habit of taking pictures with walls up and a little thought for composition.

Sally burned dinner badly enough to start a fire one night, and the fireman turned out to be a very nice man.


Third time lucky: Mitch Lawson
Eleanor and Gina's father, eventually. (Eight thousand Aspiration points for that "Woohoo with three different Sims" want, I think.)

Andrea Hogan, another sweet local woman, completed the quadrumvirate that kept Sally happy for a nice long stretch of Sim time, as her daughters grew up and she reached the top of her profession.


Sally's fourth love: Andrea Hogan
Andrea eventually fell in love with Sally's daughter Gina also; we like Andrea.

Sally Raptor: Halfway Home
a love story
Parts 5-7

Time passed. Sally's daughter Eleanor fell in love with Kaylynn the maid, who moved in and then later moved out. Sally and Kaylynn were good friends while Kaylynn was living in the house; after she moved out she came back often to visit, and they became more than friends.


Love number five: Kaylynn Langerak
All this sharing of lovers has of course led to some interesting Sim-management puzzles for me; I've generally succeeded pretty well, knock wood.

Somewhere in here (when I installed University) Sally realized that her real ambition in life revolved, not around her family or her career, but around love. She wanted lovers by the handful, by the score. (Exactly a score, in fact.) Five was nice, but ten would be better, and twenty would be heaven.

Some longtime casual acquaintances began to become less casual.


Love number six: Melissa Fancey
This is why my weblog readers tease me about Hot Girl On Girl Action. What can I say?


Love number seven: Goopy GilsCarbo
I think it was seeing him in his work clothes rather than those awful shorts that got her interested in the good Dr. G.

Sally Raptor: Halfway Home
a love story
Parts 8-10

Sally was running short on adult neighbors; fortunately her daughter Gina had made many good friends in college, and introduced her to some fascinating young people.


Love number eight: Forrest Jones
A little Mrs. Robinson cradle-robbing going on here. Doesn't she look happy, though?


Love number nine: Allegra Gorey
Normally I try to keep Raptors away from people who are in other relationships, and Allegra has Castor Nova back at SSU. But somehow a lesbian affair with an older woman seemed in character for her; she's edgy.

And finally, or at least most recently, pretty blonde Jan Telleman, who has been wandering in and out of lots in Neighborhood One since the beginning without really touching anyone's life, dropped in one afternoon.


Reminiscing about school.
They actually didn't get along at first, but no one can resist Sally for long.

Within a day or two, Sally was halfway to her life's ambition.


And love number ten: Jan Telleman
Half way home.

So there's Sally, my second and still my favorite Sim. Will she manage to find ten more loves before her supply of Elixir runs out? (As if I'd ever let that happen.)

I have this strange feeling that I've already posted this here, but I don't think I have. If I have, feel free to point it out and I'll do something about it. Odd things, memories...

DC

That Sally is one busy lady! It's quite interesting to see who she will bed next. Has she met the mailman yet? How about that deliveryman? Gotta love a man in uniform!

-SCG

dmchess wrote:

I have this strange feeling that I've already posted this here, but I don't think I have. If I have, feel free to point it out and I'll do something about it. Odd things, memories...

It's on your TS2 stories page, but I don't think you've posted it here. Still a good read.

SimCityGallery wrote:

That Sally is one busy lady! It's quite interesting to see who she will bed next. Has she met the mailman yet? How about that deliveryman? Gotta love a man in uniform!

*8) No one's managed to really get to know the mailperson or deliverypersons yet. (The mailperson is sort of risky, like the maid, because e comes uninvited every day, and who knows what might be going on on the lot at the time. And I'm always so annoyed by the delivery persons' customer-avoidance patterns that I don't end up talking to them.) But Sally definitely likes Mitch's uniform! *8) She was sad that she failed to interfact with the attractive cop that time one of her daughters got caught out after curfew. (John Danvers is really good (although completely platonic) friends with the repair lady; Arcadia something I think.)

And unlike her elder daughter, Sally's LTW actually doesn't involve bedding (although her short-term wants often do): it's all about the Love, Baby! *8)

Nihale199 wrote:

It's on your TS2 stories page, but I don't think you've posted it here. Still a good read.

Thanks, and thanks!

Love number eleven, by the way, looks like it's going to be Brittany Upsnot. And Sally's thinking of asking Gina to introduce her to some nice professors...

DC

Wow! How does Sally keep track of 'em all?




Better get her a Day-Timer.

Greg wrote:

Wow! How does Sally keep track of 'em all? Better get her a Day-Timer.

Yeah, there are lots of times in my life that I'd really like to have a little "relationships" panel on my own heads-up display! *8)

And I'm not Romance, or even Popularity...

DC

WOW!!! Sally's one busy lady!

Nancy wrote:

WOW!!! Sally's one busy lady!

*8) She's been alive for quite awhile now; the pictures tell a very compressed version of the story. (Wish there was a way to find out how many days a Sim has _really_ been alive, as opposed to the virtual Elixir-adjusted age; is there?)

DC