We start off this week with Xerxes outside teaching Ginger to come here.



Maxx grew up and immediately challenge Ginger! Ginger don't put up with that shit. She's top dog in this house. 



Mint plays catch with Ratna Tan. 



Xerxes was promoted to Congressperson.  And, of course, he brought Kala Demento home with him.  I don't know why he constantly brings her home. Doesn't he work with anyone else?




Xerxes: "Oh, man, Kala is hot!"   
Alright, stop that right now. You have a wife. She has a husband. And you are not a romance sim. 




Speaking of Marylena;   POP!




This girl is still calling for Zazu every stinkin' night! She has moved on! Stop calling!



Xerxes teaches Maxx to Come here.  Xerxes does all his best dog training under cover of darkness. 



Catkin: So close and yet...so very, very  far.  



Okay, I know nannies are dumber then stumps but this one takes the cake. I so want to kill her off, really, I do. I submit the following  photo evidence that this nanny should give up her job and never ever come near another child ever again. 
We'll start right here. Nanny is outside (in the snow with no coat) playing fetch with Maxx. Dad is at work, mom is passed out in the bed because pregnancy is terrible on her, Teens are at school. While she's outside playing with the dogs where is the helpless toddler she's supposed to be watching?



Why she's safe in her crib, screaming her little lungs out. 



Catkin was getting very tired but, of course, the brain-dead nanny decides she needs to be fed first. Catkin was not agreeable with this and voiced her opinion very stridently.



She would not eat but the nanny was insistent on feeding her.  




In a fit of sudden inspiration Nanny takes her into the bathroom to use the potty and is dismayed when Catkin won't use it. 
I hope she deafens you, you bitch.



Well, if she doesn't have to pee she must be hungry!  So it's back to the kitchen. I turned the fridge around to keep her from pulling out bottle after bottle.  I would like to point out that Catkin's thought bubbles have been getting progressively redder, much like her energy bar. It was almost totally red by this time.  She finally passed out on the kitchen floor, right in front of that refridgerator.


 
I wish I could have had Marylena intervene but she was too busy sleeping in her food to be of much help. 





Thank god the girls can take care of her when they get home. Catkin's never been so happy to see another green face. 



Vesta: "And when the rocket was filled with all the evil nannies it blasted off into the night. But...they had all been fooled!
The rocket was not heading for the wonderous delights of Venus, but on a collision course with the sun!  The rocket crashed into the sun and all the evil nannies and the rocket were burnt to a crisp and the babies lived happily ever after. The End."
Catkin: "Me like story! Tell it again!"


Xerxes works on earning his charisma points for that next promotion.  "Recycle, recycle, recycle!"



Catkin finally grows up into a child. 



Catkin: "Finally! That woman can't touch me anymore!"
I'm with you on that one, Catkin. 



Marylena: POP! 
Xerxes: What did I miss? 



Catkin: "When the nanny comes back can I pop her in the head with a block?"
Marylena: "Um...I don't think that that's really a good idea, dear.  You have a little brother or sister coming soon and she'll still have to take care of it. I know she doesn't have many working brain cells, please don't kill off the few that still work?"
Catkin only has one nice point. I can't see her taking too much guff from other sims. 



With a little one on the way and their teenage years almost through it's time to send the twins packing. 



Vesta is the first to go.  She got 3 scholarships; the scholar's grant, the Bain-Gordon fellowship and the Young Entrepreneurs award. Not too shabby.



Mint had two...the scholar's grant and the Will Wright Genius Grant. All those hourse spent playing chess payed off. 
So the teens have left. They left on a Weds so I have until next Weds. with this family to get them through college. Okay.



I almost forgot that Xerxes sent the dogs to try for a puppies. Please to be giving me fur-babies?  Please?



Since Catkin now has a room all to herself she decided to redecorate.  The pink light adds just the perfect touch. 



Kala Demento is sort of a fixture in the house. She's always coming home with Xerxes. Of cours, Xerxes follows her home almost as much so I guess they're about even. 



Since she's always here it means she gets to see the next Galaxia child into the world along with the family. 
I'm so glad she's finally having this kid. Her needs plummit like hell when she's pregnant. 



It's another girl. Meet Fern Galaxia, Dads hair and skintone,  but mom's hair. You'd better not turn into a clone of your sister like the Brown girls did.



Xerxes: "Thank gods that's over."
Kala: "Why couldn't that be my green baby!"
Catkin: "Eeewwwwwwww!"



It snowed like crazy during the night and in the morning Catkin had a snow day. She didn't squander it either. 



She made an evil snowman.
"I wish he could come to life and stab that nasty nanny."



Then she greeted Moonshine.
"I just want her to walk in the house and cross the nannies path. Maybe she's superstitious about black cats."
Yeah...right.



She got to pet the penguin...



And got growled at by a passing wolf named...Lucky? Who names these things, anyway?



She even got to see the girl who keeps calling for Zazu who doesn't live here anymore!  Get a clue, girlie.



All in all it was a day well spent. 



I noticed something while she was outside all day.  mail-persons don't get coats in the winter it seems. They're still doing their rounds in their shorts. His knees will get frosty.



Ginger had one puppy.
His name is Cloves. 




The puppy went out in the snow and was almost lost under it! 




I realized afterwards that this probably won't count as "raising" a pet but Xerxes sells the puppy to Hiram.



He was quite willing to take the puppy. 



I could almost die from the cute. 



Catkin plays catch with dad. 




She plays a little rough.  



Catkin: "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to throw it that hard."  
Yeah, right.



They played for quite awhile and she kept winging them at him. 



Xerxes finally threw a few hard ones back at her. Maybe he finally got tired of being hit with the ball. 



Catkin: "Hey, com'on! That hurt!'
Xerxes: "Sorry. I didn't mean to throw it that hard."



He looks so sincere, doesn't he?  



Xerxes got a plankton named after him. How cool is that?  Plus he got 2 charisma points and two logic points. 
He's home just in time because it's time for his youngest daughter to become a toddler. 



Fava stopped by and he and Xerxes played some catch too.



My goodness! Look at all that hair! 



That's a bit better. 
She's a Virgo neat 10, outgoing 1, active 8, playful 10 and nice 3.



Marylena starts right in with the skill building.  
Wait a minute! I thought she had black eyebrows! Why does she have brown hair? Must check into that. 





Fava actually put her to bed when she got tired.  Aww...



I'm not sure when he showed up or why but he seems to have followed Fava from college.  I did not know Fava  needed a chaparon to visit his own house. 



As the week winds down Xerxes and Marylena get comfy in the bed. 



Hey, quit that! Didn't we end the last update this way? Xerxes do you really need to have more kids? Didn't you hear me when I said pregnacies are murder on her?  Guess they're not listening. Figures. 
Actually, I think I'll end this update with a couple of pictures of Vesta and Mint at college. 



Vesta, what on earth are you wearing? I don't think so. We're going shopping. 



Mint came off a little bit better.  Does orange go with green skin?  I think I need to take them both shopping. 


Next update will probably be back to the college kids for a bit then on to the brown family.