Today and Yesterday ... and TODDLERS!

So yesterday's entry was all about one of my favorite tv shows because it ended and I finally put on my big girl panties and watched the end... and cried....

So I'm going to share yesterday's pictures, and today's ....

So on Tuesday (the 10th) I mentioned how Nathan got his dinosaur hat taken away for being naughty.  He didn't sleep most of the night and we still sent him to school.  Well he's went to school yesterday too, and was saying he wasn't feeling well.  (Of course he NEVER does in the morning ::: cough cough fake cough :::: so there is that...)  But here he is in his current favorite hat...  and his unhappy face...

Had to get some pictures of Kaedyn too - he refused to smile...  ha ha ha ha ...

Time to homeschool the teenager ... who stops to pet the kitty - and the kitty put her paw on him like she owned him.

There is still this going on.  Today especially it's hurting really bad - THROBBING ...  it's horrible...  so I have it wrapped up tight today and then ice piled on top of it too ...

So .... Here is Noah - working on his workbook in the window seat (usually he's not that far away from me because usually I need to explain things to him ten times until he understands it.  So I was really rather proud of him today.  It might sound silly but it's kind of a big thing.  It didn't last all day, but it was good!)

And then this happened.  It's funny because I posted on my FB this video of a cat sitting on a kids homework sleeping while the kid is trying to do their homework, and moving the cat around to see parts of their homework and the cat moving back.  It's funny.   Well, Kinsleigh started doing this to Noah...  I couldn't stop laughing.  When he did come over and leaned on the bed, Kinsleigh decided he needed some puppy mouth to mouth.  Ha ha ha ha

So I decided to watch a few movies yesterday ....   First up was Bridget Jones's Baby ...  which I love the Bridget Jones movie series.  So I was looking forward to this.  Finally got to see it and I loved it.  It's very true to Bridget, she's grown up a bit ... but still very her.  Of course I just love saying Mr. Darcy.... and I vowed that I am going to start calling my husband Mr. Darcy... but then I wonder, is he the Bridget Jones Mr. Darcy or the Pride and Prejudice Mr. Darcy???  LOL  ... I was a bit sad to see Huge Grant's character killed off in the beginning of the movie.  But McDreamy joining the cast was awesome!

I hadn't even HEARD of The Hollars ...  but it's a sad bit of a movie.   Mom ends up collapsing in the beginning and ended up in the hospital, she had a seizure and ended up on the bathroom floor with a curling iron burning her wrist.  So they find out she has a brain tumor.  It's the journey of the family from finding out to the day of surgery and after.  It's sad, it's sad but the ending is good.  And of course I watch all of (most of) Anna Kendrick's movies cuz I love her, which is why I ended up watching this one.  It's a good one.  It hurts though if you have been touched by cancer - have a loved one who has had it - and I've been touched by it in my life a bit much.  My high school best friend's mom had breast cancer, she beat it - kicked it's butt ... but it later came back and she didn't beat it.  Then there is my ex-MIL who had a brain tumor much like the mom in the movie.  She found out about it and a few months later died from it.  It was horrible.   Then there was my sister who kicked a super rare cancer's ASS and she will continue to rock remission!  Plus some other's in our life.

And then DB and I watched Jason Bourne which is one of his favorite series.  It was good.  Pretty good.  I didn't ask him his thoughts on it - probably should have.  Ha!  Regardless I didn't like the death that happened in the beginning of it.  Well sorta beginning.  Early middle?   At one point there was an epic fight going on with Jason and Mr. Assassin... and it was a silent fight (for most of it) and I was making comments ...  "This could be an old silent movie." ... it was awkward.  "I mean who fights and doesn't talk smack?" ...  "YOU COULD HAVE SAID TAKE THAT BLOOD BOOB HEAD!" ...  Oye... seriously ...  "SAY SOMETHING!!" ....  and then they finally start talking smack.  Sheesh...  

My pretty Alyvia and Marshmellow had his back to me for most of the day....

And then today ... LOL ....

 My morning (or last night) started out much like the other night - with pretty much no sleep!  Nathan woke up at about 2am and couldn't get back to sleep.  He was coughing every 30 seconds - literally!  It seemed like he would just get done with a coughing fit and another one would happen.  ALL NIGHT LONG ...  then he threw up when DB was taking Bubba to school....  and after he did that, Nate crashed because he just didn't have anymore energy.  So I went to sleep too.  I think I slept for two or three hours, and then another hour during the morning.  He'd been complaining about a sore throat (both boys have been, and Cal too - Cal's voice is going.) ... so we called him in sick today to school and kept him home.  Oh and he had a low grade fever.

Jaxson came in and here and usually he lays on the bed with me.  Him and our two cats keep me company - but today he went and laid over on Kaedyn's bed in the window seat.  Awwww ...

Nathan perked up this afternoon and was eating popsicles for his sore throat, and then later he was getting up and dancing.  HA HA.... yeah, he's feeling better.  YAY!!!  The only bad thing is, he has been taking over my laptop.  Um.... it's mine dude!?!?   But then he cries cuz his tablet is dead and he wants to watch YouTube.  (Thank you Autism!)

His favorite thing to watch?  Weird "Top 10" videos.  Some of them are gross, some are scary, some are stupid, some are funny ..... but sometimes I really have to keep on top of him with some of the crap he watches.  What I really don't like is the videos he watches for Minecraft or what not, where there is a lot of swearing ...

I mean, he gets enough exposure being around my potty mouth - he doesn't need more exposure.  *snort*

It looked really nice outside today.

So I checked the weather .... still pretty cold out!  LOL

but the HIGHLIGHT of my day ...  (drum roll) ...

SIMS 4 FINALLY has TODDLERS!!!  OMG ...... OMG .......... OMG ..... (cannot hold the excitement!!!)

So I got on and played for the first time since before Halloween ...  lol....

I am currently doing a generations thing.  Where you start with a SIM ... and you start a family, and all the babies have names that start with one letter of the alphabet.  (Unless they are adopted, in that case, they keep their names they had.)  I've been working on this same family since I started playing SIMS 4.  I'm only on the 2nd Generation anyway.  Again - I haven't played much ... mostly because I just REALLY REALLY REALLY don't like the game not having toddlers.  That's one of the things I absolutely love in the game.  I can't have anymore babies, LOL, but I can have and raise SIMS babies!  HA HA HA ....

So I hadn't planned on getting on and playing today, even after seeing the announcement.  But I ended up getting on anyway - cuz I really wanted to check it out.

Before I share some of my screenshots though, I have to say - they have been promoting the hell out of the fact that Vampires are coming to SIMS 4 (or did?) ... but I don't care about that.  They've been promoting that for awhile now!  Then all of a sudden today it was like BAM! Have TODDLERS in today's update!!  There was no pre-announcement that I saw ....of course I might have totally missed it but it was like vampires, vampires, vampires, vampires, vampires, BAM TODDERLS, vampires, vampires, vampires.......

But notice that the graphic for the TODDLERS is the SIMS 4 Adults, in Toddler form! LOL ... this is AWESOME!  Ha ha ha ...

Okay, So I got on and my current head of the household, Alyvia (yes same as my cat, I love the name) .... she had twin girls, Bella (red hair) and Bekah (black hair) ...  and they were babies, so I went ahead and aged them up to toddlers.

Here are the twins, as babies....

So I aged them up and right away you get to pick a toddler trait for them.  Here are the options....  Charmer, Inquisitive, Fussy, Angelic, Wild, Silly, Clingy and Independent  (not the best pics, taken with my phone from my laptop screen) 

So I picked Inquisitive for Bella who got aged up first..... and Independent for Bekah 

This is before I hit the dresser and made them cute.  I actually had to age them up twice, something happened and I did their room and aged them up, did the plan outfit, came out and had a glitch or something and the game reloaded with them being babies again and everything I had just done was gone.  So I had to do it all twice.  Ha!

They start out walking, they don't crawl at all, they are super wobbly walkers.  As they get better with their "movement" they walk better, and end up running.

So I made the girls cute, and started to play ...  they have toddler beds to sleep in and they get get up on the furniture, they go up and down the stairs ... which was a shock to me.  I found Bekah upstairs once, figured someone took her up there and left her up there, and later found out that they could go up the stairs!

The do this fun "play" with the toddlers where they spin them around, toss them in the air, turn them upside down and put them on their backs like they can't find them - it's really cute.

You can tuck them into bed, and read them stories..  they can get into bed themselves to go to sleep, they can nap in their beds (or they have the option of napping wherever they are, which I haven't done yet.)

I stopped playing at this point, and went to bed!  More tomorrow on SIMS 4 Toddlers!