Update 2 - Rose

Well look at that, that looks like a second update!

Liana is a dedicated worker and got back to work straight after Liam was born. And it was worth it because she got promoted again (hence the nice counters at the background of the picture)! She also decided one day to take a tiny break from cooking and drink mixing to learn how to bake (I got Get to Work people!!!). She baked some good quality brownies. Well, she's just starting, she'll probably end up great at at this like she is in everything else.

But Liana's success does have its price. When she left little Liam in order to go to work, Steven had to stay at home and take care of him instead of going to the bar and playing the guitar. He didn't like it. Liana is clearly ambitious, but it doesn't mean her job is more important than his, right? Just because she's great at it, and makes tons more money than he does... Yeah never mind. But he did use this free time to upgrade the toilet so that's good.

Liam sure is a screamer. Every night he wakes his parents at least once. Steven doesn't look very happy about it in this picture.

A new coffee machine from her (other) promotion. Wow, that girl is on fire! The promotion also changed Liana's work hours to be more normal (her shift ends in 9 pm now). It comes just in the right time with Liam soon growing into a child- she will now be able to see him before he goes to sleep.

Still work related- Liana had a really bad day. She woke up late, and only than I discovered she still had all of her daily tasks to complete, and about half an hour until work. I was afraid she won't make it until I remembered what day it was- it was Liam's birthday! It means that if they're planing to have a little party for the occasion, she should take a vacation day anyway! So that's exactly what she did.

Birthday party time! Apparently you can't actually throw a birthday party for a baby, but Liana and Steven were more than happy to throw a regular party with some of their closest friends and one baby whose basket was moved into the living room.

And the moment everyone waited for arrived-Liam grew into a child! This adorable kid is a geek, and wants to be a Rumbunctious Scamp, which means he wants to play a lot. Or something. The ambitions names in the Sims 4 are ridiculous. 

As a kid, Liam naturally can't continue living in his parents' room, so they built him a new one. It's underground and has old metallic stairs that are leading to it. How cool is that? Answer: Very cool.

Unfortunately,  Liana and Steven probably went too far in this case, because apparently a basement, even a small one like this, costs ridiculously too much. They just didn't have the money for such an expense. So they had to act a little tight with the decoration but believe me, I'm not giving up on the basement, and it will be full with toys and stuff soon enough anyway. Oh and by the way, here's that dinosaur doll I was talking about in the earlier update.

In that chance they also did some changes in the living room. Since Liam's birthday party got a silver medal (hell yeah), they got this lovely couch as a reward.

In the morning Liana woke up to find the trash can got knocked down. It looks like someone got too wild during the party last night.

I think it was Friday or Saturday because Liam didn't have to go to school. So although Steven was still asleep and couldn't join them, Liana and Liam ate their first adorable breakfast together. 

After he finished eating and doing his homework for the following day, Liam could finally do something fun. He played the computer for a while and then practiced a bit of typing.

"Daddy what is that?"

"That's a gnome son"

"Buy why is it nak..."

"It's cubism son"

"But..."

"Cubism!"

So, remember how I spent all of the Sparks' money on the coolest basement ever? Well bill day arrived, and they needed to pay 400 simoleons, while they had only 200. Liana could easily get the needed amount from her future shift's salary, but these exact two days they had for paying the bills were her days off. So our hero Steven tried to save the day and went with his guitar and his son to the local park. While Steven worked hard and earned an astounding amount of 50 simoleons, Liam played on the giant spaceship and adorably pretended to shoot aliens (I have noticed a returning pattern in Liam's behavior which is that everything he does is adorable). He also found a huge rosy quartz rock and got pretty excited.

After Steven finished playing he went to the grill to try his luck in making his kid something edible (he's not Liana after all) but on the way there he noticed this beauty and started to talk to her. Her name is Rose Collazo. She is single, which is good. He of course isn't but it's just some innocent flirting anyway.

He got so carried away he didn't remember to cook. Fortunately Liam is a resourceful kid and found a leftover plate of hot dogs right behind the bench. Steven joined him and they ate together. Hopefully the hot dogs won't make them sick.

The next day Liana and Steven slept late and Liam had the whole house to himself before he had to go to school, which meant he could watch TV while eating!

After he went to school Steven and Liana went to a mission- to get enough money to pay the bills. They went to the lounge in Willow Creek, and Liana practiced her bar tending skills while Steven played the guitar, with real determination this time. He made an impressing amount of 60 simoleons before Liam got back from school and they had to come back home, but sadly it still wasn't enough.

It was nice for Steven, spending time with his wife like that, getting to see her famous ambition aimed to help him for a change, but he knew that the minute they pay that bill she won't even look at his guitar anymore. Liana was like fire, which is something he admired in her when they first met, but he felt that lately he just got the burning part of it. And he couldn't forget the girl he met in the park, Rose, who was sweet and innocent and excited, in a way that Liana wasn't.

At the end, despite all their effort, they didn't get enough money to pay their bills. They seriously considered living without electricity but eventually they had to take some extreme steps. So... Goodbye Naked Gnome, your lack of clothing will be missed!

Steven told Liana he was going to play for tips like in any other day, but he really wasn't. What he did was to meet Rose in one of the local parks. Things got a bit uncomfortable when Liam surprisingly left school early and went to the park to see his father, but he told him to play on the pirate ship while he talks to his female friend.

Well actually I guess Liam's arrival wasn't that surprising. You see, it turned out that Rose is a sim I used in a different game. I downloaded her from the gallery (I'm sorry, I just couldn't find who made her, but if whoever made her is reading this, just tell me and I will credit you!). I changed her everyday outfit but I didn't change her party outfit, so when I saw her in this game in the party outfit I didn't recognize her but when she came to the park, she wore the clothes I gave her and looked completely different than what she looked like when I took the picture of their first meeting. So I had to use cheats in order to change her everyday look, and that probably messed with the game and made Liam appear there.

Any-who, Without Liam's intervention Steven was free to do what he really wanted and try some of his moves, but Rose ... I guess she wasn't as naive as Steven thought, and she didn't want to get involved with a married man.

Liam had a better day though. He made a few friends, little Keith (the kid that looks like Liam from behind. Yep, Liam is on the bench) and shy Alexander Goth. And a beautiful girl called Olivia. She ignored him at first, but eventually she played with him on the pirate ship. Steven came to him after he finished playing and they spent some time together.

Lianna finally went to work and earned a bit of money, so I was able to make Liam's room a little less bare, and add the new frog that Liam caught.



Steven was ready to give up on Rose, but one day after Liana went to work he found her on his doorstep. She had a horrible day and just didn't want to be alone.

And well... They kissed! There's no going back from that now...