The Sims

Stellan rediscovered The Sims over the weekend, and spent a good hour happily creating a sim family and occasionally calling me in from where Emily and I were doing laundry to show off the outfits he had selected or to ask how to spell a name. He started off by re-creating his own family, because that is what everyone does first when playing The Sims. Then he added a baby. Then he added another baby. Then he kept on adding babies until he hit the game-imposed limit on the number of babies allowed in a single household, and had a grand time dressing them up in panda bear suits and frog hats and so on, and then for a longish period of time he was quiet and we kind of forgot what he was up to until an "oh man" came from the next room, followed by an "oh man oh man ohmanohmanohmanOH MAN OH DAAAAAAAAAAD" and he sprinted away from the computer "DAD THEY ALL NEED SO MANY THINGS AND THERE ARE DIAPERS"