Wow, Anarose, that was a wonderful story! I just love how you wrote it, very well done!

A quick question -- the stuffed elephant comes with a board game? And it's a toy you can buy in the first generation? I've looked at the toys, but can't remember right now which ones are sold in the first generation.

Another quick question -- do you play more than one family at a time? I just don't know how you manage to get that many kids if you do. I have decided to start with peeps that Definitely want kids cause I've had sooooo much trouble trying to get my peeps to have more than one and no, I've never touched my computers clock. Although, since I work 24 hours each weekend, I have put my families on Pause. Wonder if that's why my peeps either continually refuse to even try for more kids or why they fail every time I do manage to get them to try.

Oh,and one more quick question. You mentioned getting double for the collectibles -- I take it that means it's like the VV games where you can drop more than one kid on a collectible (using the pause feature ofcourse) and end up with twice the amount? Have you tried more than 2 kids? I doubt that would work, but just wondered if you had tried more than 2. I'll be lucky if I can ever even get two, lol!