Hi friends! I don’t know about you, but I have been very grateful for video games during the coronavirus pandemic. I’ve mostly been playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons since it was released last Friday. (My Nintendo friendcode is SW-3496-9495-8978 if you want to be Animal Crossing friends.) However, I do have a few updates for you on the Splines family.
SIDEBAR: Is there a Sims 4 pandemic challenge? There should be! Rules include: You have to grow your own food, no one can take a job that involves leaving the house, and you can’t visit any other lots. Hmm, on second thought, let’s not do that. It sounds like a huge bummer.
The first thing I did was buy them a new home. Cooper and Darren are earning about $3,000 a day from their combined vlog residuals (very realistic), and they had saved up enough to buy a decent house. I picked Inner Circle, which is a Southern California style starter home.
![Southern california style Sim home](https://i0.wp.com/thesplinesfamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/0324-05.png?resize=600%2C450&ssl=1)
The satillo tile in particular strikes a chord with me.
![Female Sim recording a vlog in a southern california style home](https://i0.wp.com/thesplinesfamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/0324-04.png?resize=600%2C450&ssl=1)
I don’t know why I’m nostalgic for Southern California… I only lived there for two years, and I was very excited to move back to the Pacific Northwest.
![Sim mother breastfeeding her baby](https://i0.wp.com/thesplinesfamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/0324-03.png?resize=600%2C450&ssl=1)
I haven’t had a Sim baby in so long, I didn’t know Sim mothers could breastfeed! I love this.
Cooper got an invitation from Father Winter (in his everyday incognito persona, Avery Schmitt) to join him for – this is how the game described it – “Bear Night at the bar.” ?
![Sims 4 bear night at the bowling alley](https://i0.wp.com/thesplinesfamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/0324-02.png?resize=600%2C450&ssl=1)
I don’t know what I expected.
![](https://i0.wp.com/thesplinesfamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/0324-01.png?resize=600%2C450&ssl=1)
That’s Avery Schmitt/Father Winter there in the orange leather pants, by the way.