A Geeky Bard's SimLit

Chapter 7: Competition and Conflict As soon as Keoni woke up in the morning, Malie came into the bedroom, picked him up, and carried him out to his high chair where a bowl of cereal was waiting for him. She placed him in the high chair, and Keoni took up his little plastic spoon and ate his breakfast. He finished eating, and Leimomi walked over to him, but just as he was about to pick him up and let him out of the high chair, her cell phone rang and she picked up the call. "Hello? ... Pardon? You spent the last thousand Simoleons I loaned to your fledgling business on what? ... I've been generous in helping you out so far, but if you really are serious about following your dreams like you keep saying, you'd have been more responsible in the first place. And that includes repaying your debts. ... Very well. Good luck in your future business endeavors." Leimomi hung up the call, put her phone away, lifted Keoni up out of the high chair and placed him on the ground. Keon...

Chapter 6: Explore, Learn, Imagine Keoni woke up one morning to find that the first thing he needed to do was answer the call of the potty. Then Leimomi entered the bathroom, picked Keoni up, carried him out to the high chair and placed him in the seat so that he could eat his cereal. After Keoni finished breakfast, Malie let him out of the high chair, and Hokulani took the empty bowl from the tray in order to wash it in the kitchen sink. Keoni toddled back into the bedroom and gave Beach Bear a big hug. Then Keoni decided that the beach needed some decorating, so he changed out of his pajamas and into his everyday clothes, and he headed outside. He went around to the side of the house, but just as he had his paint bottles in hand and was preparing to get creative, Leimomi caught him. "Keoni, remember what I told you? No paint on the beach. It won't be good for the fish, which in turn won't be good for our family." She tried to hug it out with Keoni, but he pushed her...

Chapter 5: The Warrior No sooner had Keoni woken up and crawled out of bed when his mother came into the bedroom, picked him up, and carried him out to the dining table where a bowl of cereal was waiting for him on the tray of his high chair. Keoni took a little plastic spoon in hand and carefully began to scoop up spoonfuls of cereal and shove them in his mouth -- when he wasn't occupied by playing with his food, that is. Even so, Keoni managed to get through his breakfast by eating it instead of yeeting it. Leimomi let Keoni out of his high chair, took his cereal bowl to the kitchen sink and washed it. Meanwhile, Keoni answered the call of the potty. When he was done, Malie came into the bathroom to check on him. "How about a nice bubble bath, Keoni?" "Bubbles! Yay!" Keoni exclaimed in reply. After Keoni was done with his bath, he felt all revved up from splashing in the bubbly water. He immediately started to bop and boogie down to some tune he was making up ...

 Chapter 4: Breakthroughs and Brouhahas Keoni was having his usual breakfast one morning, when he decided that it would be more fun to yeet his cereal than to eat it. Thus, his cereal ended up all over the high chair and on the floor. Leimomi sat down at the table across from her grandson. "Now, now, Keoni. What a waste of perfectly good food. There are children in families that aren't as fortunate as ours who would love to have a full breakfast every day." Hokulani placed her own bowl of cereal on the table and sat down. "Yeah, and even though we're not rich, we still have some nice things, so don't ruin them by making a mess, kid." Leimomi tried to lighten the mood by telling a silly story about the first time she tried to ride an aqua-zip and struggled to figure out how to make the contraption work, and then when she finally did get the thing moving, all she could do was zoom around randomly while she struggled to figure out how to make the thing stop...