#Bontu Maina

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The Maina's are next and their lot is very wet. It stays this way for most of the rotation as the rain just doesn't want to let up.

Taba and Crall don't have much time for eachother but manage to keep their relationship healthy.

With six toddlers crawling around this household is in complete chaos all the time! Only when everyone is sleeping things are quiet, but the stink remains always.

On Friday the first set of triplets (Bonolo, Bontu and Abimbola) age up to childhood.

And the rest of the round is slightly easier and calmer because the three kids can take more care of their own needs and even help out a bit. But Taba is pregnant again so there will probably be more chaos in the next round!

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The Maina's gave me some trouble this round. First, they could not woohoo for some reason, they would start and then just sit there together. When they finally did woohoo Taba immediately got pregnant.

Meanwhile I had found another problem, they could not catch bass in their pond. Since neither had any cooking skill points this made providing dinner a lot harder and they both nearly died several times. After trying to remove mods and some other options to fix this problem I just moved them out and into a new lot and everything worked fine with them..... (If only I had thought of this sooner)

Once properly moved in to the new lot Taba was ready to give birth and it turned out to be triplets! A boy named Abimbola and two girls named Bonolo and Bontu.

ACR took over and Taba was quickly pregnant again so by the end of the week Crall was running around trying to tend the trees and large garden on his own while a highly pregnant Taba tried to keep three toddlers happy.

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Before I start round 5 in my Test of Time challenge neighbourhood I took some family pictures!

The new Ramaswami - Cooke family. Sanjay and Sala Ramaswami and their combined sets of kids. Kherv and Torv Cooke, Abhishek Ramaswami, Nundat Cooke, toddlers Latta Cooke and Deep Ramaswami. Deep is the first child of this new couple together.

Taba and Crall Maina and their gang of kids. Abimbola, Bonolo, Farai, Bontu, Fadzai, Ime and toddler Ayodele.

The biggest family in the neighbourhood at this point: The Parviflorums. Mom Ardisia is holding Alternanthera and dad Conopholis has Silphinum in his arms. Bumelia is standing on the rock and Helictotrichor is holding his little sister Dandranthema. On the ground are toddlers Poncirus and Tiarella and child Linum. And Disporum is on the right looking up at the sky thinking is this photoshoot done yet?

The Picaso family consists of Matthew and Jessica Picaso, newborn Mondi, children Gaba and Bran and toddler Dob.

The other newly combined family! Julien Cooke married widow Tema Strongarm (now Cooke). Kids Vac and Vatzoc were born before their dad Cled Strongarm died and their little sister Egla was born to Tema and Julien.

Dog Chebnar has run away and is not in this picture but his siblings and parents are: Snobek, Mazzi, Koh, Rascal and Uuzo.

And last but not least are the Travellers who moved in for Round 4. Since Priya Ramaswami and Cled Strongarm died and their households combined with the former Cooke household a lot became empty and I thought Trisha and Trent Traveller and their child aged daughter Tina would fit in well. In round 4 baby boy Tarek was born, but they are still the smallest family in this neighbourhood.

(I retook their picture because Tarek is clipping into his mom's arm but Trisha would not make that happy face at him again so I still preferred this version despite the clipping.)

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The Maina's start their round with Taba giving birth. And it's triplets, again! Two girls and one boy. They name them Farai, Fadzai and Ime. This family is about to get very busy.

Taba and Crall are working hard to take care of their three toddlers and three infants. They also manage to keep the fruit trees alive but all the garden plants die. It's a good thing Crall had a little stash of produce and fish in his inventory. They get through a few days like this until both parents pass out from heatstroke. No one is taking care of the kids and no one is doing well.

Luckily it starts raining and Taba and Crall wake up. They immediately get into a frenzy of diaper changes and feedings. They get a bunch of toddler floor blankets and a pet food bowl so the toddlers can help out by taking care of some of their own needs.

Unfortunately the rain also comes with thunder and this causes a series of fires throughout the rest of the round. Taba and Crall run around in a panic everytime, dropping all they were doing.

And their luck continues when Crall gets struck by lightning. At least it doesn't kill him..

After this things calm down a bit and they actually manage to do some teaching.

And the second set of triplets grows up to toddlers. After this the household slowly falls back into total chaos and I did not take anymore pictures but they end the round unhappy but all alive.