By visual inspection of toddler Sims standing next to adults, I assumed a toddler with stretch factor of 1 is 34″ tall, which happens to be the 50th percentile for 2-year-old kids (in the States), so that means anything under 2 is going to have a factor less than 1 (unless he’s going to be tall when he grows up).

Girls:
8 months, 2’4.2″, 0.8308
12 months, 2’6.2″, 0.8888
18 months, 2’8.9″, 0.9682
24 months, 2’10.8″, 1.0221

Boys:
8 months, 2’3.3″, 0.8026
12 months, 2’5.2″, 0.8593
18 months, 2’7.6″, 0.9303
24 months, 2’9.0″, 0.9714

The difference between girls and boys is slightly due to their different growth rates, but mostly due to the fact that 5’7.5″ is considered average overall, but the average man is about 5’9″ and the average woman is about 5’6″, so the 5’7.5″ average is a slightly short man or a slightly tall woman.

I should warn you that 0.8 is serious stumpville.

I think Aisling ends up more with Darina’s nose than Engin’s. It is definitely an interesting nose though It looks more like Engin’s now though. Maybe the tip is more like Engin’s and the straightness is more Darina’s.

But I do apply a stretch ratio to toddlers so 7-month old babies are quite small. It makes some of the animations weird, but they’re so cute when they’re such little stubby-legged things, with the short baby hair on their heads.

I usually don’t have a problem with waiting, but I am dying to age Liadan up. I can’t believe she’s only three months old. Maybe it’s because time has practically ceased to advance in the valley.

I’m glad Aisling turns out to have an interesting face (they don’t all have to be classically beautiful after all). I was looking at her parents again and I can’t actually even be sure she gets her nose from her dad and not Darina. I would need to see more angles. (And her grown-up face.) But I think it’s cool she will be so distinctive-looking.

I forgot how ambitious Darina is, too, so I’m sure the ear thing is a real blow to her.

Engin is so in adoring father mode which I wasn’t expecting at all. I had other plans for him but he has gone and changed them by being a really sweet dad. Darina cares about Aisling, but she isn’t very good at showing it and she does see this ear development as a hinderance for any plans she might have for Aisling’s future. She is also worried about how people will treat her. She actually ends up with quite a nice mix of their faces and I really like the way she looks though it is definitely not typical pretty or anything like it.

I had decided to age them up at 6 months because I read that they start to sit up between 6 and 9 months and I was sort of desperate to age some of them up. But I think I might have aged Kendrick up a bit early since he is just 6 months. I was going to ask you when you started aging them up actually, but then I went back and checked the timing between when Leia was born and when she became a toddler and I thought it was about right. I think I will probably aged them up at 7 months in the future. But it is so hard to wait!

Darina does not seem like the type to have magical anything in her background! She seems quite upset over what happened to her cousin, but I didn’t get the same feelings of protectiveness as I did from Engin. I don’t think she is in the same “She’s beautiful just the way she is” mode as Engin. But maybe that’s because she knows how tough life is going to be for her. On an island with scary and inexplicable things happening, Aisling may end up getting some of the blame, I fear.

I had to check out the baby pictures… there are quite a few I haven’t seen. But I really wanted to see Aisling after these glimpses of her here. Sure enough, while she may not have her dad’s silly smile, she seems to have the rest of his face! Poor girl.

Out of curiosity, at what age do you decide to age up your babies to toddlers? I have been doing that around 7-8 months since that’s about the time they can start sitting up by themselves. But it looks like you have been doing it younger.

It was a great post. I loved the interactions between Aisling and Engin. He always seems such a sod and then you show him like this. It makes him a little less of a bugger. I also liked how true-to-life the little father/daughter exchanges were. And, of course, it’s always a treat to see Hepsie!