Gen 3 Chapter 4: Growing up

After all of the birthday excitement wore off, I continued my quest of becoming a Robot/Creature cross-breeder. Which meant more gardening.

Lorali has decided that she's going to follow in my and Bonni's footsteps, but she's working on her fishing skills first. Too bad, I could use more help in the garden until I can get the sprinklers installed!

Dad decided to retire now that he's an Elder. I know how much he liked being part of the rock and roll world, but he says that he wants to work on mastering the guitar and catch up with old friends now that his days are numbered!

And old age hasn't slowed him down at all when it comes to hitting on Mom. It's actually kind of... cute?

Then again, he's also taken to hitting on random women so maybe we should stop letting him go out unsupervised. Or put him in a home. Luckily, his attempts were unsuccessful. I'm pretty sure that Mom wouldn't have taken it well and she probably has a license to kill by now, being a spy and all.

Bonni and I are getting along pretty well these days, but she's so moody (her and Lorali both) that I sometimes have no idea how to talk to her. I'm pretty sure teenage girls are crazy.

Dad practices in the weirdest places.

But we all like to encourage him.

I decided it was time to go get a real job. I took Jagger with me on my job hunt at the Science Center so he could see me become a test subject. He should have some not-crazy family influence, I think.

Dad did try to make sure that Jagger learned everything that a toddler should learn, though. When he wasn't trying to score with Mom, hit on random women or playing guitar in weird places!

Meanwhile, Mom's been working too much. As usual.

Bonni and Lorali went to prom. I think prom is overrated, but they seemed to have fun with it.

I'm not sure what Lorali got into there, though... this is how we found her.

Mom and Dad are just way to preoccupied to keep track of what their kids are up to, I guess. I'm starting to think that I'd better keep a closer eye on things.

For instance, no one even noticed Jagger's birthday! I'm used to it, but the poor kid was all alone!

Jagger seems to be a pretty serious kid. He looks a lot like Dad, but he acts more like the stories I've heard about Grandpa VJ... something about the look in his eyes.

The Hodgins men. It was kind of nice to have breakfast with Dad and Jagger (without the moody girls!) until I realized that Jagger was skipping school to be there! And Dad was just sitting there, allowing it!

I guess it really is time for me to step up as heir and man of the house. Someone has to yell at these kids when they screw up!

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A/N: Zeke has suddenly become a responsible adult! He's going to have an interesting time, I think, since Kevin has become very mellow in his old age, and looking through my pictures I noticed that he also hardly every gets dressed, and Neli is often called in to work. Jagger inherited VJ's evil trait (I actually use the randomizer for traits, but he's been evil since birth) and is already acting up. And the girls are always moody! Poor Zeke, the lone voice of reason in the house.