Chapter 346

Hallie: "Hey, mom. Here's a house key so you can visit any time you'd like."

Daniella: "Thanks! I've been wanting to barge in like I own the place since the second I was kicked out."

Mood.

Hannah: "Did you know that dad was abducted by aliens?"

Hallie: "He might even be pregnant with an alien baby."
Maci: "That's silly! It's also impossible."
Servo: "I'm afraid it's not impossible!"

Servo would know from experience... hence the existence of Servella.

Erin: "I'm gonna play hide and seek by myself!"

Erin: "I found myself!"

Great job.

Jack still refuses to remove his bike helmet.

This is so adorable!

Jack: "What the heck?"

Jack: "Why does my belly feel so strange? Is it the eggs I just ate?"

Maci decided to take Ringo out for a walk in the freezing cold.

Hooray! Cody learnt how to ride a bike!

Milestone confetti!

Jack: "It's not milestone confetti, you dingus! It's New Year's Eve confetti!"

Woah... hormonal, much?

Jack: "Hormonal? Why would I be hormonal?"

Maybe because you're preg- never mind.

Hooray!

Everyone: "Happy New Year!"

First, there were secret robot meetings happening... now, there's a secret unfinished snowpal meeting happening outside?

Servo: "I left some of the Trashley boxes out to remind you to open them."

Ah, yes. Right here is box, better box, and best box. Servo purchased 50 of each, so I guess it's time to open them up and see what's inside!

Sunshine: "What's so good about the 'best box'?"

I'm assuming it has the best items among the 'box' and 'better box'?

Jack: "Ugh... I feel so strange."

Jack: "My belly is also double the size, right now."

Maybe because you're in your second trimester- ...never mind.

Waddle off to work, now.

Pumpkin: "Don't mind me, just basking in the sun rays."

The party bot has lots of confetti to spare lately.

Jack's belly continues to grow for reasons unbeknownst to him.

Jack: "Ah!"

Jack: "Why the heck is my belly glowing?!"

You shall know soon.

All of Trashley's boxes have been opened! Lots of them had nothing, some of them had simoleons, some of the 'better boxes' even had a regular 'box' inside of them. However, the best thing to come out of the boxes was a whole lot of 'Trashley Certified Art', a new collectable!

Isn't it fabulous? The Parsons only need two more of the Trashley certified art to complete their collection.

This is also the Nordhaven bike part Servo got from cleaning the canal; a "Henrik" Cykel Frame. There's still plenty more of these to collect.

Since Servo finally completed the 'Eco Innovator' aspiration, he can quit the civil designer career and move onto the conservationist career in the environmental manager branch.

His first task is to 'prepare grant application'. (Which takes forever, by the way.)

Sunshine: "Grant applications are so scary!"

Do you even know what those are? ...Because I don't.

Jack is having a midlife crisis. He currently has a desire for adventure, and the easiest, most safe want he had was to take a scenic bike ride. He does this all the time, anyway.

You scared me there for a second, townie cat in a hoodie. I thought you were a burglar!

Jack has been promoted! Not long now until he reaches the top of his career.

Servo's Pottery Class is open for business!

Here come the customers.

It's not easy getting a business to 5 stars, that's for sure.

Poor Servo is trying his best by running classes, socializing with customers and mentoring constantly, but it's barely making much of a difference.

Jack: "My co-workers were laughing at me for my belly all day. I can't take this, anymore!"

If you look closely, you'll see the cleaner bot somehow cleaning up a dog poop from behind a glass door.

Daniella: "Want some homework help from a super genius?"
Hallie: *Ignores*

Woah! Jack's belly has grown triple the size, now!

Jack also has to work on the rocket science skill for his career, so the Parsons are going to have yet another rocket ship in their yard and a whole lot of confused neighbors. (I had no idea it would take until he was level 8 in his career to require the rocket science skill. I was starting to think he wouldn't need it at all!)

Jack: "Ah! My belly hurts a lot, now!"

Not now, party bot!

I think you're in labor, Jack!

Jack: "Labor? What do you mean?!"

Hallie: "Ugh, this is so embarrassing. My friends had better not find out my dad is giving birth to an alien baby."

You've got this, Jack!

*Sparkles!*

It's a girl! 💖 Introducing Zaylee Parsons!

Jack: "Wow, so that alien abducted resulted in this, huh?"

Jack: "Although unexpected, I couldn't possibly ask for a better outcome."

Donut: "That's so sweet."

Donut: "Wanna play?"

Ringo: "I've told you once, and I'm telling you again... I'm too old to be running around the house at the speed of light!"

It's Love Day time! 💘💌💋

Ringo: "I've lived a long life, but it's time for me to go."

Nooooooooo! Ringo!

Rest In Peace, Ringo Parsons. You were a wonderful, playful dog. You will be dearly missed.

Donut: "Why does the alien baby get all the attention, but not me?"

Donut: "I want all the attention."

Hallie: "Maci, did you hear?"
Hannah: "Dad had an alien baby, so we were right! You're so stupid!"

Maci: "At least I'm not annoying, like you."

Cody: "I love arguments that I'm not involved in!"

Zaylee aged up into an infant!

Sunshine: "She's not as adorable as me."

The townie cat in a hoodie is hanging around quite a lot... maybe he is secretly a burglar and is up to something?

Even though Jack is ♫ a single mom who works two jobs ♫ he's very lucky to have plenty of help raising the kids from Servo.

Jack: "Servo is the best!"

Servo finally getting the appreciation he deserves?! *Gasp!*

Jack is outside building the new rocket ship. This will only take forever and a day.

Jack: "Hmm... how do I work this thing-"

Jack: "Woah! That was dangerous!"

Erin is up bright and early in a happy mood!

Zaylee is also awake bright and early... in an angry mood.

Look who's also angry.

Servo: "This is why I never go near these bees!"

What will it take for Servo's small business to raise to four stars, let alone five?!

Any ideas, Bonehilda?

What are you doing?!

Bonehilda: "Chaos and destruction always raises customer reviews, right?"

Wrong!

At least you're helping Jack work on the rocket ship to make up for what just occurred.

Cody: "I'd better do my homework so I can be a straight A student and become the heir and stay in this crazy house forever."

That's a first!

Tummy time for Zaylee!

Jack: "When will I finally be promoted again?!"

The astronaut career is very similar to the culinary career, wherein it takes forever to move ahead because sims only have to go to work every other day.

Who's the culprit here?

Sunshine: "The dog. It's always the dog."

Spencer, could you please stop looking through the Parsons window? It's not gonna convince anyone to let you move back in!

Jack: "Woah! I think I'm getting sick. The whole world is spinning!"

Bonehilda has been outside working on this rocket ship for almost 10 hours, now. You've made up for your tomfoolery, now go home!

Happy birthday, Maci!

Happy birthday, Erin!

Erin aged up into a teen!

Maci aged up into a child!

Pumpkin is knocked out!

Thanks to Bonehilda's efforts, Jack will have a much easier time working on the rocket ship, now.

According to a pop up, a local news station reached out to Servo to interview him about his business! He could have smeared other small businesses, but he used it as an opportunity to spread positivity, which his customers loved since his business aligns with the 'Dreamer' alignment.

Servo is running yet another pottery class in the hopes of more positive reviews.

Erin: "This breakfast scramble is delicious!"
Donut: "Can I haz some?"

Maci: "Poor Donut is missing out."

Hopefully Zaylee can learn to sit up today.

Servo has lots of customers today after the positive news article!

Hooray! Zaylee sat up for the first time on her own!"

Maci: "Great job, Zaylee!"

Hallie: "I hate doing homework. It's so stupid!"
Cody: "And that's why you'll never be heir."

Time for Zaylee to learn to crawl!

Sunshine: "Forget about that, could someone fill my food bowl? It's halfway empty!"

Hooray! Zaylee is now crawling!

I always forget this roomba vacuum cannot, in fact, clean up pet hair, despite it belonging to the Cats & Dogs expansion pack.

The paparazzi can never give poor Servo a break, not even to do something as simple as building a rocket ship.

Servo: "It's taking you forever to finish up that rocket ship."

Jack: "How long do you expect me to take?! I only have level 2 rocket science skill!"

Hooray! Zaylee is standing up on her own!

She found one of the Parsons kids favorite toys: Chompy!

One minute Chompy is beloved, the next minute the Parsons kids are confused by him.

Jack: "Who's ready for a bedtime story?"

Looks like poor Jack is sick.

Zaylee is not trying to hide the fact that she's concerned about Jack's rashy face at all.

It's Egg Day time! 🥚🐇🌸

Jack: "Ugh! I hate Egg Day."

Hallie: "School is the worst!"
Hannah: "I know."

If you think school is the worst, wait until you hear about homework!

The family recipe book actually has a lot of benefits when you create a family recipe with a special touch. Sims can unlock certain special touches for family recipes by having events in life happen to them. Once a sim eats the special meal, they will be able to reap the benefits of whatever the special touch is. That's so cool!

Servo had to stop greeting customers to make dinner and breakfast for the Parsons.

Maci: "I smelled dinner and finished my homework immediately!"

Sleep time for Zaylee!

Ah, to have a master chef robot make you breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Cody decided to go for a bike ride around the neighborhood!

Looks like Erin asked Jack to join in on playing dolls.

Jack: "Two gothic dolls move into the neighborhood. What shall happen next? Stay tuned to find out!"

Pumpkin: "I'm tuned in."

Happy birthday, Hallie!

Happy birthday, Hannah!

Servo: "Yes! Two less sims to cook for and clean up after!"

Hallie aged up into a young adult!

So did Hannah! ...Now, get out.

Happy birthday, Cody!

Cody aged up into a teen!

Cody: "I don't have to get out, do I?"

I figured maybe if Servo's business started selling some ceramic creations, it might make it easier to level up the business.

There's only room for three shelves to sell items on, but it's good enough!

I kid you not, this employee cleaned this counter nonstop all day long, and only took a break to use the telescope for some reason.

Servella: "The jazz music playing in this place is way too loud!"

One of the family recipe special touches unlock if a sim wins a fight, so Servo is outside fighting the Flower Bunny for eggs!

Who shall win?

The rocket ship is also fully built, finally!

Servo: "I kicked your butt!"

Somehow, that didn't count as winning a fight. The Flower Bunny also glitched and turned into a regular sim in a raincoat because of my raincoat mod.

Zaylee hates wake up time, so she always wakes up from her naps in a sad or angry mood.

What better way to study for your exams than to stand on the porch in your pyjamas?

Maci: "Selfieee!"
Cody: "Embarrassing."

Uh... it's 4AM. You can go home now, Flower Bunny.

Happy birthday, Zaylee!

Zaylee aged up into a toddler!

Zaylee: "Yay for birthdays!"

Sunshine, stop scratching the panda couch!

Sunshine: "Who? Me? I would never do such a thing."

Yes, you would... because you're doing it again.

Apparently, having a good ambience helps with business reviews, and one way to up the ambience is to have a fireplace... even though it's currently summer.

Servo is here to upgrade it immediately. No mishaps are happening on his watch!

The ambience must have improved, there's lots of customers here today!

Zaylee: "You can't walk? You can't even go outside?"

Schnuggle Woofkins: "Unfortunately not. If I could, I'd run far away from these crazy sims."

Cody is working on his logic skill using the telescope. Jack is here to help out since he's level 10 at the logic skill.

Jack: "The only thing you're going to see by pointing the telescope at my forehead are my stress wrinkles."

Cody: "Really? I those were Saturn's rings."

Cody: "Hey... wait a minute..."

Cody: "Do you see that giant rock in the sky coming towards us?"

Cody: "Uh oh..."

A meteor is approaching! Run for cover!

*BOOM!*

Townie: *Throws up* "I hate meteors!"

Servo: "A meteor just hit Cody? This is really bad for business."

Jack: "Grim Reaper, please don't take my son. He's just a kid!"

Grim Reaper: "Very well. I shall bring him back to life, because I'm feeling nice today."

Cody has been brought back to life by Jack's pleas!

Cody: "Well, that hurt."

Cody: "Thank you so much for helping bring me back to life, dad!"

Jack: "I'd never let anything bad happen to you."

Cody sure is brave. He's back using the telescope immediately after almost dying because of it.

Erin: "I'm gonna build a mini rocket ship with blocks, just like the one in the backyard!"

Maci: "It's been a total of 2 hours since I last took a selfie!"

Zaylee: "Yellow crab block!"

The yellow crab block has officially stolen the green crab block's spot as the best toy ever.

There's a lot of pirates hanging around today for 'Talk Like a Pirate Day'.

Jack: "Hey, Daniella. Something pretty horrible happened today, so don't get mad."

Daniella: "Well, how bad could it be?"

Jack: "It's as bad as a meteor dropping out of the sky right onto Cody."

Daniella: "Oh my gosh, that would be horrible, wouldn't it?"

Jack is having a 'skillful sleep', which for some reason, causes a skill spirit to come out at night and gain skills for Jack while he snoozes.

Looks like it's going for the charisma skill.

Sunshine has returned home after running away for 4 hours.

Sunshine: "I'm never doing that again."

Pumpkin: "You ran away?!"

Sunshine: "Thanks for noticing I was gone for 4 whole hours. That's a very long time."

Another meteor is approaching, but Cody knows to head for cover this time.

Erin decided to take Donut for a walk once she got home from school!

After running out of ceramics to sell, Servo is getting desperate and selling plants from the Parsons garden, instead.

Maci: "Truffles gave me the most disgusting meal while digging for collectables."

What is it?

Maci: "It's bugs!"

Gross!

For some reason, the pets (mostly Donut) keep waking Cody up in the middle of the night, and only Cody. It's driving me nuts!

Pumpkin: "Back away from the washing machine. I'm the queen ruler of it."

Sunshine: "I'm here to claim the throne."

You know the jewlery designing is getting serious when Servo uses this monocle looking thing.

It's super sunny outside today, so Zaylee decided to play on the slide!

Zaylee: "The slide is so fun!"

Donut: "Why can't dogs use the slide?"

Zaylee: "You can't? That's no fair!"

Donut: "I know, right?"

Zaylee: "Oh well!"

Donut: "Hey, that's not nice!"

Customer: "You're selling flowers, too? I thought this was supposed to be a pottery class."

Servo: "Have you ever tried to run a business? ...That's what I thought."

Customer: "Hmm... I might actually purchase this chamomile."

Servo has to constantly restock the plants, but selling items is helping level up the business way faster!

It's a heatwave in Willow Creek today, and the fireplace isn't making it any cooler, so the thermostat should.

Employee: "There's way too many songs playing at once with the party bot and the speaker!"

Aww, Bonehilda is such a mom.

Since Jack is at work and Servo is busy with his business, she's helping take care of Zaylee, today.

Servo is so close to earning 4 stars. He just needs to keep talking to every single customer that enters the business.

The rays of sunshine are home from school, and for once, they're actually in a happy mood!

Bonehilda is even helping Cody with his homework!

These two decided to do their homework on the front porch.

Hooray! Jack has been promoted to Space Ranger and gets to wear this super cool suit and speak like a sheriff! Only one more promotion until he reaches the top of his career!