Our Little Cottage

Our Turtles...

Since I put up pictures of our turtle habitat yesterday, thought I would give formal introductions today of all our turtles...

Here is Speedio, our smallest turtle.  He lives inside, in an aquarium.  He shares his space with a toad, a Jefferson salamander, 2 water frogs, and another small salamander...

Our next biggest turtle, which isn't really too big, is Rexie.  He/She {thinking girl, but not positive on that one yet!} is a juivilnlle turtle.  Still pretty young.  She lives outside in the "play pen"...

Okay, so now to go thru our adult turtles.

This is Danny's Girl, yep that's her name!  LOL!  Poor little girl has holes in the underbelly shell, a stub for one of her back feet and does not have a tail.  She's had a rough life, but she is loved very much now!

This one is the smallest turtle in the turtle habitat.  He's pretty new, and doesn't even have a name yet....still learning his personality!

This is D.G.  She has recently started digging in our walkway in the habitat.  Digging with her back legs...maybe dropping some eggs soon????  {fingers crossed!}  Here she is sitting in the cool water of the small creek...

Here is Stubs {I'm thinking you can figure out why we call him that}.  He has a stub for a foot in the front...but it doesn't slow him down one bit!  He's one of the biggest turtles we have in the habitat.  I call him our old man because that is what he looks like to me!

I do believe this is Mr. Bump.  He's got a lot of bumps on his shells...very fancy!  LOL!

This is Hunter.  He's the first turtle we saw that actually went after his own worms!  The mighty hunter stalks his prey!

This is Pyscho...He's another one of Danny's favorites!  Pyscho was the first turtle to really eat out of Danny's hand.  He earned the name Pyscho when he dove into our pond and drug out a BIG dead fish to eat!!  And I think he just has a crazy, pyscho type look to him!

This is one that our neighbor dropped off with us.  We haven't named this one either...still learning about him.

 This one is Lightening.  Frosty just got him about 2 weeks ago.

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Danny is home from work today because of his sore back.  He has a dr's appt in just a couple hours.  I'm hoping they will give him something good to take care of his pain...I hate to see him so miserable!

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I've been reading Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka.  This is the 2nd time I've read this book.  I actually got a bunch of books from the library about spirited/strong-willed children.  It's the one I like the best out of them all.

It talks about planning for success.  And that is what I will be doing today!  We have plans to meet up with some friends on Thursday at a park in the evening.  I've been racking my brain for the past few days wondering what things we can bring or things we can do to ensure a successful evening with our boys.

We will be taking Liam's high chair with us.  That way we will only have to make sure Zach sits when we are all eating...he usually does good with this, but being in a new place with a play area within sight, it might cause some issues.

When I go to the store to pick up some goodies for the picnic I will pick up some playdoh, bubbles, and coloring books for all the kids to play with.  Having that opportunity for a little quieter play might be great to have on hand...just in case!

It's been VERY peaceful here this morning...and I am VERY thankful for it!

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Well, I guess I should go do something other than sitting here...

...have a great day!