Peter Pan. The Tortoise.

Did I mention I bought a tortoise for the kids? I thought a tortoise would be a good pet. It'll take daily work to take care of, but that's about it. No noise. No outrageous smells. No craziness. Just a calm, boring ole tortoise.

But our tortoise is insane. First of all, he digs his house. I have a very large house for him and he loves it. He makes paths through the substrate from where he likes to sleep to his pool to his food. He'll walk those paths a thousand times a day. He jumps (yes, he jumps) into his pool and splashes around. He devours the fresh fruits/veggies we cut for him daily. We take him out daily so he can really move around the house or backyard and that tortoise is freaking fast. No wonder he beat the hare in the fable.

We knew tortoises did so much? He's awesome. I'll have to post a picture of him soon.

And his name really ~is~ Peter Pan. This is what you get when you ask your children to name a pet. I should have expected it because I have a friend who's kids named their cats "Elmo" and "Big Bird". I always thought that was hilarious but never stopped to think that it would soon happen to me too.

Anywho, before it was "Peter Pan" - the other suggestions were "Tinkerbell" and "Earl". Isn't the last one kind of strange? That was from my 3 year old. Peter Pan, Tinkerbell or Earl. heh. But they settled on "Peter Pan". This tortoise is less than a year old and his life expectancy is 50. I'm going to be 84 years old with a tortoise named Peter Pan.