A Tale of Two Turtles

My kids brought home two Asian Box Turtles with them last summer after a short vacation in Roxas City.  It was given to them by one of their uncles.

Now that classes are underway, I have taken it my task to care for them while the kids are in school, making sure they have their daily dunk in the water (since their skins get so dry and scaly if they are in land all the time) and feeding them. 

I have become attached to them, talking to them and petting them (they like being pet under their chin and on top of the head).  Yeah, I never realized but turtles are totally cute.  They're so cute, I doodled one. 

They were named Leo and Fido.  The kids swore they were both male turtles, their uncle said so.  Leo belongs to Teo and Fido belongs to Enzo.  They even have personalities to match their owners, hahaha. 

One day last week, Teo found a turtle egg in his room! It was quite funny because we thought all along that the turtles were both male.  Teo's turtle Leo was female!!!

"Mom, we now have to change Leo's name!"

Hello Leona!

And the turtle egg, is in a bed of leaves and soil...we started researching what to do...hopefully it survives.

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A Surprise from Teo

Last night my son Teo approached me and told me he had a surprise for me! Ooh, I love surprises, especially from my kids. 

He brought out this little camouflage sling bag he owned and pulled out dried seed pods from it.  Not just one, but 10 pods! Hahaha! He is so cute and thoughtful.  He told me that I could use it for my art since he saw some dried up stuff I collected lying on my desk.

You see, one day I came home after my morning run with some dried twig, a seed pod and some dried looking fruit which I picked up off the ground.  The storm last week left a lot of plant and tree debris and I saw some interesting stuff I wanted to try to make sketches of.

I was pleasantly surprised that he remembered.  The seed pods were from a trip they made to Mimosa and collected on one of their adventures with their Lolo Dennis.  They were said to come from the Narra tree.

 I could use this as a stamp ;)

Love the texture.

Here they are all together.

Thank you Teo, I really love your surprise.

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