Backyard Visitor Returns

Last May, the kids found this tortoise(?) in our backyard. They painted its shell with pink nail polish.

Yesterday they were playing outside and Crosby started yelling, "a turtle, a turtle!" It had the same orange markings and a few patches of chipped, metallic paint on its shell--maybe it's the same one?

Alexee ran inside for a fresh coat of nail polish. She asked me to write the name Aurora on the shell in pink. Hopefully "it" is a girl.

They gave her a nice sparkly, spring look.

Then they decided to gather some leaves and grass for her. I thought she probably wanted to get away as quickly as her little legs would carry her...
...but to our surprise, she wasn't shy at all.
C wanted to give her a ride in the green dump truck, but (lucky for her) they got busy trying to feed her and he forgot about the ride.
Alexee wanted to see if she'd eat a Ritz chip. I didn't think she would, but I was wrong--she loved it! The kids thought this was so funny. She got crumbs on her mouth, so Alexee went inside to get her a napkin. :)

Eating lunch outside--it was such a pretty day.

After school fun with friends

Lane was able to take R & A to their swim lessons. Alexee went to one lesson as a "Manta 1" and the instructor said she needed to move up to a "Manta 2". Rhett is doing a great job, too. He's just working on specific strokes now. While they were gone, Crosby watched a few episodes of his new favorite show, Fireman Sam, and I made the kids a homemade pizza for dinner.