No, not the real Stephen Hawking, but the Turtle version. Stephen is the school pet for the girls MG class, and every weekend, some lucky child, and his/her parents, get the opportunity of taking him home. He’s a 3-legged turtle, and somewhat ‘mobily challenged,’ like his namesake. Never having a turtle before, we were surprised at how much personality they can have. We’ve learned that Stephen likes his food still wiggling … lettuce and banana didn’t appeal to him like a live, freshly harvested, worm from the garden. When presented with fresh meat, he wasted no time to gobble up as many worms as he could, only stopping to chew and swallow, once as many as he could fit, were stuffed into is mouth.
He explored quite a bit of the kitchen and family room, sunning himself in the former, but spending most of his time in the shadows of the latter. Kuzco was intrigued with our house guest as well, but never seemed threatened or ready to pounce. I have chosen to refrain from posting photos of Stephen’s bath and ‘toilet’ but that was fun for the girls to experience as well 🙂
Wauw.. wat een beest! Dat zouden onze Noah en Seb nu ook eens heel fantastisch vinden… vooral in het zoeken van wormen is Noah een expert! Ik kijk niet toe hoor!