Sheldon

Justin came home from work a couple weeks ago very excited! I was upstairs working on our new guest room at the time but I could hear him calling my name from the moment he walked in the door. "Janelle?" he called, "I'm upstairs" I replied. Then I could hear him hurry through the house  and up the stairs. "Come see what I found in the pasture today!" he said with a smile. So I walked over to the stairs and in his hands he was holding a turtle. "Take a look at his eyes", he said with excitement. And he was right the turtle had the deepest shade of red I had ever seen. Plus I didn't even know turtles had red eyes. "Can we keep him?" I asked. "Yeah!" exclaimed Justin, thrilled to see that I was just as excited as he was about his discovery.
So I searched through my old things because I had a couple of fish growing up and I knew I had kept the fish tank. I found it and took it down stairs and Justin placed the turtle inside. "What should we name it?" I asked. "I don't know, you pick" replied Justin, "How about Sheldon?" I said feeling very clever. "Yeah that sounds good" Justin said really caring less. I smiled to myself, I had never had a turtle before, what an adventure. The next day we searched online to figure out just what kind of a turtle Sheldon was. We were very thankful to learn that he was not a snapping turtle, but a Western Box turtle. We also found out that the red eyes means that he's a male, because the females have brown eyes. And Sheldon's are red, really red, that must mean he's a very manly turtle. Also we learned what box turtles eat, if they are wild, like Sheldon, they eat bugs and worms. But if they are bought in a store they probably eat berries and lettuce. Sheldon loves worms!! It's really neat to watch him eat them too, kinda like we eat spaghetti. Haha
Anyways he is the new addition to our family so you should come over and visit him!