Our Turtle
When I was young, all the pet stores sold baby red eared slider turtles, about the size of a quarter. So we got one. Let me interject one thing before I go on–turtles are the WORST pet in the world to get a child. Do NOT buy your kid a turtle. The reason I say this, from experience, is for one reason only: turtles live to be about 50 years old. We got Turtley when I was in first grade,…