"Bell" the Hermit Crab

Kelsie with the house all set up.
Kelsie and Wayne in the backyard setting up the habitat. It required sand and a special kind of dirt. Then a careful placing of the water dish and sponge, and an extra shell. It was pretty interesting to learn about.
Bell crawling on the counter from Kelsie's hand.

Well, we have a new pet. Her name is "Bell" and she is a hermit crab. Kelsie has been asking us for one for quite a while now. We put her off as long as possible but when we saw her wanting to look stuff up on the internet about them and talking to her friend at school about hers, we knew it was more than a passing fancy. We finally told her that if she paid for it and kept it in her room AND agreed to take care of it that we would take her to get one. We made her think about it and she decided last weekend that she wanted to buy it. Today after school was the day and she picked out the one with bells painted on the shell. We did have fun playing with it tonight and watching it crawl around. Kelsie loves it and Bogey gets nervous when Kelsie talks to it in a high pitch voice. This week back to work and school have been busy...looking forward to the weekend. More later.