Bye bye turtles

For just over a year now, we have been raising baby turtles.  If you remember from last August, we watched 12 of them hatch.   Then Grandpa took 8 of them back to Texas with him and released them into the lake.  Last week, we decided that Fancy Nancy, Fast swimmer, Bitey, and Princess were getting to big for their aquarium.  So, we released them at a park nearby.  The girls were surprising okay with this decision.  Mom and dad (mostly dad since he did most of the work) were tired of taking care of them.  It was a great lesson for the girls who did a great job feeding and exercising our pets.  The hard part was cleaning out the aquarium which had to be done bi-weekly.  As a family, we decided no more pets in cages or aquariums.  It was fun to watch the turtles grow and change and watch the girls take on the responsibility!