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October 19, 2006
Triton and Vesta
First let's give you a little background and then we'll get to the good stuff.
When we got back from the beach and I was reading up on hermit crabs I learned that they actually aren't hermits at all and need little crabby friends, so we purchased a couple more crabs to keep Triton company and dubbed them Neptune and Vesta. I know...I know, Vesta isn't a Water goddess, but I didn't like the Water Goddess names so I named her after the Goddess of Home and Hearth instead.
Not too long ago Neptune went to the big crabby heaven in the sky and we have yet to replace him, so now we just have Triton and Vesta. Vesta is the outgoing crab, whom Alexis adores! She usually skittles about all day, eating and playing and she doesn't fold up into her shell when Alexis approaches. She just does her little crabby thing as if Alexis isn't standing there large and noisily. Today however she's hiding.
Triton on the other hand has always been a hider, he was from the day we got him at Ocracoke. Where as Vesta will sit on your hand and look at you, Triton won't come out of his shell unless you're bathing him!
And now on to her conversation:
"'Trigon' where's 'Besta'?"
Triton of course just sits there under the edge of the shell that holds the sponges wishing she'd go away and stop making noise.
"Oh she's hiding" Alexis tells him, as if he had answered her question.
Again he draws his feet up tighter in his shell to get away from the noisy little one.
"Let's sing 'Trigon' and den 'Besta' will come out too!"
I swear he blinked his crabby eyes at her as she started to sing the ABC song. She finished her song and I heard her tell Triton:
"Oh well. Dat's just disgusting! You need to sing too 'Trigon'!" (Disgusting is her new favorite word that she picked up from me the other day when we were discussing things that varous animals ate during one of her lessons.)
Triton obviously didn't lift up his crabby lungs in song with my daughter so she called in to me:
"Mama! 'Trigon' won't sing with me!"
"Crabs don't sing Alexis!" I called back.
"Sebastian sings!" she told me indignantly.
"Sebastian is a cartoon sweetheart. Real crabs don't sing."
"Den I need a cat Mama! Cat's can sing!"
Well she's half right anyway! ;o)
Posted by Dianne at October 19, 2006 3:36 PM
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