the whimsy turtle

Clover leaves are nice, but what about clover flowers? You can go pick me a whole plate of clover flowers right now, right?

Grandmom found a special Friday treat for me: pink clover flowers!! ☘️🌸😋🐢🙌

Mom took me out to eat at a clover and dandelion buffet!  ☘️🌱😋🐢

Seven!, Part 6 (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5)

Brightening up your Monday with bonus close-ups of my birthday cake CHOMPs!  Mom took lots of photos, of course!

Thank you for all your birthday wishes, friends!  We are amazed and so touched by all the love you sent me!  Thank you for helping make my birthday the best ever!

Bonus radicchio blep!

Talk to the footie!  I am busy CHOMPing radicchio here!

A fruitful watermelon CHOMP!

Seven!, Part 5 (Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4)

Time to relive my ginormous birthday cake by watching all my excited CHOMPs!  🎥🎉🎂😋🥳  Sound up to hear me crunch after the appropriately named “Birthday Cake” song!  🔊

Excuse me, this cake is not in my mouth!  Bring it to my mouth, Mom!

Seven!, Part 4 (Parts 1, 2, and 3)

I got the best breakfast ever today:  Leftover birthday cake!  🎉🎂😋🥳🎊

Seven!, Part 3 (Parts 1 and 2)

It’s my birthday!!  I am lucky number seven years old!  Can you believe it?!  Seven whole years of me GRUMPing at Mom!  🎉😤7️⃣🥳🎊

To shellebrate, Mom made me a ginormous seven-layer birthday cake with my favorite noms:  Two layers each of radicchio, watermelon, and apple, plus a layer of frilly kale and freshly picked homegrown clover garnishes!  😲 Now this is what I call a birthday feast!  🎂🍉🍎🥬☘️😋😋😋

This cake makes me so happy I even forgot to GRUMP!

Yummy yummy, into my belly!!

* We don’t know the exact day I hatched, so since I was born not long before I met Mom, we celebrate as my birthday the day I showed up on Mom’s doorstep in a FedEx box!

Happy first day of summer!  Summer is the season of noms!  I have a personal indoor garden that grows yummy weeds just for me all year round, but summer is when my garden really blossoms—literally!  🌱☘️🌺🌿😋🐢☀️

🌱  My personal garden grows the Russian tortoise seed mix from Carolina Pet Supply!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!  ☘️  May you all be blessed with good health, good luck, and good cheer today and every day!  🌈💚

Mom let me inspect her decorating job on a big sugar cookie shamrock.  I give these pretty green sprinkles and frosting my hearty CHOMP of approval!  🍪☘️😋

❗️  Do not actually feed cookies to your shelled friends!  Mom took this cookie away before I got any in my tummy.  😫

#tbt when Mom found the rare Shamrock Tortoise GRUMPing for cuddles on St. Patrick’s Day!  ☘️😤🐢💚

Six!, Part 3 (Parts 0, 1, and 2)

Thank you for all your birthday wishes!  I feel so loved!  🥰

As a special thank you, we present to you a (condensed) video of my cake CHOMPing!  I was so excited about my delicious birthday cake that Mom thought my eyes were going to pop out!  👀😋🐢😂

(Watch to the end to see the bonus treat I got on top of my cake!  😍)

#KirbyChompsSix  🎉🎂6️⃣🎊

Six!, Part 2 (Parts 0 and 1)

Birthday cake is hard to nom when it’s twice as tall as you, so Mom toppled my cake for me!

Bonus photo from the gif above:

I may have picked off all the yummy flowers first...

I also have no idea what happened to Brunhilda’s hat.  Definitely had nothing to do with me.

Six!, Part 1 (Part 0 here)

It’s my birthday!  Today marks six whole years since I first met Mom as a wee hatchling!  Let the shellebration begin!

This year, Brunhilda helped Mom make me a big watermelon + wildflowers cake!

Dandelions, clover, and a delicious surprise:  A brand new nom I never tried before, wild chicory flowers!

Mom told me to sit still for photos with my un-nommed cake first.  As if!

Of course, Mom took a zillion photos of my cake nomming.  Stay tuned for more cake CHOMPs!

* We don’t know the exact day I hatched, so since I was born not long before I met Mom, we celebrate as my birthday the day I showed up on Mom’s doorstep in a FedEx box!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!  ☘️  Finding the rare Shamrock Tortoise brings good luck and cute GRUMPs!  ☘️😤🐢💚

Green is the color of noms, but where are the noms?!

If you have noms for me, I shall bless you with lots of good luck!

The Shamrock Tortoise cannot stay long!  Onwards to the next lucky nom-bringer!

But wait!  For even more good luck, give the Shamrock Tortoise cuddles!

Five!, Part 9 (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, and 13)

It’s a bit late because of Mom’s trip last week, but it’s finally here:  My birthday video!  We have gotten requests for more ASMR videos of me nomming, so Mom filmed ALL of my flower-filled cake nomming!  Sound up to hear me munch, especially in the second half!  🔊

🔚  Plus, watch to the end for bonus crunching!

Five!, Part 3 (Parts 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13)

After my initial excitement over finding dandies on my birthday cake, I took a closer look at the rest of my cake and discovered so many yummy surprises!  Of course, I went straight for my #1 favorite nom ever:  Radicchio!

...It’s a good thing Grandmom blew out my candle for me as soon as I discovered the radicchio in my cake!