Turtle for Kaegen

Well, I've started the turtle for my new nephew. It's a challenge because I don't really know how to crochet and I"m sort of 'going with the flow' on the pattern. I've looked at a few pictures of cute amigurumi and I'm piecing it together.
I made the first red shell and didn't like it. I was really put out but the book Amigurumi World has a tiny turtle in there with a red shell so I tried it out. In the end, I scrapped the first shell and re-crocheted it into something a bit more 'turtle-shell' like. If you look at the original picture, it looks more like a conch shell than a turtle shell.

SCRAPPED:

Original 'shell' above was scrapped yesterday. See new 'shell' below:

FINAL:

Next step: body .... head, legs, tail..