Armadillo Tuesday

My friend Madison, from Lawrence, had a random obsession for armadillos. When we were doing homeschool together we had science on Tuesday, and Tuesday became armadillo day. I found myself thinking about how I'd never seen a live armadillo, maybe one at the zoo, but I didn't remember one from there. I have now excuse now that we live in southwest Missouri because their are wild armadillo's. Well It had been about 5 weeks and I was yet to see a live armadillo. I'd seen dead ones on the highway, seen them while biking, and driving by them on the local streets.
On a recent trip Saturday evening trip to the oh so close Bass Pro Shop we were riding on a road that had some Ozark forest and hills. We happened to come upon a miracle a LIVE ARMADILLO!!!!!!(I forgot to mention that we all had given up on seeing a live one and they were the family joke) The armadillo was in the middle of the road and we were able to stop about 5 feet before it was another dead one. We all jumped out of our seats and opened the door to stare in wonder. It was small and looked exactly one in a picture, waddling a long with a little tail. Its exoskeleton looked really cool. It had a long nose and pure black eyes. We found out why you never so a long one, that is because they take their time crossing the road. I didn't mind it because it gave us a lot off time to look at the armadillo.
I know my mom will want to post some more about it and she will have another paragraph or two to add about funny things we said or did in reaction.
Lamar is going great and I'm really starting to fit in.

Must dispel . . .

. . . the impression that I took the football shots. Indeed, I did not. They were taken by a local photographer and are posted on the web for purchase. We will be purchasing some of them! If for some reason you would like your own copies, let us know, or visit the lamarmo.com link noted at the side of the page. Choose "Tiger Sports," then "Tiger Action Photos," then "Misc. Photos," then the Sept. 7 game. There were several more of Jacob as well.

Budding football pro--FIxed the links!

Jacob's first football game was last night, September 8! Check out these photos (I have fixed the links that didn't work over the weekend):

Jacob is ready

Jacob up close

Jacob in action

Jacob with tape holding up his leg pads

Budding philosopher

Wednesday night, as I was walking the dog around the park and Meredith was tooling along on her bike behind me, she said:

Mom, is the other side of the world in front of my bike, or behind my bike?

Lipstick. 'Nuf said.

The Lamar house

About everytime we see my uncle we have this big present opening thing. He has about 30-50 things anywhere from a computer bag to chocolate/banana candy bars from Asia. Last time we saw him he happened to have a camera. I suprisingly got it and now have a digital camera. Coincidently, just a few days after I got it I was grounded. So now that I'm ungrounded, have a digital camera, and have settled into school, I can blog. Here are a few pictures from our house, I anybody wants to see pictures of different room or different angles please post a comment and I'd be happy to take a snapshot. Jake the Great



This is the stairs going from the basement to the main floor, this area is probably the most traveld on in the whole house.




This is my mom's office. Not the whole thing but a good shot at her utra rare O'sullivan desk.




In my house I considered like this. When you go down your not going to **** but to Heaven. When you go up your going straight to ****. This room is also known as Sophia's room.




The front door, has a lotta glass huh?