double decker ARMADILLO

This photo is terribly out of focus because the habitat was dimly lit, but it is still clear who went to sleep first.

Yellow armadillos snoozing,
naptime at the zoo.
These guys are usually playing
But today there's something new:
A double-decker armadillo,
one stacked on the other!
I wonder how they choose
just who's to snooze on top its brother.
Do they chat about it nicely?
Do they argue? Flip a dime?
Have a gentlemen's agreement?
Is it different every time?
In the middle of the night,
Does their mother make them swap?
I think whoever stays awake the longest
Gets to sleep on top!

About this poem: My kids and I visit the zoo so often we've named many of the animals. These little yellow armadillos we call Malcolm and Griffin, after my boys. They're usually digging in the sand or chasing each other playfully (I think....). Not today. "Armadillo" is an easy rhyme with "pillow," but there were no pillows in sight today--just an armadillo bunk bed!

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