Kobe

I first met Kobe when he was a little first grader. He was in the class Room 8 was buddies with. I was hoping he would come to Room 8 when he was a fourth grader...and here he is!

Kobe told us he loves sports...all sports... He brought a baseball to show us. You can see from this picture that he absolutely does love baseball! He also likes to collect sports cards, well, actually 'sports stuff.' His brother gave him most of his cards, but Kobe started collecting sports cards himself when he was 3 years old. He actually has a Kobe Bryant card, but he couldn't find it so he brought his Paul Pierce card instead. For those of you, like me, who don't know - Paul Pierce plays for the Celtics.

Kobe also likes to fish. On August 12, 2007, he caught a shark! He told us it was about 6.5 or 7 feet long! Here's a picture of the picture he brought from that day:
Kobe also likes dogs. He has a dog named 'Grizzly'. He had a picture of Grizzly as a puppy, but said now he's grown up and evil. Evil? Austin J said Grizzly was VICIOUS! Um? I didn't get a very good impression of Grizzly.

Well, he has another dog - Buddy. We didn't hear much about Buddy, except that Max also has a dog named Buddy.

One thing I had been hearing from Kobe over these first two weeks of school is how he loves Guitar Hero... He talks about it a lot... So I wasn't surprised when he had a Guitar Hero game in his bag. However, he didn't have one game, he had 5! He talked about the different games and how long it had taken him to 'beat' it. His favorite is #3, Legends of Rock.
Kobe also collects cars. He brought a little yellow Pontiac Firebird to show us. He said if it was real, it would probably go 160 mph. His favorite kind of car, which he plans on getting, is a Shelby GT 500. He told us it was like a 'muscle car'. His brother has a car now... and Kobe told us he had made some changes to it so it would also go 160 mph. The mom in me told Kobe to stay out of the car. He just grinned...and said it was fun!