Introducing... Did You Know? Fridays

Starting this week, I will post a little-known fact each Friday about one of our family members. Who knows? If you keep reading, you may discover a deep, dark secret about one of us, or find that you or your children have something quite in common with our family!

Today on "Did You Know..."

Did you know, do you have any idea, how much my David LOVES dinosaurs? Did you know that "dino" was one of his first words?  Even at a very young age, he built with them,

loved on them,


and slept with them!


He was so enraptured with these prehistoric creatures, that one time he even "baptized" one!  Alas, we did not catch the event on film, but my mother's literacy skills relate the excitement better than any camera:

HOLY BRONTOSAURUS!

The Mass was close to starting

And the church was getting crowded

That David would be quiet

Was a concept we all doubted.

'Cause Alex was in "Little Lambs"

And couldn't entertain him

And Grandma, Papa, Mom and Dad

Were hard pressed to restrain him.

So Daddy carried David

Through the busy gathering space

Into the back of church and there

Was David's favorite place!

The huge and glistening water pool

Had always mystified him

So Dad was smart to keep that

Curious youngster close beside him.

But David saw the big folks

Dip their fingers in the pool

So of course He begged to do it!

Why, that kid was no one's fool!

Well, Daddy picked him up and

Leaned him closer to the font

So he could get his chubby hands

As wet as he might want.

Then all too late Dad saw the thing

Clutched tight in Davy's hand ...

The plastic dinosaur he brought

From home, as contraband.

Now David thought a second,

Then he LAUNCHED that dinosaur,

And the "SPLASH!!!" that resonated

Thrilled him to his very core!

"Quick! Get it!" hollered Daddy

But poor Davy was too little

The plastic toy bobbed placidly

Out somewhere in the middle.

An usher, grinning, reached out

But the pool was far too wide

So heedless of his soaking cuffs

He 'waved' it to the side.

And in a bit it bobbed till it was

Close enough to capture

Then reunited with his toy,

Young David smiled in rapture.

By then that solemn house of God

Was rife with stifled giggles.

And David celebrated with

His usual squirms and wiggles.

So if a pagan Pteranodon

Or heathen T-Rex finds you

I hope the thought of David's

Little escapade reminds you...

That even plastic dinosaurs

Are precious in God's sight

And two-year-olds can baptize

.... If their timing is just right!

--by Linda S.