When Sam exclaimed, “Mommy let’s go outside and dig for dinosaurs!” I was a tad sceptical. Very sceptical. Who put him up to this — Sid the Science Kid, Curious George, or the ultra-whinyCailloux? I was willing to bet that Batman didn’t dig deep — nor Lightning McQueen for that matter. Well, wherever he got the crazy cute-kid idea, it was here to stay.
Before I knew it, we were out there digging away, Sam with his plastic shovel, which was a toy that came with his latest Chick Fil-A kids’ meal. I had my metal hand shovel, at least for a while. Eventually Sam wised up that the toy shovel, although cute, was not going to unearth dinosaur bones to fill a museum anytime soon. (Neither was my hand shovel, but it at least seemed more likely, which it probably was!)
So after a few intense minutes of hard-core digging, he started to ask, “When are we going to find some dinosaur bones?” I didn’t want to burst his big ole bubble by openly guffawing in his earnest little face, but I didn’t want to lead him on that he was about to become the Louis Leaky of his times in the next ten minutes. I did tell him that he was quite a dedicated archaeologist, though, which was technically true. No harm, no fowl, right? So we kept on digging and then read the Sesame Street tome on dinosaurs, “A Visit to the Museum” for inspiration.
I think some sort of reality must have set in when I said that the dinosaur bones were really, really deep. Then he started to ask where our family digger was. Oh my. Our family digger says “Tonka” on the side, is made out of plastic, and fits in the palm of my hand, little guy. Thankfully it was time for juice box break, and then I was saved by the rain. (Rain does come in handy once in a while even though we have been living in a monsoon lately.) But as Scarlett O’Hara said, “Tomorrow is another day!” Maybe you’ll be reading about our archaeological discoveries on the front page of the paper and you can say you knew us when… Then again, maybe not.
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