the dinosaur

You know what we called my little brother when he was little?    Babe-er-shi-momp-shi-gen


Well, that's how we said it, we never spelled it and for some reason that name has stuck in my head all these  years.


He is the boy, the baby, the youngest after us three sisters. And we did baby him. We tucked him under the covers  in our doll's bed. He crawled around the floor playing the baby in our make-believe home... until he got old enough to say "I want to be the dinosaur!"