Baptized or Bathtized?

I came across the most hilarious thing earlier this week while my kids were playing in the bathtub! As I was busy straightening the bathroom up, they started pouring water on each others' heads. I didn't pay much attention at first, because they love to pour cups of water all over the place in the bathtub. Then I looked back and this is what I heard and saw:

Jenna: Abby, lean back because I am going to bathtize you.
Abby: No, Ja Ja (her name for Jenna)
Jenna: Come on, Abby. I'll be Daddy, and you be the baby.
Abby: Okay Ja Ja.

Abby leans her head back and Jenna pours water on her head and says, "Now you're bathtized into God's family. Yay Abby!"

After I laughed under my break, as not to interrupt this hilarous site, I wondered if Jenna forgot that Abby had already been baptized. Hmmm. . . And I also wondered if they are really interchanging the words "baptize" and "bathtize" or if "bathtize" is just the bathtub version of the baptisms Daddy does at church. I'll have to ask Jenna.

So today, there was a baptism at church and both girls happened to still be in church at that point. (Abby usually makes it to the sermon and then we take her to the nursery.) The conversation between them went like this:

Jenna: Hey Abby, that little baby is getting baptized just like us!
Abby: No baff (bath) Ja Ja (Jenna). Where the baff (bath)?

I hope one day, my children understand the real meaning of being baptized, but for now it seems to be a fun game they play in the bathtub.

Go ahead . . . I'm sure you are all thinking that I'm a terrible pastor's wife/mommy who lets her kids play baptism in the bathtub. Hey, at least they get that a baptism includes water!

I can't wait to share this story with them when they are 12:)