Lords and Love

Layne, age 3

Layne is going through a medieval phase (long with Star Wars and pirates). He is hungrily reading anything he can get his hands on regarding knights, lords, castles, moats, etc. As I am reading these volumes of information with him, I am learning a lot myself. Last night, while sitting in my bed reading, we stumbled upon information regarding Lords and Ladies getting married. I told him that Lords and Ladies usually were married by age 14 and they were arranged marriages. This totally blew his mind and it furthered baffled him that often they didn't meet who they were marrying until the wedding day. I could see his little mind working and knew from his the look on his face that he really needed to tell me something. He took my hand and said, "Mommy, I love you. If you want to make me marry someone I understand. I just want you to know that I don't want her to wear glasses. So, pick any girl you think is cute, but just no glasses.". Well.... do I laugh or not? He was so serious when he was telling me this. There was great relief on his face when I told him there were laws in place that would keep him from marrying anyone at age 14. Then there was more.... 

"Mommy, when we go to lunch at school we can't talk the first five minutes. This is because we need those five minutes to eat." (I am amazed that he can eat in five minutes- it takes him a lot longer during dinner.) "Today we were at lunch and B (I will not use her name) signed to me that she loves me. Then someone told her that she couldn't sign to anyone because that was talking even though you aren't saying anything. I tried to sign back "ok" but I forgot how to and just ignored her." I just smiled, nodded, and asked him if anything else happened at school that was interesting. He then informed me that if I am choosing how he marries, then maybe I need to see if her parents would want her to marry him because she loves him, doesn't wear glasses, and likes Legos too but maybe we could wait until they could drive. 

So, as Sir Layne and I continue down this path of discovery, I am going to cherish these moments with my little boy because it is becoming more and more obvious, children today grow up far too quickly.