Lawrence told me this morning about a nightmare he had last night about Transformers coming to his school and killing him and his friends. He paused and added, “But I’m trying to move past it.”

I have no idea what this means. Lawrence said it means he got a little funny.
Figuring out their minds is a full-time job, I swear.

Lawrence told me yesterday that he and his friend Ava are “getting married together” when they’re older.

I was waiting in Lawrence’s room tonight, as he was supposed to go get his favorite stuffed animals, Monkey and Blue, when I heard him say, “We’re rich!” It took a few seconds for me to realize what in the world he was talking about. I had just brought out from the garage the gold-plated […]

“Mommy, all the furniture in our house talks. I know because my dresser said to me, “Lawrence, wake up.”

There are times when your child does something that makes you love them so fiercely that you almost can’t bear it.
George is in New Orleans this week, so I’ve been dropping Lawrence off at my parents’ house before I go to work. They give him breakfast and take him to school (it is so wonderful […]

I spent most of Mother’s Day in the hospital. Below you can see the picture of my poor baby, Lawrence, hooked up to an IV. He had been feverish (up past 104 degrees) and throwing up the previous week. We had taken him to his pediatrician two days after it started. He found that both […]

So here we are three months after Lawrence finally became toilet trained. It’s as wonderful as I thought it would be. Not only do I not have to change poopy diapers anymore, but a lot of the pants that I thought were getting too small get another few months in them now that he doesn’t […]

“Mommy, I can teach you how to pee standing up.”

Loving hug and kiss between mother and son.
“I love you, honey.”
“I love you too, Mommy.”
Then:
“Mommy, I got snot in your hair.”