Late night blogging.

So, right now it is almost 2am and I am awake. Would I like to be asleep?...For sure, but there is a little boy in the room next to ours (Nate) who is NOT having a good night which means this Mommy gets to have a bad night too... oh JOY!! :)

My poor boy Nate has had the horrible luck of having growing pains for the last few years and even though they aren't all the time when he gets them it REALLY sucks!!! The growing pains will sometimes happen and we might have clues that they will be happening when he starts eating like a crazy man and showing signs of growing. However, sometimes (like tonight) they will come out of nowhere...no growing signs, just pain.

I remember having growing pains when I was a little kid and they were horrible (Wayne had them as well)....and now to have my little one go through them is sooooo not fun. The poor little guy will go from sleeping to screaming and when you rub his leg/s the muscles can be as hard as a rock (like a charlie-horse) or sometimes they just hurt. All we can do for him is gently rub his legs, wrap them with a warm rice bag, and if they are REALLY bad we will give him Tylenol.

So right now our poor little guy has both legs wrapped with a rice bag, has had a dose of Tylenol, a good rub, and is trying to fall back asleep and until he does this Mommy will just wait. I've learnt that going to sleep before he is in a deep sleep on nights like this isn't worth while because he can be crying and needing me every 5 minutes until he gets past the worst part of them. So I figured, this is one of those things that even though it sucks I would like to remember that we went through it when Nate was younger.