Lack of sleep!

Lately, the whole McWilliams family has had some serious lack of sleep. It seems like the person who has or is suffering the most is, no, not me, but sweet Jake. He has never been a great sleeper. A few months ago, he started waking up in the middle of the night just screaming. We guessed that he was having night terrors. Let me tell you, nothing will bring you to the Lord quicker than watching your child go ballistic in the middle of the night and not being able to calm him down- as much as you try. It was like he was being tortured. My heart was being tortured just watching him. Then Jake got his first ear infection (this past late spring) and has 5 since then. Then he started cutting his 2 year molars. Then his world got turned upside down when mommy went away and came back with a new baby. Now we are dealing with 2 abscessed front teeth which evidently can be painful. Just saw a pediatric dentist and found out that they will have to be removed... another post! So with ALL of that, Jake has needed some serious help falling back to sleep when he wakes up in the middle of the night.

Last night was a rough one with the little man. So today, I decided that it was time for him to re-learn how to get back to sleep without mommy or daddy- yikes! I thought it would be better to start it during naps than in the middle of the night :) After about an hour of crying this afternoon, he was finally quiet and I went back to take a peek. This is what I saw...

Sweet little guy had fallen asleep standing up!