fighting off a cold. apparently both my kids are also fighting off or succumbing to colds, at varying degrees of severity. younger one woke me up twice last night complaining that their hand or legs hurt. this happens often, and i'm extremely sympathetic to growing pains, because this happened to me basically my whole childhood.

older one also woke me up because of a nightmare. "it was like fires of rubicon. sharp and jagged robots". yikes, did not expect armored core to give my kids nightmares. wut.