Julia never complains about physical ailments unless they’re pretty severe, so I was surprised when, during her bath tonight, she rubbed her legs and said, “Daddy, my legs hurt last night, when I was sleeping.” I quizzed her a bit to see if she had fallen during the day or had slept on her leg or something, but she just repeated that her legs “just hurt” – even to the point of waking her up.
I finally shrugged and told her that she might have been having growing pains. “What’s that?” she asked. “They’re pains that some kids get when their muscles and bones are growing, and their arms and legs might start to hurt.” She looked off into the distance, thinking, then looked back at me: “Well, maybe that’s what it was. I did get older over night. Do I look taller to you?”