growing pains

Today I am exhausted.
My sweet 9 month (tomorrow) babe is teething his top front teeth AND learning how to pull up, crawl, and guided walk. Whoosh. The last few days, he has been a totally different baby. Our "perfect" routine of going to bed around 8:00 and waking up at 8:00 is out the window (for now, knock on wood).
Last night we gave him his usual night bottle at the usual night time, and let him play and wear himself out until he showed signs of tiredness. The tiredness came around 9:30. We put him in his bed. Waited. Tick Tock. Nope. I mean, screaming crying. We took him out of his bed. I KNOW...this is a problem, but what do you do? We let him play more and ended up giving him another bottle at 10:30. My question would be, was he really hungry? Cause he was sucking it down as if he didn't eat all day. Do teething babies gain an appetite? And before I tried to put him down again, I wanted to exhaust my options. At 11:00, we put him back down. Again, screaming. Poor guy. Not five minutes later, he throws up in his bed from crying so much. Awesome. By 11:30, we're in the car, and we don't even get out of the neighborhood, and he's out. He woke up again at 3:00 am with me for yet another bottle, some tylenol, and a LONG walk around the house until he fell asleep in my arms and I laid him in his bed. He woke up this morning at 10:30. Needless to say, we're off schedule, and I don't know what to do. I welcome any advice.

The good thing is I love mothering. This is my job right now and I think I do it pretty well. I feel like these trials as of late have led me to reevaluate my time and priorities, and have made me and Will be on our knees before the Lord.

After our rough night, I couldn't wait to see Ben's shining face when he woke up this morning.