DS2 has woken up a couple of times in the last week or so complaining that his ear hurts and sobbing. It hasn't been every night, and generally once he's had calpol/neurofen (whichever I've pulled out the cupboard first) he's settled down ok and slept the rest of the night. Last night he woke up about 10ish settled down again then appeared in my bedroom at about 4 this morning saying that it hurt again (and ended up in bed with me - my boys have never climbed into bed with me in the night before)
During the day he's only complained of it hurting once - and that was about a week ago - although this morning he said that it does sometimes hurt during the day as well.
He's seems pretty much his normal self (lively, loud, boisterous) - but has been getting quite tired by the evenings (unusual for him) and been asking to go to bed early - and even falling asleep on the sofa. Again very unusual for him unless we've had a particularly busy day.