How's the routine?

It's been a little over a month since I started the routine, and I realized I never followed up with an update. Things have definitely improved. There have been a few ups and downs - the downs were mostly a week or two after we started when he went through a major growth spurt and was starving all the time and waking up all night. But the past couple weeks have been GREAT!

Eli generally doesn't sleep very long in his morning nap, about an hour or so, but in his afternoon nap he always sleeps between 2 - 2 1/2 hours. A month ago I would have never believed that could happen. He would never sleep longer than 45 min. without waking up, but he does now! It's so great. He almost always takes a little catnap at 5 and then he's in bed by 7:30. Nights have definitely gotten better too. He usually wakes up 1-3 times in the night (always once to eat and then sometimes another time or two to get his pacifier), but that is SO much better than 5-6. In fact, last night he only woke up once after sleeping 10 hours!!! He slept from 7:15pm-5:15am, woke up and ate, and went back to sleep until 7:30am. WOW! (Oh, and I dropped the "dream feed" a few days after trying it. It just messed him up and made him wake up a bunch, so I ditched that and it's been great).

So in case you haven't guessed already, I'm really happy about this. :) It's amazing how much more I can get done and how much more rested I feel. I love it! And Eli loves it too. Speaking of the little guy, here are a few of the many faces of Eli:

Cute as a button:Most common, wide-eyed alert face:
Scary monster: (I'm sorry, but I can't look at this picture without cracking up! I'm so glad I caught this on camera. Haha.)
And of course, happy smiling boy: