The great experiment - Part 2

So we're 5 days into our experiment of putting Eli and Tobey in the same room overnight. The status? I could safely say things are slowly deteriorating.

I don't think things are deteriorating because Eli is sharing a room with Tobey. They sleep well together overnight, neither of them really waking up. Even the occasional random yelp from Eli seems not to bother Tobey, at least not enough to have Tobey wake up crying. But for whatever reason (irregular/tiring schedule because of visitors, new room/environment, brighter room in the morning, not being able to let him cry it out), Eli is gradually waking up earlier and earlier. Day 1, he woke up 6:45AM. Sunday morning it was 5:20. This morning it was yelps at 4:30 but then woke up for real at 5:30. I'm surviving the days because Tom's parents are around and Tobey has been a superchamp at going back to sleep even after Eli wakes him at the ungodly hour. But the insanity must stop and it must stop soon. Watch out Eli, starting Tuesday night, you're crying.

I'm also starting to wonder if Eli's waking is due to his deteriorating eating. He used to be a champion solids eater and now he's up and down. Is he bored of the same food all the time? Does he want finger food, not baby food? (He seemed to like to chomp on Cheerios today even after he's done with baby food.) Is our whole evening routine too much food and therefore hard to top him off at bedtime? I feel like I'll never know but I'm determined to find out. For Tobey, usually once he hit a milestone, he never looked back. And so this "deterioration" process that Eli is going through is a bit new to me.

My experiment's conclusion? I think Tobey and Eli can share a room someday but it's clear it's too early. Eli is still in that stage when he cries when he wakes up and that's just unfair to Tobey. It does make me think though that hosting guests at our house (i.e., usually just family anyway), while fun, takes its toll us.