It wasn't the weather

Apparently darling Thomas has determined that 5:15 is in fact the time that we should all get up! We're still doing the "cry-it-out" thing, but he's only going back to sleep for 10 minutes after 30 minutes of crying.  So.... it seems that it's because he's starving!  He's eating his full bottle plus food 3 times a day - he can't eat a lot of food, but it's more and more every day.  We fed him as much as he could take all day today and hope that it helps.  If he wakes up at 5:15 tomorrow, we're going to feed him a bottle in the dark in his room and hope we can put him right back to sleep.  We'll see.......  This morning, Tom let me go back to bed and he stayed with Thomas until he went back to sleep.  It was heaven- I got to sleep until 8:30.  We've also discovered that putting Thomas to bed earlier helps him go to sleep faster.  Tonight it only took 5 minutes after we put him in his crib - he was out at 6:50.  We hate putting him to sleep so early if he can only sleep 10 or 11 hours, but it's clearly the time he's tired and if we wait later, he screams for 30 minutes to go to sleep, wakes at the same early hour, and is much less happy. Maybe as he starts eating more during the day and taking shorter naps, he'll sleep longer at night - hey, we can dream right?  We took him to the park after his last nap today - it was really warm so we took off his socks and let him "stand" in the grass.  He's fun to watch while he's doing new things.  We're thrilled that the weather is getting warmer and that the park is close to the house.  We sometimes only have 30 or 45 minutes between his last nap and his bath, so we can only get out for a few minutes.  But what a great few minutes they were!!!!  We continue to be really happy and feel really lucky that we have such a great little boy in our lives.