Thanks for all the advice!

So, I just wanted to respond to all the great advice from everyone, here on the blog, those that called and everyone else. I found some sleep tracking sheets online and I am trying to track his sleep patterns. I have started NOT giving him a bottle once he initially goes down until after 5 am- which has seemed to be fine. I am wondering if he had a bug and that is why he was puking, but he just hasn't seemed his calm, mellow self lately. He has been fighting me on his early (around 9am) naps so the last 2 days I held him off till Noon and he slept for an hour then and napped again in the late afternoon for over 3 hours. I totally know the more he sleeps in the day the more he sleeps at night. Last night was great, he only got up once at about 3, unfortunately I was up till 1 thinking he was gonna get up at anytime...my bad.

I am pretty sure he is going through a growth spurt and that may be causing his discomfort, so I am giving him Motrin in the night if I think he really needs it, as well as the Hylands Teething Tablets- which are FABULOUS. I also got a smaller fan in his room that makes a bit more noise than his ceiling fan and that seems to especially help when he is napping and his loud big brother is home. I also started giving his post bath massage with the night time lavendar lotion, instead of regular lotion, and that really seems to help relax him.

Sorry I was a whiny Mom in the last blog, but like the title said, I was really, really tired! Basically, I have realized I need to rework MY attitude about his sleeping, and suck it up and try to let him cry it out. I totally don't guarantee I will succeed--- so if any of you CIO Mom's wanna volunteer to stay at my house for a few nights and do the hard part for me, I am up for takers!
I think I am also going to take him in to the pediatrician and see if she has any other advice. I have heard of something called "Startlers" which is similar to night terrors, which not so shockingly, Braden suffers from (who says babies don't remember things...) I have also read alot about sleep patterns and this is the jist of what I learned...that in normal sleep, a child cycles between light sleep and deep sleep. Each light sleep stage is a time when the child is more likely to wake up. Infants go through a complete sleep cycle about every 50-60 minutes, so they are in light sleep and could wake up many times each night! So basically, he could just be getting 'stuck' between cycles -whew! Who knows! Why kids don't come with a personalized owner's manual is beyond me!
But I really wanted to say thanks to everyone who was willing to listen to me grip and help with my cranky boy!