3:00 am...

...is when this picture was taken. Lou seems to have come to the conclusion that separation anxiety is in fact a real thing and when he wakes up throughout the night and we aren't there he tends to get a little pissed. Add to that the fact that he can't seem to get the paci back in his mouth when he really needs it (even though he does it reasonably well during the day), and we've had a stretch of very sleepless nights. We have been so lucky with Lou and his sleep thus far, and I think perhaps we've taken him for granted a bit. He needs a better bedtime routine (he pretty much just gets thrown in the crib at bedtime) and so that's going to be the first step. You may notice in the 3:00 am picture that he's not even wearing pajamas. That might be part of the problem.