Best baby EVER

I'm a little superstitious about publishing this post because I don't want to jinx what's been going on in my house :) We find that the best time to put Nicholas to bed is around six... and then he'll usually sleep for five hours before waking up for the next feeding. Yesterday he slept for SEVEN HOURS! Doesn't that count as sleeping through the night? He fed at 1:30 and then went back to sleep (which, thankfully has never been a big problem at night) and didn't wake up again until 8:30!! We went in to check on him twice because we were a little worried, but he was fine...sleeping soundly. Fluke, we thought. It had happened once before when Mando thought he had eaten at 3:00 and so when he woke up at 4:00 to eat, Mando just lulled him back to sleep---what Mando didn't realize was that I fed him at 12:30, not 3:00. oops. Anyway, other than our negligent parent moment, he usually sleeps three-five hours at a time during the night, which is still pretty darn great for a newborn. We weren't expecting him to sleep through the night for another month at least. But last night---he did it AGAIN! Seven hours! If we were putting him to bed at 9:00 we'd be getting a seriously great night's rest! But the problem is that we put him to bed at 6:00 (which is when he naturally gets really really tired), so we're still waking up at 1 or 2 in the morning. We'll see if this is a trend or just a product of a couple of late nights (christmas parties, etc. that keep him awake longer than he normally would be).