Sleeping Patterns

We just put Dawson down for the night and he is out like a light. His sleeping habits have started to become more consistent. Following the advice from Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, I've been keeping a sleep journal, tracking his sleeping patterns. The author, who is a doctor specializing in children's sleep habits, wrote that kids under four months should stay awake no more than than 2 hours straight and should be allowed to sleep whenever they're tired. At four months, parents start working to establish a napping schedule.
This seems to be a much more balanced approach than what was suggested (no, commanded) in Baby Wise. But while we've discarded the advice on the nap schedule, what we took away from Baby Wise was the need for a feeding schedule.
Dawson has been sleeping for about 10 hours at night, waking up twice to eat but immediately going back to sleep after being changed and fed. That's been very nice but it's lead to the amazing miracles we've experienced the past two nights.
On Thursday night, Dawson slept 8 straight hours! We put him down at 9:30 and he didn't wake up until 5:30. Often, though after setting a new record for sleep, he'd shorten it by an hour or two the next night. I guess, technically he did shorten it the next night, but only by an hour, meaning he slept 7 straight hours on Friday night! Simply amazing.
Maybe this is a move toward a full night's sleep for mommy and daddy?

Wait, I hear some whimpering. Maybe tonight won't be that easy. Dawson had a rough day today, very fussy.