What is the deal little Al?!

So I powered through Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Baby, thank you Abbey (and Cary for giving me the book). I hate that he is always saying dramatic things like... "your baby will become an obese insomniac if he doesnt get enough sleep as a child" ... so I just skip those rediculous sentences. Other than that, I like the book. I was hoping to have a later bed time for Al, but with me working and having to wake him up at 6:30 every morning, he really needs to go down by 7. SO that is what we are doing. I bathe him or read to him and put his jammies on and then surprisingly he falls asleep around 7 or a little after. HOWEVER, he is waking up about 20 minutes later and fussing for about 2 hours! Seriously, it is like he knows that we are now trying to put him down for the night (as opposed to letting him wake up and play until 11pm) and is just fighting it. He is so tired though. Its not like he is awake and happy, he is awake and exhausted. So we comfort him when the crying gets really loud, but other than that we are trying to let him cry it out. It is so hard, but I know this is the best thing for him. He needs to sleep,... and so do I!