Who has time for sleep?

My little man has decided that sleep is highly overrated. Especially if him sleeping means mom and dad might get some sleep too. He will gladly snooze away in the car, at a Christmas party, through meeting his grandpa, and saying bye to his uncle, but the second we might be able to doze off too, he is wide awake and fussing! This also holds true any time we try to sit down and eat dinner, try to check email, fold laundry, empty the dishwasher, etc. Basically, he has a sixth sense about the worst possible times to start crying and goes for it full force!

Jeff started his new job yesterday, and being home with Cole for 12 hours a day is draining. Not to mention I don't want to just toss him at Jeff when he walks in the door. I hope we get some sort of "normal" routine established soon, even if it's just that Cole and I sleep in til 10 everyday, and then stay in our pajamas and play. Currently, our day goes something like this:

-Fuss and doze off and on, with some nursing sessions from about 9am until 2pm or so
-Possibly take a decent nap (maybe even in the pack n play!) from 2ish until 3:30/4pm or so
-Fuss and make preparing dinner very difficult from late afternoon until about 7pm
-Jeff gets home and takes fussy baby
-We eat at about 7:10pm
-Get Cole changed for bed, and get ourselves all ready for bed
-Watch some tv or Jeff plays videogames while holding Cole so I can get fold laundry or pay bills or empty the dishwasher
-Feed Cole and hope he falls asleep (he does), and that you can lay him down (nope). This starts at about 8:15pm
-Rock for another hour (it's about 10pm now)
-Cole possibly sleeps from 10-midnight at the latest
-Cole is awake and mad at the world from midnight until at least 3am. I get immensely frustrated. Jeff takes a turn trying to get him to sleep. Nothing (swaddling, gas drops, the swing, the bouncer, bicycling his legs, nursing, rocking, singing, shushing, dark, light, massage, etc.) works. I give up and usually cry, deciding my baby must surely hate me because he. will. not. sleep.
-I take Cole back downstairs, giving up on ever sleeping in my own bed again, and sleep holding him on the couch. He, of course, sleeps for 3-4 hours, wakes to eat, and repeats the great sleeping til morning.
-End result is that my son will never learn to sleep without being held, Jeff and I will never get to eat or sleep at the same time ever again, and I will never get to spend another second sleeping on my fantastic mattress.

I was going to write more, but he's fussing again, so here's a quick picture. It's from the first day home from the hospital, because I honestly fail at photographing my son since those first few days when he was a quiet, content little baby. Now, if I'm not holding him, he's upset, and who wants a picture of that?