I'm not going to bother anymore with forcing the sleep issue

Because tonight I just let him do what he wanted to do in his room and gave up on trying to get him to go to sleep. He was still up around 9:30 just looking at books in his rocking chair and would not get in bed but then 20 minutes later I went up and this is what I found.



Probably not the best way for him to fall asleep but it definitely beats what we have been doing for the last 2 weeks. I'd rather he just go to sleep on his own like that and still be able to get stuff done at night and just have a few hours to ourselves rather than rock/sing/bribe for 2 hours until he falls asleep with us laying on the floor next to him. I transferred him from the chair to the bed and he stayed asleep. I think this is going to be our new routine.