Another "we'll never do that as parents" fails

Last night, for the first time in Joel's almost 16 months of life, we tried to drive him to sleep. Sadly, we failed. He basically spent the 30 minutes or so we spent driving eating crackers, trying to push all the crosswalk buttons and chatting to himself. Dan and I just tried to stay awake long enough to make him tired. It was 1:30am after all and we'd been up for three hours with him. Did I mention how much we hate his gassy nights? I guess we'll just add this to the list of things we said we would never do as parents and actually did. It can sit there right along with sleeping in the same bed and letting him cry it out. (By the way, the last one doesn't work either! Come to think of it, neither one works well. Maybe the lesson to be learnt is don't give in!)