OMG, Y'all!

I only wish I had a picture to document the amazing phenomenon that was my youngest daughter's "sleep training" last night. I used the cry-it-out technique (CYO) with both of the older girls very successfully, but I did it before they were a year old. I'm not sure why I waited so long with KayKay, but that might be the reason it was a bit different this go-round. It wasn't that it took any longer than the others, or that she was any less heart-breaking (I'll talk more about that later) but she certainly was different in one regard. Y'all, she fell asleep standing up!
First she cried for about 30-40 minutes, which was heartbreaking, especially because she can talk, so in between gut-wrenching sobs, she would moan, "Mommyyyyyy!", or "Booooooobie!" Then she sat down and started to nod off.
Have you ever watched someone try to fall asleep on an airplane? That's what this looked like, except the tiny passenger in this case also happened to be in prison and was clutching the bars as if she were about to holler for the warden. So try to picture this baby:

sitting at the edge of the crib, gripping the bars at just about head level, dozing off, with the whole jerky head thing causing her to bonk her head into the crib bars every few jerks. After a few minutes of this I tried to guide her to lay down, but this just woke her up enough to start crying again and stand up. Then she fell asleep standing up! She just laid her head on the edge of the crib and drifted off.
After a few minutes of this she jerked herself awake and sat down again and fell asleep again. Then finally after a while I gently guided her down and she started to cry but just for a second and then fell asleep. Whew!
So tonight I expected a bit more drama. She only cried for about six or seven minutes, then sat down. She sat there and stared at me for a couple of minutes (doubtless plotting my demise) and then fell asleep. After only a couple of minutes, she turned around and laid herself down and that was that!
I just went in to check on her and found this:

Ahhh! A house full of sleeping children! What bliss!