Sleep? Ain't Nobody Got Time for That

Our daughter has had trouble falling asleep since birth.  Now once she is asleep she is out like a rock, I mean nothing wakes her.  She has never been one to get up in the middle of the night multiple time. You can move her and change her and everything and she will absolutely not wake up.  The trick is in falling asleep.  She can stay up til 1 in the morning some nights.  She has not taken naps since before she was two because she has such trouble going to sleep at night.  We have tried everything we can think of. Bedtime routines with a a bath and then a calming atmosphere, running her around until she is so worn out she surely couldn't keep her eyes open and every time she surprises us and is up after we have fallen asleep.  I have mentioned before that we co sleep.  This is another reason it works for us.  She will be up watching videos on the ipad and we are able to go to sleep and not worry about if she gets out of bed since she is right next to us.  Now before you start jumping up and down about screen time being the problem I can assure it is quite the opposite.  Screen time is literally the only thing that stops her long enough in order to be still enough to have a snowball's chance in haities to fall asleep.  Screen time is most certainly our friend at bedtime.  I remember the good ol' days of being able to take her for a ride in the car and she would fall asleep and we could take her inside and put her to bed.  Then those rides started getting longer and longer.  We had to pick back-roads that would be boring and didn't have many chances for lit up signs (especially a certain restaurant with golden arches).  Eventually those rides started going for longer than an hour with her still awake and we realized that this avenue of sleep coercion was not going to work any more.  Our bedtime routine now consists of going to the potty, getting in a warm bed in warm pjs, putting a few drops of "calm" (lavender oil) on said pjs and getting under the covers.  The covers are somewhat new because until recently she really couldn't stand to be under a blanket.  I have to make sure she always has pj pants on because most nights she will kick the covers off still and curl up in my back for warmth, which is not comfortable to say the least.  Anyhow... back to our bedtime "routine".  After getting comfy in bed she will play a game on the ipad and then we make her change it to a video to watch and we typically roll over and go to sleep.  At some point she falls asleep as well.  It isn't a perfect system and my husband and I miss sitting up together and having quiet time in the evenings before we go to bed but that is just not what our lives look like right now.