Mr Sandman bring me a dream

Scott and I are still trying to learn Violet's likes and dislikes, and more importantly, what will help lull her to sleep. For the past couple of weeks, we've been having difficulty finding the various combinations of actions needed to convince her nighttime is for sleeping. We are fully aware some children are night owls (I'm looking at you, dear brother), but we are still optimistically hopeful.

We were given a swing by a coworker of Scott's who has two kids of his own and the younger one just recently outgrew the swing. When I ran out of ideas of how to soothe Violet after one of her feedings, I decided to have her try it out. The results were inconclusive--