Our 19 month old toddler asks to go to bed–at both nap time and bed time.  There are the rare nap times where he will just crash on the floor while he is playing with his blocks or something but for the most part he lets us know he wants to go to bed.  How does he do this you ask?  Well he either says please when asked if he wants to go to bed or he will grab his binky, his juice and walk to the bottom of the stairs and say please.  I know it is rather cute.  In my conversations with other parents I have deduced and been told that this isn’t normal.  I have to say I am shocked as Minnow is my first child.  We didn’t do anything spectatcular to enduce this sort of sleep compliance other than we have always let him “decide” when it was bedtime.  We never really created a bedtime routine.  We did start putting him in bed awake when he was about 11 months old–so that he would learn to put himself to sleep.  Maybe because we let him set his own sleep schedule naturally he finds going to bed a good thing and not something he is forced to do.  I am of course hoping that this pattern continues, but I am sure that we will soon find that going to bed will be the last thing he wants to do.  Until then…I will enjoy my little man who likes going to bed.