School schedule (both kids)
| Time | Activity | Notes |
| 7am (could be earlier) | wake & breakfast | do not wake - Reese will wake up on her own and leave bedroom |
| 8am | drive to school | bring ricky to his classroom first |
| 4:30pm | pick up from school | pick ricky up at his classroom first |
| 5:30pm | dinner | after dinner and before bath, Reese will want to watch Daniel Tiger (Amazon Kids, Season 5, episode 1) before bed |
6pm (ricky) 7pm (reese) | bath | can do every other day so you don't have to do two in one night (unless needed) - bed happens right after bath |
6:30pm (ricky) 7:30pm (reese) | bed | shades down, lights off, sound machine on, door closed start routine (for Reese, see below) |
Ricky's bedtime routine
- Diaper and PJs
- Can read to him if he's interested (sometimes extra whiny = tired, just get him to bed)
- Lights off and shades all the way down
- Sleep sack zipped all the way up with as many pacifiers as possible in crib
- Hatch on (touch silver ring on Hatch until blue light dims and white noise comes on)
- Shut door all the way
** if he wakes up in the middle of the night, don't change a thing, just walk in and give him a pacifier (there's likely one on the ground, can use phone as light source) and leave. If that doesn't work he sometimes needs a quick rocking and then to be put back in crib.
Reese's bedtime routine
- Bath (if needed, we do every other day) **recommended that cats are in basement with basement door shut (so they can't go upstairs) for the whole bedtime routine due to step 11
- Reese goes potty one last time and says "bye bye potty - see you tomorrow" and shuts the potty and puts on a pull up
- Reese brushes her teeth with a "tiny" amount of toothpaste and brushes using electric toothbrush until she spits pink
- In her bedroom: shades should be shut, main light should be off, pink light on side table should be on
- Reese picks out/puts on her PJs, socks, and scrunchie. She can pick out 3 pictures to look at on your phone while you brush her hair and put it in a bun using the scrunchie. Turn on "twinkle twinkle" on Hatch sound machine (Favorites > Blue w/star)
- Reese gets in bed and does "water and beds". This means she takes a sip of water out of her Princess Dixie cup and then looks at Ricky in the Nanit monitor on your phone and then looks at her room in the Nanit monitor on your phone
- Reese then reads her four books that are on her side table
- Turn pink side table light off and turn Hatch on (Favorites > Pink w/tv)
- Say goodnight, leave the room, and shut the door all the way
- If she gets upset - tell her you'll be right outside the door until she falls asleep. DO NOT sit/lay with her in bed. Hopefully the cats are in the basement by now and can't come upstairs to get into her room
- If she wakes in the middle of the night, repeat step 10. Make sure cats don't get in
- Her Hatch will automatically turn yellow at 6am which lets her know she can play in her room. Her Hatch will automatically turn green at 6:45am which lets her know she can leave her room.