Routines

Our daily routine roughly looks like this..
7/8am - wake up & get ready for the day (teeth and hair brushed, diapers and clothes changed)
8:30/9am - breakfast
12:30/1pm - lunch
2pm - nap/quiet time
4:30/5pm - get up from nap/come down from quiet time
(movie time while I make dinner)
6/6:30pm - dinner
9/9:30pm - bath, brush teeth, Bible time & go to bed

Any open time in our routine is playtime..preferably outdoors if weather permits.

My 14 month old’s schedule is very similar to the one above except we take a walk every morning before breakfast and every evening after dinner.
We’ve added in one to two structured activities a day. I found that the structured activities really helped me get my other stuff done in the other hours and encouraged independent play other times. We do 1 or 2 15-30 min activities that are focused on a theme for the week like colors or farm animals. Sometimes I pull these from Instagram but a lot of times I have ChatGPT help me make a schedule for the week of activities. Things like hide and seek with animals sidewalk chalk focused on the colors giving your animals a bath.