Bedtime Routine | Nesting Story | Ep. 3

Bath time Okay, if I can get my other arm free, then you're all in big trouble Good evening, it's Joanna and I wanted to invite you to follow along with our bedtime routine with our four kids We just finished dinner and we need to do baths and showers It is a Sunday evening and we're about to jump into our school and daycare routine tomorrow So I wanted to show you how we tackle bedtime with four kids in our house Now our bedtime routine has evolved over the years. We have gone from having Babies to our twins when they were babies And it's always changed depending on age and my husband Mike's work schedule So he used to have a long commute. It's a bit shorter now. And so he's more involved in bedtime routine again So here's a bit of a flashback as to how our bedtime routines have evolved over the years We're going to see a video tonight I think tomorrow that I'm going to be working because my daddy and my Hold on, I'm going to the clients. So we're staying here with Dad and Beepa and me and Mommy and Everly and Mia and have to share a bed with them and have a movie night and have games Okay, time for baths and showers Bath time Okay, if I can get my other arm free Then you're all in big trouble Hold it stop flailing wildly Okay bath time What do we sing bath time? bath time for me and Everly Okay, can you carry two up Like that me I really had to figure out how this was gonna work. So initially Mike and I would take turns doing almost like Assembly line with the bed with the baby back and then eventually when I got a little older I used an inflatable bath inside the tub Now I bathed them together But I also do a couple of things to make my life a little easier One thing is I put a baby gate on their bedroom door this goes on at night And during bath time and getting them ready. Otherwise, they will just continuously run away from me Twins just finished up their bath and we're just getting them dressed Holden's in here helping us out as well, but We gotta get their diapers. So we keep their diapers We keep the diapers in their closet, I know we keep them down here and there's plastic bags and all that Which can be dangerous so we're mindful that when they're empty we we get rid of them We keep the closet latch shut. So now we got the diapers. There's no other reason to be in here So we latch it for two reasons first reason we latch it is For their safety so they can't get in there and get into things that would cause them harm during the night or during their naps and second reason is for our sanity because they've gotten in there before and they've taken every single diaper and Every single wipe out of all the containers we had in there and just littered the floors with them. So Yeah saves us from having to clean them up, you know, one of the things that we've learned kind of just like the Quick and dirty pressure-mounted baby gate on to the next stage of getting these Energetic monkeys to bed. Okay, it's time to brush our teeth and hair. Let's go So I find a really great way to distract them while I brush their hair is to have them brush their teeth And then you will floss in the bedroom With me kind of over them so you can do that trick and watch So I like to use these kind of flossers To floss their teeth, they actually don't seem to mind it. So what I do is I lay them on the ground I kind of pin them down, but I'm not putting any pressure on them, I'll show you So I should mention me and Everly are potty trained During the day, but at night they're still in diapers Yeah with our older kids that at some point when they're three probably a little ways off and we will potty train at night You are full of beans So just before the twins get in their bed, we leave them with sippy cups full of water multiple times throughout the night They would wake up and cry for more water. So if you fill it up once and they're pretty good They use it throughout the night just to the end and we don't fill it up so far. It's been okay We leave just one in there. We're good So just about story time gonna read some books but one of those last things that we did for for kind of safety and convenience, but kind of peace of mind more is one of these guys So it's just a basic basic Wi-Fi camera for home security I just hooked it up to the local network. We don't go out to to the streets, but we can see it remotely We don't need that people tapping in but anyway It's just a local Wi-Fi camera so we can keep an eye on the kids while they're sleeping just to make sure they're They're good and they're not up and playing around by the windows or maybe when they're sick just keep an eye on them so we can kind of make sure they haven't made a mess and They're coughing and not The other thing that they do Okay, girl, so time for stories. Do you want to go pick your book? Okay, go I Kind of say goodnight to the twins we always play music for them So they like to listen to music and then this always helps our kids sleep down machine So all of our kids listen to ocean waves. It's perfect I love you. Oh you showing the book Okay, here's pinky in the brown Time to get the bigger kids ready for bed Time to shower this one. I Don't know where she's she's like a shark circling the water. So what is she about to do? anyway, it's time to give her a shower and Yeah, holden's old enough he showers himself, oh she's got longer hair and she's younger it's tougher But anyway, we're not having much luck getting the twins to bed. They keep opening their door This is not uncommon. What's going on? Why are you guys out of bed? That she's two days old Get into bed Hey, what's the time for? Because someone's going into first grade so we need to work on our reading Don't pick one and deep in the grickle grass. Some people say if you look deep enough You can still see today for the Lorax one stood just as long as it could before somebody lifted the Lorax away I'm gonna help you Have a good sleep. Okay last All right, have you brushed your teeth? No, can you go to brush your teeth, please? What is this doing in your bed? Okay, don't stay up too late, okay. Hey, good night. Love you And that's our bedtime routine. It's after nine o'clock I'm pretty tired, but it was fairly successful. Twins are asleep, too. If you'd like to see more videos like this Definitely subscribe to baby centers YouTube channel and Make sure you like it and also hit the notification bell, too And if you want to see more videos with our family head to our YouTube channel nesting story and subscribe there There's a link below for that. I hope all of you have a great evening and great success putting your kids to bed Please leave any tips or anything that works for your family below in the comments. I'll see everyone soon. 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