What's your schedule? 18 to 24 months

[Bronnie2018]

Interested to know what other people's schedule is, what you do if you're a stay at home Mum like me x

DD is 18 months
Up between 7.30am and 8am
Breakfast
Playtime
Out between 10am and 11.30am - playgroups, soft play, park walks...
12.30/1 lunch
Nap anywhere between 1pm and 2pm for hour/two
3/4pm playtime - some cartoons
530pm dinner
Play
630/7 bath
Books breastfeed bed around 8pm/8.30pm
Can wake up occasionally 11pm or maybe 2am but not frequently

Love to know what you do...any ideas for games/ indoor fun as the weather is so bad at the moment.

My dd is 24 months. Up at around 7, bed around 8. Naps after lunch for around 1h30. Similar to you, we do play groups, parks, museums, farms. She loves books, sticker books, puzzle games, crafts indoors. Might start baking with her soon 😊

Following with interest, DS is 17 months and our schedule is very similar to yours although he goes to bed a bit earlier.

He loves going outside in the garden so as long as it's not completely horrible outside I get him togged up and head out for a bit most afternoons after his nap.

We sometimes do a bit of finger painting in the afternoons. He loves reading stories too, or sometimes I give him a bowl of warm water to splash about with - with cups and funnels etc - messy though but he loves it

My DS is up at about 7am. Sometimes 6.30am.

We have breakfast and take his brother to school at 9am.

He naps anytime between 11-2 depending what we have on in the morning.

He has a snack after he wakes and we pick his brother up at 3.

They both have an early dinner as my older son is always starving after school. They eat about 4/4.30.

Playtime, baths etc.

Toast about 7 while watching cbeebies bedtime.

Bed at 8pm.

He still wakes during the night.

Arggghhh that was in paragraphs! Mumsnet HQ need to sort that out. Always happen when I'm on my phone!

DD (almost 19 months) goes to nursery 4 days a week but days she's home is generally:

5.30 - awake
We chill in bed with her tablet or CBeebies and a bottle of milk before getting up about 7
7.30 - Breakfast
8-11.30 - play at home
12 - dinner
12.30 - nap, this is anywhere from 45 mins to 2.5 hours
Afternoon - outside for a walk or the park, maybe a soft play
6 - bath time
7 - bed and usually asleep in 15 mins or so

21 months and quite similar.

6:30-7 wake up
7:30 breakfast
8:00 play around house while I try and do some washing Etc
9:00 either go to a group or out for a walk With a snack at around 10
11:00 nap for about two hours
1:00 lunch
Until 4pm play at home or go out shopping or meet friends etc
4pm OH gets home so he plays and I make tea
17:30 tea
6:30 bath
7:00 bedtime. Asleep by half past. Wakes up a few times in the night.

For playing at home - at the moment he is really into puzzles so we've been doing lots of those (just two or three pieces and he needs help!). Read stories and sing songs (sometimes use Alexa for this and dance along). Do some sort of messy/arty activity a few times a week - painting, colouring, drawing on chalkboard, playdoh or rainbow rice, water play etc.
We also try and rotate toys so one day will play with duplo, next day train set, next day dollhouse and animals etc.

To be honest as a stay at home mum I struggle with enough things to fill the time! He's very sociable and loves being with other children so we've signed him up to start nursery two mornings a week soon to give him something different to do and give me a break!

Thank you so much everyone! @Pantheon @Loladisco @Morgan12 @joffreyscoffees @Lazydaisydaydream

Really interesting to read everyone's schedules. Some great ideas for activities as well.

Just wondering if you've had days where your DD or DS doesn't want to nap?!! Feel like I'm going through a phase of that at the moment. The night before my DD slept 7.30pm to 7am but then refused to nap during the day!!! Then the other day ... 2 hour nap and slept ok overnight!

Naps are a mystery to me.. some days she won't want to nap at all, most days it's a quick 45 minutes and then other days she's down nearly 3 hours!