I have finally tweaked Sophie’s schedule into something comfy for the both of us. Plus i’ve incorporated some toddler "homeschooling" schedule too. Here’s how it goes:

7.30am

Rise & Shine, Breakfast together

8am

Brush Teeth

This is something that I started recently with her. We brush our teeth together to get Sophie used to the idea of brushing her teeth. She’s so familiar with this routine that she’ll say brush teeth once she’s done with her breakfast. She doesn’t really brush her teeth. She just gets a kick out of standing on a stool and playing with her tooth brush. She’ll ask for tooth paste but she doesn’t like it. Strange. Once I’m done, I’ll take a towel glove and give her teeth a swipe and rub. She hates that btw. But I still do it anyway.

After that she’ll just go around doing her own stuff while I wait for her to poo. She always poos after breakfast. At some point when I’m brave enough, i’m going to toilet train her. Lazy me. Now once she poos, I’ll change her diaper and her pjs.

8.30am

Chinese and English Reading

I’m trying to incorporate this into her schedule for 10-15mins a day. So far we’ve been doing her Chinese Flash Cards. Knowing me, if I don’t schedule it in, we’ll just not do it and more and more I feel that giving her that 5-10 mins of Chinese will help. But she’s not always cooperative so if she’s not up to it, we’ll just read other books.

9am

Playground/Outing/Marketing

This varies from day to day.

10.30/11am

Snack + 120ml Milk

Instead of giving her lunch before her nap, I now give her lunch after her nap. Works out much better for us because she used to get cranky by lunch and ate very little.

11.30/12pm

Nap

She now naps for 1 – 2hrs. This gives me time to have a shower/meetings/do some work/cook etc.

1.30pm

Lunch

This way, we can all have lunch together and she’s more awake to eat properly.

2pm

Bathe

I use the shower to bath her now coz she doesn’t want to even sit in the tub to play with water anymore. But she’ll cling onto my legs like a little koala bear coz she hates shampooing and washing hair.

2.30pm

Play/Outing

3 hrs is a long long time to be with a toddler. For a period of time, she just wants to hang out with me but nowadays she’ll play on her own and even pretend to read. Very cute. Time seem to past quite fast. Sometimes we have visitors so that keeps her occupied and she loves visitors.

5.30pm

Dinner and Bathe

Before dinner, she gets about 10-15 mins of TV time while I get dinner ready. After dinner and a quick bathe, we norm turn down the lights and start to get her ready for bed. Daddy normally comes home at about 6 and he’ll play and read to her. It’s their special time together while I wash the dishes, get our dinner ready and tidy up the house.

7pm

Milk, Clean Teeth, Reading, Prayer and Off to Bed

Now with only 1 nap, she’s always very ready to sleep by 7ish. She’s been really good at bedtime. We do a lot of reading at bedtime, going through a few books at a time on her request. She knows most of her books by name so if she’s trying to delay bedtime, she’ll just keep calling out the book names. Super funny. We always end with reading the bible and then prayer. If she’s in a hurry to sleep, she’ll quickly say Amen before we finish praying. She’s funny like that.

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