- Hi guys, welcome back to my channel.
In today's video I thought it was about time
that I filmed an updated evening routine
because the last one I did Jackson was
just six weeks old and he was barely doing anything,
I think he slept through loads of it.
He is now crawling around, as you can see.
Playing with toys and eating solid food.
So I thought I would show you what we're up to now,
as a mom of three boys and yeah basically
today we've been out all day at the soft play,
hence why, you know, the house isn't too destroyed.
So that's good, but now I'm just gonna
do the boys' dinner, they are starving
even though it's only four o'clock.
But this is about the time when
I will start dinner because they like
to eat between four and five.
But yeah, I'm just gonna show you
what we do on an average day.
It actually happens to be Saturday today,
so I guess it is kind of a weekend routine as well.
I hope you enjoy it, please give it a like
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if your new, and thanks so much for watching.
So the first thing I'm gonna do with dinner
is put on some peas and also some sweet corn.
I just use frozen vegetables, because
it's so quick and easy and I'll just
cook these for like four minutes
and I'll show you why in a sec.
But for the boys dinner today,
I'm making quite a simple dinner.
They just got over a sickness bug,
so I didn't want to go too crazy.
So we're having english muffin pizzas.
So all you have to do is get some
english muffins, cut them in half,
and then toast them.
And then you'll want some tomato puree,
and also some grated mozzarella.
I just buy the pre-grated stuff.
Then I'm gonna put Jackson into his high chair
and put his bib on, and give him
the sweet corn and the peas that I just cooked.
This is great for him to practice
his pincer grip and it also keeps him busy for ages.
I can then make dinner for the older boys
with them helping me.
I use this stand because I feel like
it's safer for when they help me with cooking.
It's pretty unsightly but I'll link it
down below if you're interested in it.
But I'm gonna just call the boys to help me.
I've got little stations set up for them.
So all their gonna do is put the tomato puree
onto the english muffins which have already been toasted
and then also put the mozzarella on top.
You can also add any other toppings
that your kids want to have, like ham or any vegetables,
but they're just gonna have cheese
and then we do the vegetable faces on them afterwards.
And all you literally do is stick them
under the grill, it's like the quickest
and easiest dinner, and I swear my boys
eat better when they cooked themselves.
When I'm cooking as well I like to
clean as much as I can as I go and put everything away.
Then I'm going to heat up Jackson's dinner,
which is cheesy mash because it's leftover
from yesterday, so he'll have that.
And then the boys pizzas are ready,
it literally takes just minutes.
And then we'll add some vegetable faces,
and some sweet corn and pea hair,
and then I'll just get these to the table for the boys.
Then I'll sit with them and have a cup of tea
and encourage them to eat.
Jackson is testing out his brother's pizzas
and he really enjoyed that as well.
They're really good at eating this dinner
because it's one of their favorites.
I'm getting the boys some milk as well.
They have a choice between milk or water,
and Jackson's also going to have some water.
And then this happens a lot as well.
Get back to the table.
One, two, three.
Oh, you just made it.
You know what I really want to see Caleb?
I want to see you eat some vegetables.
A sweet corn?
It's called a sweet.
Eat some pepper, good boy, that's my boy!
That's good!
Oh, where's the new muscles already?
I see them, they're so strong!
Honestly the things we have to say.
But anyway, Jackson makes a big mess
under his highchair, so I will
clean it up with a baby wipe,
and while I do we play pe-po,
because it's one of his favorite
things to do, he loves it so much.
But yeah, I'll just tidy that up
while he's still happy and in the highchair,
and then I will start tidying up from dinner.
And while I tidy up the table,
I put Jackson onto his play mat with some toys,
I'm just literally going to clear everything away,
and give everything a bit of a wipe.
And then put everything into the dishwasher as well.
I'm also gonna give the kitchen
a quick once over, and also the floor
because there are bits of cheese and peas everywhere.
And while everyone's happy, I'm gonna
put some laundry on, because it's never ending
in this house, and I'm always doing stuff like this.
I dropped the whole lint tray, kill me now.
So then I had to Hoover it up,
and carry on with the laundry.
Honestly, I'm doing stuff like that all of the time.
So Jackson is obsessed with laundry,
he finds it fascinating, but once
that's on, we're gonna take it outside.
My boys are happiest outdoor,
so we take it outside most evenings,
especially now that it's summer,
and I'm actually gonna put Jackson
into the baby carrier, because he's
teething at the moment and he's really clingy,
so while I play football with the boys,
he's gonna be happier in the baby carrier
than like on the grass, so yeah
just play football with the kids,
I'm terrible at it but they really don't seem to mind.
Once we've had a play, I'm going to
encourage the boys to help me tidy up.
So we normally put on their favorite song
on the Google Home and run around and tidy up.
(popular music)
- The house really isn't very messy today,
but it's part of our routine,
and it's a great habit to get the boys into.
I don't feel like it should all
be down to the woman of the house.
And then dad gets home at about 5:30
and then I get them up to bath time,
and the way that I do that is to make it
a competition and say it's a race.
(kids chattering)
- So I'll run a bath for the boys
and get all three of them in.
This is one of my favorite times of day,
but it's also the craziest.
They all enjoy bath time so much,
they just mess around with the water and with the toys.
And then I normally get Jackson out first
because he gets really, really tired at about 6:00.
I'll just dry him off, do his little teeth
now that he has seven teeth, we are trying to brush them.
And then we'll get the bigger boys out and dry them.
They are great at getting their own pajamas on now,
and then we normally go into Fraiser's room
because it's the biggest and play toys there.
At about a quarter past six Jackson
is just so, so tired, so I'm going to
put him to bed even though it's a bit early.
I'm going to put him in one of these
little baby sleeping bags.
I love that he can't kick his
covers off because he wears this.
And I will just feed him in the chair,
I'm still breastfeeding, and put him down.
So that is one baby down, and we actually
let the older boys come down for
what we call a movie night.
It's only like an extra show,
but they love it and they feel really special
and sometimes we have popcorn.
But then I'm gonna put Caleb to bed at about 6:45.
I'm gonna brush his teeth with him,
he's really, really getting good
at brushing his own teeth.
And then we're gonna have a few stories.
So we're reading Tom Flethcer's new book.
It's called There's a Monster in My Book,
and it's really, really good, he seems to love it.
And then he's probably gonna say,
please one more story?
And then I'm gonna let him have one more story,
which is Play, so we will read that,
and then I will kind of settle him down,
and that is baby number two down.
We've actually been a bit naughty.
We've got Nando's for dinner, Nando's takeaway.
We're gonna watch The Voice Kids with Fraiser.
He loves this show so we let him stay up.
We're gonna clear away our stuff from dinner,
and then get a few things ready for the next day.
I always like to prepare for the next day.
Even though it's a Saturday night,
I'm just gonna check what's going on in my diary
and there's actually two birthday parties tomorrow.
So then I'm gonna wrap up the gifts
we're gonna need for that, so there's a Power Ranger,
and also a fidget spinner for
one of Fraiser's little friends.
So I'm just gonna do that, it just helps
me to get organized if I can just get
a few things done the night before.
Then I'm gonna say goodnight to Fraser
and actually Matt is going to go
and take Fraser to bed, and I'm gonna
get on with doing some editing and some YouTube work.
I actually love this, so I really don't mind
working at night, I'll just watch TV
while I edit and stuff like that.
The last thing I always do before bed
is put on the dishwasher so it's
all clean in the morning.
Then I'm gonna brush my teeth and
do my skincare routine.
I will link it down below if you'd like
to see this in detail.
And then I'm gonna put on my pineapple pajamas
and say goodnight.
Thanks for watching!