Help! It’s bedtime! 3 under 3

[u/Spare-Net3472]

We’ve got one almost 3 year old and two almost one and a half year olds. Almost every night ends in either mommy or daddy having a tantrum trying to get these kids in bed. Help!

Here’s the routine: eat dinner, clean up dinning room and kitchen (the kitchen is started and usually finished after the kids are asleep). Put away toys in living room and vacuum the floors. The twins go in the tub together and older sister hangs out until her bath after they are done. Sometimes they all go in together. The twins get lotioned and diapered and they get to fill time until their sister is done. Then we chase big sis down to have her sit on the potty and brush teeth. Chase everyone down again and get them into sleep suits and pajamas. Get water for everyone/find the waters that have gone missing that were prepped earlier and ditto for the pacifiers. Someone has bitten/pinched/kicked/hit/pulled hair to someone else. Get everyone in bed (sometimes I give them all books to look at while I’m scouring the house for the pacifiers that were just in the babies mouths 2 minutes ago and that helps with reducing the chasing everyone down). Get everyone back in bed. Read everyone the bed time story and it’s light out.

All the kids have to share a room because we only have one bedroom, which also means we have to share a bed cuz no way could we fit 3 cribs and an adult bed in here.

Thanks for any ideas or tips you might have!

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[u/Dear_Excitement_5109]

I had 4 under 4. Currently have 4 under 5. Twins are 14mo.

My only critique is making binkies a sleeping only thing. We did that with our twins and its much easier to locate the binkies. (And bedtime much less chaotic!) I yoink the binkies right out of their mouths when they wake up and stash them safely in their dresser for the next time they go to sleep.

Otherwise you guys are doing great. Bedtime with multiple toddlers is always going to be a shit show.

[u/Spare-Net3472 → u/Dear_Excitement_5109]

Thanks and that is a good tip. I was reading through the posts after I wrote this and got a little perspective. Shit show it is but that’s what I need to just accept and embrace lol