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27 months, in bed by 8-8:10pm. Asleep anywhere from 8:15-8:30pm. I feel like it's kinda on the late side but it works for us and I fear he would wake up earlier if I put him to bed earlier.

15mos - 8:30pm, but that flexes a bit based on how long his nap was and what time he woke up. On (very rare) occasions as early as 7:50. More often (too often) he stalls his nap until late in the afternoon and then has to get woken from it so we can get him to bed before 10pm.

12 monts and 7 -7:30 pm

20 months, 8pm. She's usually in bed by like 7:50 and falls asleep anywhere between 8:20-8:30.

3.5 and bedtime is between 7 and 7:30. She's usually asleep shortly after getting in bed. She's up between 6 and 6:30.

DS is 4 and sleeps 8:30-6:30 most days, with a nap from 1:30-3pm ish. On days he doesn't nap, he still stays up until 8/8:30pm but will wake later in the morning the next day.

DD is 22 mos and sleeps 8:30-6/6:30am and naps from 1-3/3:30pm every day.

Lo is 17 mo. Dinner between 5:30-6 followed by a bit of playtime, pajamas, books, sings around 6:45 and when asleep varies but between 7 and 7:30. Wakes up between 6:00-6:30.

DS1 is 3.5. He goes to bed around 8, and typically falls asleep quickly. He wakes up anywhere between 7am and 9am, depending on the day.

DS2 is 1. His bedtime routine starts at 7, he's usually asleep by 7:30-7:45. He gets up around 8am.

Almost 3 and her bedtime is between 7:30 and 8:00. We don't do a bath every night. I try to prep some dinner in the morning (this morning I cooked the rice so all I need to do is saute the veggies) and I don't clean up the kitchen until after she's in bed. She doesn't have to go to sleep right at 8:00, but she does have to stay in her room and on her bed. That's the only rule. If she needs to potty, she calls one of us and we take her.

LO is 3, bedtime is around 7:30/7:45. She wakes up at 7 on her own. We don't do bath every night. So dinner is around 6, I try to get the bedtime process started by around 7, depending how long she napped. She's in a big stalling phase so I try to build a little extra time in for that. I try to be leaving her room by 7:30 or 7:45. On a good night she takes maybe 5-15 minutes to fall asleep. I go straight to nursing the baby and getting her into bed after that.

If they need baths I make sure to do dinner on the early side. I usually clean up after they are in bed and sometimes eat dinner myself after, depending on what we are having and when DH gets home.

@irene: We do a bath every night. Our kids are so dirty bny the end of the day! Having a later bedtime makes it easier to fit it in though.

@irene: We also do a bath every night, especially in the summer. I sometimes do the bath before dinner. My son doesn't need the steps to be in the exact same order every night, so on especially dirty days, like when he's gone to the beach in the afternoon, he gets his bath as soon as he comes in the door.

25m old. 530 dinner, 6:30 bath, 7pm milk, 730 bedtime.

14 months. Dinner is 7-7:30, depending on when we get home from daycare. Bedtime (aka lights off) is 8:30-9, depends, and wake up is 6:45 a.m.

@irene: Oh man, there's no way I'd sit around longer than 30 minutes for dinner! Ain't nobody got time for that!! And we do bath every other night. So our evening routine looks like this on bath days:

5:15 - home from daycare
5:45 - dinner on the table (sometimes sooner)
6:15 - done with dinner, start water for bath
6:45 - done with bath, one episode of something
7:15 - brush teeth, do inhaler, change into PJs
7:30 - stories with Logan (20m), put him to bed
7:45 - stories with Xander, potty one last time, in bed by 8:00

ETA - If he's still hungry after bath, he can finish his dinner or have a snack while watching a show.

I don't follow a rigid schedule but need to try harder to get our LO (15mos) to bed earlier. DH only gets to see her at dinner/bed time, so I usually get her fed between 5-6 while I'm preparing things for our dinner. DH often doesn't get home until 7:30, though, so he & I eat as soon as he gets home. She will often eat some more of whatever we are having, which is a nice compromise as "dinner together", though she's really just snacking by then. We try & do some clean up while she plays, unless she's cranky, then we all head up to start her bedtime routine of (bath if necessary/not already done earlier) diaper, jammies, stories/playing, nursing then songs. This can take an hour, but if she is happy, I know DH loves this hour with her. This means she's usually asleep between 9-9:30p. She wakes anywhere between 6:30 & 8am depending on the previous day's naps/bedtime. She's still on a 2 nap routine & they last ~1.5hrs each, usually.

4 yrs old and almost 3 yrs old: bedtime is 7:30pm-6:30am. sometimes they go to bed later (8:30) if people are over at our house, etc.
no naps though for either of them anymore... otherwise for sure they would not be sleepy until around 8:30-9!

Dinner is at 6. Bathtime is at 6:45/7. Stories and songs between 7:15-7:30. Bedtime is at 7:30.

b is 3 and goes to bed at 7pm and wakes up naturally at 615-630.
g is 19 months, goes to bed at 7pm. If it's a daycare day, dh wakes her just after 8. If it's a none daycare day, it depends, but we wake her often at 9am or she sleeps until 930am.
It's very busy for dh to get them to bed by 7 after daycare. They aren't home until 6. Daycare typically feeds them dinner, but often he gives a snack. We bathe in the am to save time in the pm.
We are both huge believers in early bedtimes and stick as close to 7pm as possible.

my 3.5 yo recently stopped napping at preschool, and was basically a mess when we got home. at that time we were putting her to sleep around 8pm and shed sleep til 7 ish. however, we noticed that it still took her awhile to fall asleep and she'd be up til 830pm or later. so we moved her bedtime up to 730ish, and for some reason, that time is the sweet spot where she'll fall asleep within 10 min. so i think she was getting way overtired. it is a hussle to get in bed by then ,but so worth it for all of our sakes!

ds is 2 and sleeps at the same time 730-7, but still naps from 1-3 ish. he seems to fall asleep fast no matter what time we put him down. which is good because he always wakes up the same time no matter what.