Now that we've had Rylee for about a month now (and she's only waking once in the night!), we've gotten into a new routine. It's definitely different with three than two! Ashtyn's also been asking to go to school, so we started relaxed homeschooling at the beginning of September. Here's roughly what our days look like nowadays.
We start our days between 7:30 and 8:00 am. I try to get Ashtyn and Parker's breakfast set up while they watch Alphabet videos or signing time for a bit so I can feed Rylee at 8:00. While Rylee's awake, I'll get ready for the day, get her ready for the day, make our bed, and pick up Ben and my room a bit (that's where Rylee sleeps, so I can't do any of this while she's asleep).
Rylee is awake for about 40 minutes. I put her down and then quickly eat and clean up breakfast, finish getting ready for the day, and get the girls ready for the day. I usually try to have this all done by about 9:30. Then we start our homeschool day by reading picture books (usually from the library) together.
Rylee wakes up sometime between 10:00 and 10:30. I feed her, we read and sing with her, do some tummy time, then put her back down.
Between her naps, the older girls and I do our other homeschool stuff. We spend about five minutes on letters; Parker is learning her letters (very slowly) and Ashtyn is learning letter sounds in preparation for reading. We have a snack around 10:00 or 10:30 (depending on when Rylee is awake) and while they eat their snack, I read to them (right now, we're reading Little House in the Big Woods). We also have journal time, when I transcribe a little in their journals for them and then they draw a picture of it while I write in mine. Most days, we also trace letters in a dry erase book we have.
We usually finish all of this around 11:00, which is when the girls play outside until lunch around noon.
On Fridays, I don't worry about doing all our school stuff. We still read aloud, but instead of focusing on letters and everything, we do a special activity (usually one I've found off of Pinterest) and clean the house. On Tuesdays, we go to the library for story time instead of playing outside.
After lunch, Parker goes down for a nap and Ashtyn has a quiet time drawing and watching a show. Rylee sleeps for at least part of this, which is when I work on my own stuff and take a break. After quiet time, we get dinner ready, eat, and then have family time the rest of the evening (sometimes at home, sometimes with Ben's family).
We start getting the girls all ready for bed around 8:00 pm. I help get them ready and then nurse Rylee to sleep while Ben puts the two older ones down. They're all in bed around 8:30. Then Rylee sleeps until between 4:00 and 7:00 am and then goes back down until 8:00 am.
Saturdays are a lot more relaxed. Saturday mornings, we don't worry about school at all and usually Ben doesn't work. We just hang out and relax usually. I'll finish any cleaning and we'll do things to get ready for Sunday. Saturday afternoon, Ben and I spend time together during their naps and then after naps, we drop the girls all off at his parents house and do a little date. We get home at night in time for baths (we can't do it before because they almost always get covered in dirt at Ben's parents' house).
Sunday mornings are a whirlwind getting everyone ready for church and church is quite exhausting with three, but we make it work. After lunch and naps, we have a video call date with my parents and then head over to Ben's parents' house for dinner. Once church is done, Sundays really are our most restful day and church (even with kids) is very spiritually renewing.
I feel like we've quickly found a new rhythm with Rylee. It's really helped that she's such a content baby and a great night sleeper (naps leave something to be desired, but we can't have the perfect baby ;)). It also helped that we had a good base schedule to fit Rylee's routine around. It's been wonderful to have her in our family and a lot of fun to start our homeschooling (the girls both love it, Ashtyn asks for it everyday and gets after me if I ever try to skip anything).
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