8 AM-Wake up. Talk over the plan (no screen time today) with parents. Come downstairs for breakfast
8:15 Breakfast
8:30 Bring armfuls of stuffed animals and matchbox cars downstairs. Spread them out over the surface of the living room in some way that they are likely to be stepped on. Turn on every light in the house, including the basement.
8:45 School for James and Owen.This is usually Felix's time to either turn loud music on the google speaker or to go upstairs and get into prized possessions of his older brothers.
9:45 James still doing school. Owen and Felix banging on the piano indiscriminately with the volume turned all the way up
10:00 Ten minutes of shouting
10:10 James still doing school. Owen and Felix dump an entire box of crayons out on the living room floor
10:15 Time to start begging for a snack. Dump truck races
10:30 AM School done. Get the wooden swords out.
10:40 Put the wooden swords away, get band-aids out. Time for debate and argument practice.
11:00 More snack begging. (Totally famished.) Slam all open door shut repeatedly.
11:15 Ten more minutes of shouting
11:30 Start spreading around parental possessions. (Coffee cups, phones, laptops, important documents)
11:45 Most intense food begging yet
12:00 Lunch. Complain about what's being served, spread it around/under the table. Eat some only under threat/bribery
12:20 Complain about being hungry
12:30 Outside playtime. Spread outside toys evenly across the yard and partially into neighboring yards
1:30 Naptime. (Percussion ensemble)
3:00 Snacktime. Complain about being starving.
3:15 PM School for James. Shouting match time for Owen and Felix
3:45 Start check-ins on the status of dinner. Change clothes for no apparent reason.
4:00-5:00 James' PM school done. 1 hr of sheer chaos
5:00 Change Felix's outfit, band-aids, unplug the google home speaker; dinner begging
5:15 Dinnertime. Complain about what's being served, spread it around/under the table. Eat some only under threat/bribery.
5:50 Screentime. Battle royale to determine which movie.
7:50 Bedtime stories, bottle, teeth brushing
8:00 1/2 hour of silent reading or optional nighttime percussion ensemble.
8:30 James telling on Owen for not turning out his reading light
8:45 James telling on Owen for keeping him awake by talking
9:00 James telling on Owen for keeping him awake by talking
9:15 Owen telling on James for not listening to him talk
9:30 Multiple trips to the bathroom for extra percussion ensemble practice
10:00 Felix wakes up and won't fall asleep again without sporting equipment in his bed.
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