Hamish and Zoë’s kid bedtime routine is as hilarious as you’d expect
Zoë Foster Blake and hubby Hamish Blake are mum and dad to five-year-old son Sonny and two-year-old daughter Rudy.
Slippery little suckers
Zoë’s just launched an absolutely genius range of kids skincare products called Gro To, and in the associated media rounds she’s talked a little more about her own kids daily routine. It’s interesting to hear because the end of the day with tired little possums can be a real uphill battle.
Knowing that everyone – no matter if they’re famous, clever, world-travelling types or less famous, equally clever, suburban types – finds it all a bit of a scramble is heartening.
There are slippery situations, squabbles, suds and stories … and there’s also a whole getting into bed strategy that’s undertaken with hopeful military precision.
Speaking to Now To Love, Zoë said that her kids either shower or bath together of an evening, but it rarely goes off without a hitch.
“As we have a very strong-willed, grabby two-year-old and a busy five-year-old in together, it usually ends in screams and tears, because someone wants the toy the other one has, etc etc,” Zoë explained.
Divide and conquer
Hamish is generally doing the kids’ bath bit, while Zoë does grown-up dinner making and finishes (possibly) kid-dinner tidying.
They then combine their powers and tackle one kid each to get them dressed and ready for bed.
After a “compulsory nudie dance,” Zoë says they “spend the next 10 minutes trying to get a grip on their slippery little bums for PJs/books/bed. It’s a well-oiled machine, literally, not figuratively.”
Then it’s “storytime/songs/goodnight kisses all together. Sonny is into The Treehouse books, and Rudy, being two, needs simple picture books, so we divide and conquer.”
Bad dream buster
It’s not quite clear whether the usual requests for drinks of water, “one more cuddle” play out after that, but what we do know is that there are no monsters under beds in this house. That’s because Zoë cleverly invented an anti-monster spray – it’s called Bad Dream Buster – and Sonny takes charge of it with gusto.
“He mists their room each night, very strategically, to ensure all hidey holes for boogeymen are taken care of, with particular attention to his and his sister’s pillows. He even sprays our room sometimes, which is cool, cos it’s like we have a live-in Ghostbuster.”
That IS cool.
You can read much more about this family’s life at Now To Love.
