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It is okay to fill it out early, but I would wait 2 to 7 days after you believe the window has opened to file the n400. There is no advantage in submitting the same day as your window opens but it is easy for USCIS or yourself to miss calculate.   Think time zone issue if you file online.
Also if you moved recently you need to reside at your home for 90 days before you file for n400.

In our case we had a combo i751/n400 interview. Our interview invitation was only for the N400, nothing about the i751. I brought my spouse and had updated evidence for the 2 year old i751 case to the interview. 
 
Be prepared to do the i751 interview and let the officer know that you are prepared to do both interviews with your spouse if you are called in alone.
In our case in Sacramento my spouse was allowed to accompany me into the field office and we were called in to interview together.
 
I think a combo interview is the most common outcome with a i751/n400 pending together but it is slight possibility the i751 could be approved without an interview or USCIS may not have the i751 file at the time of the interview and won't be able to adjudicate it at the interview.

I would see if family or friends back in Pakistan can obtain a certified copy of the birth record needed. The US state department visa reciprocity table for acceptable birth documents for Pakistan show...
 
Issuing Authority: Birth certificates issued by local Union Councils, Municipal Corporations, the Office of the Cantonment Board, or the CDA are acceptable, as are Family Registration Certificates (FRC) issued by NADRA.  In larger cities, such as Rawalpindi, Lahore, Karachi etc., Municipal Corporation-issued birth certificates prior to 2001 are also acceptable.
Procedure for Obtaining: Applicants must visit their local Union Council, fill out a form, and provide identification. The process for late registration is more complex, requiring two affidavits to be submitted to the concerning authority (the municipal corporation or small claims court, depending on the length of time after birth).  The concerning authority then issues a letter to the Union Council authorizing the late entry. Once this process has been completed, the applicants may visit the Union Council to register.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Visa-Reciprocity-and-Civil-Documents-by-Country/Pakistan.html

The day you enter the USA on the CR-1 visa is the start date of your legal permanent residency. Your conditional green card expires 2 years after the start of your LPR. So as @Crazy Cat indicated Dec 19th 2022 will be the expiration date of the condiditonal green card.  You can file anytime between now and Dec 19th as the joint i751 filing window is currently open.
If your new conditional green card does not show up in time, I recommend you include a copy of your i-90 receipt notice for your replacement green card, a copy of the stamp with the entry date in your passport of when you enter on the CR-1, and include an explanation in your i751 cover letter explaining your green card was lost in the mail and that your LPR started on December 19th 2020 and your CGC will expire on December 19th, 2022.You need to file your joint i751 within 90 days of December 19th 2022 with your i751 application.
 
You can go to the USCIS webpage link below to download the latest i751 to use, determine the fee needed, find the correct address to mail the i751 form to based on your home address, and complete instructions on how to fill out the i751application. Be sure to collect the bona fide marriage evidence needed to be included with the i751 application.
https://www.uscis.gov/i-751

Don’t be scared. It is not tough to pass a naturalization interview, study your civics questions and be prepared to answer IO questions in english.
 
You will be tested on the civics question and you will need to get 6 questions  correct to pass. You will need to read and write a simple sentence. 
Interviewing officer will cover all the questions on the n400 application so review the questions on the n400 form and be prepared to answer the same questions in person to the officer.
 
The IO will ask about time spent out of the US, be prepared to update the IO with any new travel made after the n400 application.
 
If you have any legal issues, be prepared to address them with any police reports and court dispositions.  If you had any traffic citation in the past 5 years be be prepared to show you took care of them
 
Bring your IRS tax transcripts for any years you have not already provided in the last 5 years. (you need to show you file taxes and your taxes have been paid)
 
IO may ask about anything in your immgration history with the US. You may want to bring old visas in passports, any approval notices for immgration benefits obtained in the past. This old immgration stuff is not likely to be needed but may be handy to have with you at the  interview. You will want to know your immgration history and respond to any question IO may have.
 
Your marriage status is a concern as your certificate of naturalization indicates whether or not you're married. So bring the original copy of your divorce decree and marriage certificates.

All i751 applications that are destined for an i751 interview go to the National Benefits Center and are held in a cue until the local USCIS field office is ready to schedule an ROC interview. 
 
All interviews for ROC and citizenship are held at the local field USCIS office assigned to your local address on the i751/n400 applications or latest address updated with AR-11.
 
It is possible for NBC to approve an i751 without an interview but this seldom happens, the most likely thing to happen is a combo interview i751/n400 at your local USCIS field office. There is also a small chance of separate interviews for i751 and n400. The removal of conditions must be approved first before naturalization can be approved.  

Not filing income taxes or not paying taxes
Gambling offense 
Drug offense
Having warrants out for you for not taking care of legal issues 

No, they will become citizens automatically by law if they are green card holders, and they meet all the conditions, that one of their parents becomes a US citizen, and they are under 18 years old and in the USA living with and in the care and custody of the US citizen parent.
 
To have proof that they are US citizens you would need to get a certificate of citizenship; to get one you would need to file an n600 application for each child. Unfortenchenly it is a costly application to file $1170, you may wish to apply for the fee waiver for the n600.
 
 Many parents choose to get a US passport for their minor children which is much cheaper $100 or $115 than the n600 $1170. A passport will work to allow travel and provides some proof of US citizenship but there are some government benefits the child may apply for in the future that require a certificate of naturalization. 
 
You can wait to file n600 as they will be US citizens automatically you just lack proof of cizenship. If you don’t file their n600 right away I would advise to preserve the evidence that they became a citizen so they can file later in life even if they have US passport. Save their green card info, evidence they live with a US citizen parent at the time the parent became a citizen (under 18), the USA citizen parent's naturalization certificate, birth records and so on. If you file the n600 years later it can be difficult to have the evidence for the n600 application years and years later.

The day you enter the USA on the CR-1 visa is the start date of your legal permanent residency. Your conditional green card expires 2 years after the start of your LPR. So as @Crazy Cat indicated Dec 19th 2022 will be the expiration date of the condiditonal green card.  You can file anytime between now and Dec 19th as the joint i751 filing window is currently open.
If your new conditional green card does not show up in time, I recommend you include a copy of your i-90 receipt notice for your replacement green card, a copy of the stamp with the entry date in your passport of when you enter on the CR-1, and include an explanation in your i751 cover letter explaining your green card was lost in the mail and that your LPR started on December 19th 2020 and your CGC will expire on December 19th, 2022.You need to file your joint i751 within 90 days of December 19th 2022 with your i751 application.
 
You can go to the USCIS webpage link below to download the latest i751 to use, determine the fee needed, find the correct address to mail the i751 form to based on your home address, and complete instructions on how to fill out the i751application. Be sure to collect the bona fide marriage evidence needed to be included with the i751 application.
https://www.uscis.gov/i-751

All i751 applications that are destined for an i751 interview go to the National Benefits Center and are held in a cue until the local USCIS field office is ready to schedule an ROC interview. 
 
All interviews for ROC and citizenship are held at the local field USCIS office assigned to your local address on the i751/n400 applications or latest address updated with AR-11.
 
It is possible for NBC to approve an i751 without an interview but this seldom happens, the most likely thing to happen is a combo interview i751/n400 at your local USCIS field office. There is also a small chance of separate interviews for i751 and n400. The removal of conditions must be approved first before naturalization can be approved.  

All i751 applications that are destined for an i751 interview go to the National Benefits Center and are held in a cue until the local USCIS field office is ready to schedule an ROC interview. 
 
All interviews for ROC and citizenship are held at the local field USCIS office assigned to your local address on the i751/n400 applications or latest address updated with AR-11.
 
It is possible for NBC to approve an i751 without an interview but this seldom happens, the most likely thing to happen is a combo interview i751/n400 at your local USCIS field office. There is also a small chance of separate interviews for i751 and n400. The removal of conditions must be approved first before naturalization can be approved.  

If the i90 is still pending and you don’t your conditional green card in time, I would include a copy of your i90 receipt notice, your i485 approval notice or the CR1 visa stamp date in passport (date of entry to USA), photocopy of front and back of the defective 10 year green card, copy of your marriage certificate, and an explanation in the cover letter explaining you received the 10 year green card in error indicating you marriage date and LPR start date and you are awaiting your conditional green card to be issued included with your i751 application.

You can file a n400 under the 3 year rule if you would like if you qualified. Any green card holder who obtained their green card due to abuse can use the 3 year rule without their spouse. See the web link https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/fact-sheets/DO_FactSheet_NatzForVAWALawfulPermResidents_V3_508.pdf.
 
Looks to me you can file the n400 under the 5 year rule now as you have had your green card 6 years already since March of 2016.
 
You are eligible to file the n400 now under either the 3 year or 5 year rule. If you have not been out of the US much in the last 5 years, and if there are no 'good character' issues within the last 5 years then you are good to file under the 5 year rule.  I think the 5 year rule is easier to file, but it goes back 5 years; the 3 years rule goes back 3 years of review of time out of the USA of more than 50% of the time, good character issues, and being more than 180 days on one trip out of the US. In your case you do not need to prove you are married and living with your spouse in either case (5 or 3 year rule), you will need to show you got your i360 abuse case approved (3 year rule). And no you do not bring your spouse to the interview.
 
Keep in mind the need to live at your address for 90 day before you file the n400. 

If the i90 is still pending and you don’t your conditional green card in time, I would include a copy of your i90 receipt notice, your i485 approval notice or the CR1 visa stamp date in passport (date of entry to USA), photocopy of front and back of the defective 10 year green card, copy of your marriage certificate, and an explanation in the cover letter explaining you received the 10 year green card in error indicating you marriage date and LPR start date and you are awaiting your conditional green card to be issued included with your i751 application.

If the i90 is still pending and you don’t your conditional green card in time, I would include a copy of your i90 receipt notice, your i485 approval notice or the CR1 visa stamp date in passport (date of entry to USA), photocopy of front and back of the defective 10 year green card, copy of your marriage certificate, and an explanation in the cover letter explaining you received the 10 year green card in error indicating you marriage date and LPR start date and you are awaiting your conditional green card to be issued included with your i751 application.

If the i90 is still pending and you don’t your conditional green card in time, I would include a copy of your i90 receipt notice, your i485 approval notice or the CR1 visa stamp date in passport (date of entry to USA), photocopy of front and back of the defective 10 year green card, copy of your marriage certificate, and an explanation in the cover letter explaining you received the 10 year green card in error indicating you marriage date and LPR start date and you are awaiting your conditional green card to be issued included with your i751 application.

No incorrect you only file an i751 form to remove conditions from your green card, once you remove the conditions a 10 year green card will be issued.
 
Go to https://www.uscis.gov/i-751 to find and download the correct i751 form to use, calculate what the fees are to USCIS, to find the address to mail the i751 to based on your address. USCIS has complete instructions for the i751 form at that site. 
 
The i751 joint application must be filed within the 90 day period before the expiration date on the conditional green card.
 
You must include evidence of a bona fide marriage between you and your spouse since your marriage with the i751 form.
Proof you are and have lived together as a couple, like joint lease or leases, joint mortgage for each address you have had during marriage, include mail addressed for each of you at home address, drivers licenses for each of you with same home address…
 
Proof you share finances; joint tax transcripts during marriage, joint bank account statements showing joint income and joint expenses being paid month to month over the marriage, joint insurance (health, car, life).
 
Proof you do things as a couple, and have plans for things together; having children (birth records of kid together), proof of travel together as a couple, photos together on vacation and photos with family, large purchases together like a home, car, retirement accounts beneficiaries, and insurance beneficiaries. 
An i751 application can have 100s of pages of evidence required to show proof of your  bona fide marriage.

No incorrect you only file an i751 form to remove conditions from your green card, once you remove the conditions a 10 year green card will be issued.
 
Go to https://www.uscis.gov/i-751 to find and download the correct i751 form to use, calculate what the fees are to USCIS, to find the address to mail the i751 to based on your address. USCIS has complete instructions for the i751 form at that site. 
 
The i751 joint application must be filed within the 90 day period before the expiration date on the conditional green card.
 
You must include evidence of a bona fide marriage between you and your spouse since your marriage with the i751 form.
Proof you are and have lived together as a couple, like joint lease or leases, joint mortgage for each address you have had during marriage, include mail addressed for each of you at home address, drivers licenses for each of you with same home address…
 
Proof you share finances; joint tax transcripts during marriage, joint bank account statements showing joint income and joint expenses being paid month to month over the marriage, joint insurance (health, car, life).
 
Proof you do things as a couple, and have plans for things together; having children (birth records of kid together), proof of travel together as a couple, photos together on vacation and photos with family, large purchases together like a home, car, retirement accounts beneficiaries, and insurance beneficiaries. 
An i751 application can have 100s of pages of evidence required to show proof of your  bona fide marriage.

I know there is a large cost to file an n600 for your child. I would recommend you do so for your child. A certificate of citizenship is proof positive of US citizenship for your child going forward in their life and is required for certain applications with the US government like security application or filing for an immgration benefit for someone in the future. A US passport may not always be adequate to prove US citizenship in the future. Your child could apply for the n600 themselves in the future if needed but it may be difficult to put together the proof needed to show they are US citizens years and years later. 
If you don’t file for the n600 for your minor children at least preserve the proof they will need to file an n600 on their own (proof your citizenship information, proof that they reside with you at the right time and their green card info).

Not sure of your timeline. It looks like you filed your i751 sometime early in 2021 with your extension letter expiring 2 years after your conditional green card expired.
If so, you could have filed an n400 in March of this year 3 years after your conditional green card was issued if you are still married to and reside with your US citizen spouse for all 3 years.
You can check out our i751/n400 timeline in the signature section below. Our i751 was approved about 25 months after filing and n400 approved around 13 months after it was filed after a combo interview.

When a child is born outside the United States to a biological or adoptive parent or parents that are U.S. citizens, and the child is under 18 years of age, and resides in the United States in the legal and physical custody of the U.S. citizen parent. When the minor above meets all the these requirements then the minor would be a US citizen automatically by law.
 
I recommend filing n600 for children if they meet the age, green card status (LPR), and reside in the USA with a US citizen parent.

If you are in removal proceedings it may not be advisable to leave the USA even with an i551 stamp, you may self-deport. If you don’t have a final order to be removed from the USA from the judge you still have an LPR should still be able to enter the USA but I would get a good immgration lawyer to confirm your eligibility.
You can file for n400 but it can not be approved without an approved ROC (i751), the NTA case will need to be resolved before the judge as well.

I know there is a large cost to file an n600 for your child. I would recommend you do so for your child. A certificate of citizenship is proof positive of US citizenship for your child going forward in their life and is required for certain applications with the US government like security application or filing for an immgration benefit for someone in the future. A US passport may not always be adequate to prove US citizenship in the future. Your child could apply for the n600 themselves in the future if needed but it may be difficult to put together the proof needed to show they are US citizens years and years later. 
If you don’t file for the n600 for your minor children at least preserve the proof they will need to file an n600 on their own (proof your citizenship information, proof that they reside with you at the right time and their green card info).

Similar things happened during our i751 case. We got 3 fingerprints notices, our i751 was approved after a combo interview 24 months or so after filing at naturalization interview. See our timeline below in the signature section below.