Jacob Goes To School
After finding out that Amy has a new job, the wheels started rolling trying to find suitable daycare for Jacob. There are many, many locations relatively close for daycare, but wouldn't you know it, many, well all that we called were full. We found this to be a little interesting considering the way the economy is. Our first choice was booked until at least March, so we had to broaden the horizons.
After calling around, we made an appointment with a facility that is kind of on the way to Amy's new job and kinda on the way home for me. We ventured out in the snow storm that we had to check this place out. After all, we didn't really have a choice if we were to both check it out and also to make a quick decision. We ended up spending well over an hour checking out all of the rooms and also letting Jacob play in the room that he would be in, if we were to decide on this "school". There are different rooms for different ages as they accommodate a large range of ages. They offer care for children from 4 weeks to 12 years of age and also has a pre-school integrated into it. The highlights for Jacob during the tour were pushing around the horses (toy, of course), sitting at the piano (we couldn't believe the huge smile he had since he has the opportunity to play hear whenever he wants) and I think it's called a crazy car. He was not happy when daddy had to take him out... We took some information with us as we needed to decide whether it was worth it or not to continue looking. This place was definitely a nice place with a lot to offer, but it was a little more expensive than a few others. However, it also includes diapers, wipes, hot lunch and three snacks a day.
So, we ventured back out into the 10 inches of snow or so by this point and ran some errands. On the way home, as we were passing back by the facility, we decided to make it official and enroll Jacob. A quick run home to get the checkbook (and let Jacob take a little more of a nap) and we went back and enrolled Jacob. Jacob will start "school" on January 5th!!! We are calling it school to 1) make it easier on Amy to think that he is going to school and not just having some one else take care of him and 2) it really is much more like a school than it is a daycare.
Jacob and I, at least, and possibly mommy too will be venturing back during the holidays so that Jacob can meet his teachers again along with his fellow classmates. He may have met most, if not all of them already, but they didn't really get much of a chance to play. With the weather and the holidays, the facility isn't as full as it normally is as parents are going on vacations, etc.
After calling around, we made an appointment with a facility that is kind of on the way to Amy's new job and kinda on the way home for me. We ventured out in the snow storm that we had to check this place out. After all, we didn't really have a choice if we were to both check it out and also to make a quick decision. We ended up spending well over an hour checking out all of the rooms and also letting Jacob play in the room that he would be in, if we were to decide on this "school". There are different rooms for different ages as they accommodate a large range of ages. They offer care for children from 4 weeks to 12 years of age and also has a pre-school integrated into it. The highlights for Jacob during the tour were pushing around the horses (toy, of course), sitting at the piano (we couldn't believe the huge smile he had since he has the opportunity to play hear whenever he wants) and I think it's called a crazy car. He was not happy when daddy had to take him out... We took some information with us as we needed to decide whether it was worth it or not to continue looking. This place was definitely a nice place with a lot to offer, but it was a little more expensive than a few others. However, it also includes diapers, wipes, hot lunch and three snacks a day.
So, we ventured back out into the 10 inches of snow or so by this point and ran some errands. On the way home, as we were passing back by the facility, we decided to make it official and enroll Jacob. A quick run home to get the checkbook (and let Jacob take a little more of a nap) and we went back and enrolled Jacob. Jacob will start "school" on January 5th!!! We are calling it school to 1) make it easier on Amy to think that he is going to school and not just having some one else take care of him and 2) it really is much more like a school than it is a daycare.
Jacob and I, at least, and possibly mommy too will be venturing back during the holidays so that Jacob can meet his teachers again along with his fellow classmates. He may have met most, if not all of them already, but they didn't really get much of a chance to play. With the weather and the holidays, the facility isn't as full as it normally is as parents are going on vacations, etc.
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