It was another nice spring day so Daddy Jarbs and I decided to walk from home to work this morning. We had a 10 am appointment at the US Kids Day Care. We stopped at Chinatown to grab a quick breakfast and then walked to the day care. On our way in, a group of infants in their buggy were on their way out for their morning walk. They were so adorable. One baby was waving goodbye and the other one was chilling in the stroller with her pink sunglasses. So cute!
US Kids is on 14th Street which is about a 5-6 block walk from Mommy & Daddy Jarbs' offices. We met with the Director who gave us a tour. This center is smaller compared to the one we visited last week. As expected, there is about an 18 month wait on their waitlist. Since this is our second day care tour, we now have a better idea on what we should look out for and can compare to the previous one that we have visited. Overall, we still like the DOL day care better. They seem to be more organized compared to US Kids. At DOL, the kids have their own cubbies where you can put all their stuff. At US Kids, they just have storage room and each baby has a plastic storage box for their stuff. It was a little bit disorganized for me.We also did not like that they do not have a secured outdoor playground where kids can run and play. Not that Baby Jarbs will be running anytime soon but a playground is always good to have. Since this center is smaller, it does seem like the kids are given more attention. The kids also walk to the park and museums during the day. Anyway, we did end up signing up on the wait list for this center. The Director said we can call her every week to check if there is an open spot whenever we are ready to put the baby in day care. Well, she will definitely hear from me. I can bug her every week or even every day! It's what I do best! :-). After the day care tour, Daddy Jarbs and I walked back to our offices. We had a total of 2.5 mile walk this morning. I got half of my work out done for the day. We'll walk again from office to home this afternoon and that's another ~1.7 miles :-).
On a related topic, we found another day care that is about 3 miles north of our house. It is a little bit out of the way but the commute should not be that bad. I found out that there is NO wait list in their center. Whew! It is a fairly new, bilingual Spanish day care center. They have webcams which we think is pretty cool. We'll visit their center next week. At least now I feel relieved that we will be able to bring Baby Jarbs here anytime we need day care help. We can always switch him to DOL when a spot opens up.
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