Noises and High Five!

Rowen had his first week at the 2nd new day care. As some of you know, we moved Rowen from Ms. Kate's home in mid-August. At the time, we were hoping to get him into UVA program. But, alas they told us it would be 2010 before we would come up on the waitlist. Mind you, I went on the waitlist when I was 4 months pregnant!

Anyway, we put Rowen in a great program called First Steps. He was there for 6 weeks and doing well when we got "the call". Hello, Myla Craig...this is Patrick from UVA Children's World. Your name is next on the waitlist. But it is only 9/2009. Amazing.

After much deliberation and discussions with no less than 8 parents we decided to move Rowen to the UVA program. There were several reasons including: he can stay until age 5 (kindergarten), the room he is in is 8 kids 7 mos - 10 mos (previous room was 8 kids age 6 weeks to 10 months- Rowen being the oldest), it was WAY more convenient for us, it is a nationally certified children education program, the room has two HUGE picture windows, we really liked the new director Patrick....all this AND it cost less. I calculated (just for fun- no news to report) if we have two children at the program compared to First Steps the savings would be 500 dollars a month!

So, after 5 days of being there- Rowen is now giving "high fives", doing this Indian noise, saying Uh-Oh and waving goodbye. May just be coincidence- but we are impressed. :)

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