We have had D in this daycare since we moved back to the area 2 years ago, and with the exception of a few minor issues, we have been absolutely thrilled with it. D has thrived and he's made tons of friends and loves his teachers. A is also now enrolled, and while I haven't been totally in love with the infant room, I'm waiting it out because the older rooms have been SO awesome for D.

The problem is that in 2 years when D is ready to enter Kindergarten (Fall 2018), we won't be able to keep sending him there. They do before and after school care, but they don't provide transprtation to the elementary school to which our address is districted. When we first enrolled him, I wasn't worried about it because I figured we'd just request an intra-district transfer to the school that daycare busses to, but the SD recently changed their policy and they now explicitly state "no transfers for daycare purposes will be granted starting 2016-2017 school year and beyond." So that's not an option anymore. There are a few daycares that bus to our elementary school, and the local Y busses to all the schools in the district. We COULD keep him at his current daycare, because they do offer full-day Kindergarten there, but Hubs is digging his heels in and saying no because he doesn't want to continue having to pay full-time tuition rates.

I realize this is 2 years away, but we're thinking about it now because a) I'm worried there may be a lot of families in our position and there may be waiting lists and b) D will need time to get used to that change before also starting Kindergarten. If we change daycares for him, we will likely change A, as well, because I can't imagine doing 2 daycare drop-off/pickups every day. If we enroll him in the Y program, we have to wait until May before he starts school, and then if they fill up we're left scrambling and having to change daycares at the last minute. We plan to take a day off sometime soon and tour these other daycares and get a feel for their programs, tuition rates, and waiting lists.

What would you do? Change daycares for both kids? When would you do it? We're absolutely not moving them this school year - D's been with his pre-school teacher since April and he loves her and it would kill me to take him from her. So the choices are move them next summer, next fall (when he starts pre-K), or Jan/Feb 2018 when A would move up to the older toddler room (but it would be in the middle of D's pre-K school year). Or would you leave A in this daycare and take the chance to get D into the Y program in May 2018?