My son is almost 16 months. We've been on the waiting list for a great daycare forever. It's very small and it's hard to get in. They don't have a spot in the 1 year old room because of a "backup" in the 2 year old room - you can't move to the 3 year old room until you are potty trained. Apparently there are a bunch of newly turned 3 year old who can't move up to the 3 year old room because of the potty training. Which means that the 1 year old room is full of newly turned 2 year olds who can't move up. Which means no spot for my kid in the 1 year old room (if that makes sense).

Anyway, first they told us they thought he could start in August (around his 1 year old birthday). Then they pushed it to November. Now the director is saying "maybe early February, the parents say they are going to work on potty training over Christmas break."

My husband and I are both frustrated and sort of feel like they are just kicking us down the road, but I guess there's nothing we can do about it.

We toured another daycare in town that has an immediate opening starting after New Years. Our childcare situation now is not good, we have 2 part time sitters who are not always available and then he and I take turns "working from home" (i.e., not really working that much then staying up late at night to work). It's not an ideal situation.

I don't *love* daycare #2 (with the immediate opening). It's just okay. If I knew for sure he could get into daycare #1, our first choice, at the beginning of February, I would keep him home with the babysitters and bad work situation until then and just suck it up.

But based on daycare #1's past behavior, I'm afraid February is going to roll around and they're going to tell us sorry, it's going to be another month or two, and then we are stuck.

I am trying to decide if I should just enroll him in daycare #2, and depending on how it goes, either leave him there, or pull him out and put him in daycare #1 if/when a spot becomes available.

WWYD? I really prefer daycare #1 to daycare #2... although I guess you never really know until your kid starts going there.