Child Care?!

Today we pre-registered our un-born son for child care.  Yep.  I am almost 25 weeks pregnant and we already have signed him up to start sometime in mid-September.  Why so soon, you ask?  Well, there are only two places where we live that will take infants, and one of them is only open until 2pm.  We both need to be working full time, so that one is not really an option.  That leaves one place in Coos Bay that would work for us.  So, very warily, we went over there to check it out yesterday.  The place was GREAT!  Everything was clean and kept up nicely.  They have different classrooms for infants up to the age of one, then one for ages 1-3, then the kids go on to pre-school, and etc, all the way up to sixth grade!!  Everything is well scheduled, they help potty-train your child, snacks are provided, and they even follow your own feeding schedule for your baby!!  This place was a dream and I was very happy with it.  But they can only take 8 infants at once, and there were already 7 spots filled for this fall when we will be needing child care, so we had to pre-register NOW!  It's spendy, but Jake said he was actually expecting to pay more than that, so I suppose it's a good price?  I don't know.  If they knew they had a monopoly on us they could probably charge more!!  It makes me a little sad to think that we have to sign him up this early, but I'm kinda proud of myself for being a pro-active parent and getting things set up for him in advance so we won't have to stress about it later (or worse, not have child care for him at all!!)