Preschool

We received our co-op preschool notifications on Friday. I had been anxiously awaiting them for the last month or so. What a process. Basically, you tour and register for all of the schools in the co-op system you are interested in. Often (and this year especially) there are way more applicants than spaces available. Because I had Anya enrolled in infant co-op, we got priority registration. This is a bit of a misnomer, since people that had older children enrolled in the school (alumni) in prior years actually get priority/guaranteed enrollment. And then the schools open up x amount of slots for "priority" (my group) via lottery and another amount for open enrollment. My understanding before was that I'd have a guaranteed spot; obviously, not true. Pretty irritating, but what can ya do.

We registered at Wedgwood, Sandhurst, and Victory Heights. We really wanted to go to Wedgwood, since it's 5 blocks from the house, heavy community involvement, and great instructors. Second choice was Victory Heights. It turns out there were so many alumni at Wedgwood that they were only opening 5 spots for priority registration. It looked like about 40 registrants for priority, so our chances of getting in were pretty slim, especially since it was through a lottery. Another wrench was that we were trying to keep Anya and Flynn together for preschool, so even less of a chance of both of us getting one of those 5 spots.

Long story short, we got one of the spots at Wedgwood. And so did Flynn. And so did our PEPS friend Liam! Chris calculated it to be about a .2% chance that we got 3 of the 5 open spots. How cool is that?? I'm hearing from other moms that the Wedgwood waitlist is already insanely long.

So this will be Anya's preschool until she starts Kindergarten, assuming she's happy there. I love the idea of walking to "school", and really love that she'll be with her friends Flynn and Liam, both of whom she's known since she was just a few months old.