The Goldfish Chronicles

Frustratingly Nathan didn’t get into the preschool that he’s been top of the waiting list for for the last year. Everything was seeming like it would happen until the last minute when the rug and carpet vanished. Very frustrating, and leaving us feeling that the poor blighter’s parents have failed him.

We’d heard about how hard it is to get your kids into daycare/preschool/school of your choice and how, back in KY, parents were signing up before their kids were born. Sadly that was something we could never do as our location is still very fluid - we knew we were leaving KY, and we know we’re not going to be in our rented apartment close to downtown Seattle indefinitely. Given that it costs money to be on waiting lists, the strategy of whoring yourself out does not work well (well, literally it does work well as that’ll pay for the lists, but you know what I mean). With N top of the list for the very nearby preschool, it seemed silly to find other lists to be lower down on. Who’d expect no one to leave eh?

The downside of that is that N enjoys the company of older kids hugely. If he does goto this preschool in a year, it sounds like he might be the oldest kid if all the other kids are the same age and leaving for school. That’ll suck.

So we’re left with a young boy whose life is about to have a younger sibling sucking up his parent’s time, and who isn’t going to get a regular involvement with other kids unless we pull our tired arses into gear and come up with some ideas. Of course he’s old enough to have a measured opinion now, so we also need to talk with him about what he wants to be doing.

Swimming classes are one idea I’ve had; though the easy to get to nearby pool has one on one training, not classes. So a good idea as swimming is a good thing to get early (like riding a bicycle… which Daddy needs to adjust and then make taking N and bike somewhere a regular event), but not a useful idea for the other-kids need.

Soccer class is another. I need to look into the tiny tots classes and see if there are any I can take N to. It looks like Lil Kickers over at Arena Sports has a Saturday schedule. The lad calls it baseball for some reason, but otherwise seems to enjoy kicking a ball around.

Lastly there’s the need for education - he wanted to write his name this morning so I was a bit late getting in to work after an effort to give him some help. Need to make sure we don’t slack on being there for those urges.

Anyone else been in this spot and had ideas work out?

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