Little Green Tree House

My family recently moved to Chicago from New York. Our son, Baz, coming up on 2 years old, was taken out of an incredible day care full of love and fun, and we had to desperately seek a new daycare, as both my wife and I work. He ended up going to KinderCare on Clybourn.
I will only say that our son cried every single day he went into that center. We have never seen him so distraught, he is really, a very happy kid. There are more than a handful of reasons that we took him out of that school, but this review is about Little Green Tree House, so I will get into that.
My wife and I were coming back home from the Zoo, and we saw a sign about this school opening soon. We were very intrigued, as we were really hoping to find a great place for Baz to go to school. I called up and spoke to Michelle, who took me on a tour of their new building. The classrooms are amazing, each of them have incredible toys for young expanding minds; Blocks to build, crayons to color with, puzzles to solve, honestly, I wanted to stick around just to play with everything myself. I told my wife, and we soon came back for another visit with Baz. His eyes lit up! With only a moment of apprehension, he was soon playing with everything he could get his hands on. There are enormous windows in the Wisteria classroom that he can look out of and see everything going on on Halsted. Of course this is particularly important when Firetrucks pass by. In addition, they have both outside and inside playrooms on site, which is great for winters.
He now goes there full time. Both the Lead Teacher and Teacher, Ms. Dorothy and Ms. Chestine respectively, are fantastic. Ms. Dorothy told us early on that she enjoys playing with all ages of kids, but she particularly loves the 2 – 3 year olds. This is such a huge change from so many other places we looked at, and were involved with. To have someone who specializes in that age range, and is an expert at knowing how to deal with them is huge. Ms. Dorothy is clearly not just filling a position. Baz’s verbal skills have expanded immensely since he started there just three weeks ago (it feels silly to write this, but the fact he can say Squirrel and point at a Squirrel is mind boggling).
Since day 1 Baz has been so enthusiastic about going in. I don’t know the finite details of what they do there, but they are doing the right things correctly. We feel so lucky that this school opened within a month and a half of us moving to Chicago. If you are looking for a school to send your little one, I could not recommend this one high enough. I’d love to tell you a sour note to this whole experience, and believe you me, I would, but there just isn’t one. From teachers to administrator to owners, childcare is top priority, and that is the way it should be.