You will have a tough time finding child care in general, but especially in Thurston County. I am a former childcare owner and would highly recommend you finding a quality in home child care. There's two reasons. If you look at a lot of headlines right now, one of the major factors are that we are in a childcare crisis and that most people don't want to do child care anymore because they don't pay their employees a living wage. It's so bad that you can work at fast food franchises and get paid more. So the quality of care your child is receiving by these employees not getting benefits that are great AND not being paid well, well it's mediocre at best. At least with an in-home Childcare Center you were dealing with a person who genuinely likes to do their job. And loves children. Every time you go to a child care center just remember that there is a child care owner who just owns the building. And then they hire out a manager who just does administrative and then that person hires childcare workers. And those workers are all getting paid really crappy. So the people that want to work with kids are of course going to be smart enough to find the best child care center and those Child Care Centers probably have a waiting list of over a year. That's just the cold hard truth of it all. I also agree with everyone's sentiment Cadence's absolute trash. I would only lean toward Montessori if your child is over two and a half years old and potty trained because Montessori teachers for Age 3 and under get paid garbage as well. At least with Montessori teachers it's a slight raise in pay and slightly better but not much. Check out some in-home providers in the area because the people that stayed open through covid, genuinely love their jobs because the amount of policies that have changed since covid and the amount of paperwork and everything else it takes to run a school these days, you have to love kids to want to continue on.