In-home daycare attitude and prices, and great if you want your child to learn Spanish. They have room for about 6 infants and I'd guess two or three dozen children up to preschool age.
Not so great if you want to be able to communicate with your child's primary caregiver in English, though. The director, Isabel, is fluent in English and can act as a medium if needed, but it was frustrating to not be able to talk to the infant caregiver, Gloria. However, you could just tell that Gloria loved taking care of my baby girl and that my baby girl loved her right back.
PROS: Affordable, location conveniently on a large thoroughfare. Worked with me on dietary requests such as reusing breastmilk until the bottle was finished, not tossing any leftovers; wasn't super strict or crazy about sending her home unless she was very obviously ill, which only happened once in half a year. She never once had any diaper rashes, and they keep a fantastic log of her activities, how often she was changed, how much she ate, etc. They have a great outdoor back area that also let in the sun through large wide windows all through one side of the wall. They were quick to make gifts and crafts even at a few months old, and I saw some of the older kids playing dress up once with a wide variety of costumes from doctor to firefighter, etc, and many times saw some involved lessons with the kids sitting attentively to learn their alphabet.
CONS: They didn't remove or cover their shoes even in the infant area, where kids were playing and crawling. Normal daycare pickup and dropoff difficulties (can't be a minute late but can't come do a pickup during naptime without some fuss). When she had a cold, she would have snot tracks everywhere which showed that they didn't wipe assiduously. During drop off, I saw some of the caregivers of the older kids several times ignoring fussy, fighting, or just outright sobbing kids in favor of chatting with one another or checking their cell phones. Not always or often, but sometimes - enough to give me pause.
The most important thing was that they loved my baby and took care of her, customizing care to the best they could. But I'm glad I took her out of there when we moved, before she was walking and talking. read more