We moved and April started preschool

One month after we got Mazda 5, lots of other things happened. We had started looking for preschool for a while, Mommy feel April's ready for more formal school than just daycare which focuses on feeding, sleeping, safety and of course the most important one - speaking Chinese. It's a chance for April to learn English, but Mommy doesn't want her to forget Chinese. It's hard to find bilingual school. They are either international school that charges insane price or the waiting list is 2 years long. We visited a few but couldn't make a decision. It was a coincidence that Mommy talked to her coworker during a Friday social. She sent her daughter to a Challenger school, yet she really like the other one she visited, it's her husband's decision overruled her choice. Mommy went to visit her choice and really liked it, it's mainly an English speaking preschool, but provides Chinese and Spanish language classes. And most important, they will have an opening in 1 month!!! And the best of all, it's 5 minutes drive from Mommy's workplace! The only issue, April will start with 2 days a week, there is no slot for full time student yet. So other 3 days April still stays in daycare. It would be a slow English pick up, but that's okay.

After Mommy enrolled April, Daddy left for his b-trip. It was one Saturday afternoon, April was napping upstair, Mommy's on instant messenger with Daddy in Shanghai. We started talking about #2. At that time, we have 2 tenants, we need to send them out, it's already very crowded. Mommy initially thought with April's loud crying voice, it will naturally push them away. But their ears seem to be plugable or what? They didn't make a single complain on the noises. They stayed in our household as normal as can be. It's unbelievable! But we do need a change other than claiming back more space. The area around us is not that safe and not that good. Mommy went on to mlslisting and search for single family houses. In any desirable location in the bayarea, a single family will cost >1 Million. Mommy made the search criteria so stringent, only 4 houses returned back. And the square footage is way smaller than our townhouse. Fine, so Mommy made the search criteria broader, including townhouse and condo. There was one stand out. After April woke up from her nap, we went on a mission to look for that house. The townhouse is similar to our current one at that time, but the agent didn't care about us at all. He told us, there is already a buyer and just need to wait for the next day confirmation. The following day, Mommy called just to make sure it's sold, but it's not, the buyer needed 1 more day to think. Then everything happened in lighting speed. When Daddy came back from Shanghai 5 days later, the townhouse is already ours. Since then Mommy is a famous person in Daddy's office, he told all his coworkers, "My wife bought a house without me."

Now let Mommy draw you the triangle. The townhouse we bought is 10 minutes drive to April's preschool, and also 10 minutes drive to Mommy's office. Between the preschool and Mommy's office it's about 5 minutes drive. Location did make our lives much easier, but also we had been pushing our laziness to the limit. April is always 1 minute early to school and almost always the last one to leave school without paying a fine :P And since the triangle involves Mommy's office, therefore, Mommy is the sole school driver. Sometime if Mommy needs to be away (rarely) then Daddy will have to endure the traffic nightmare to avoid paying a fine.

With multiple changes happening at the same time, April seems to handle it okay, Mommy thinks her personality help in some way. We felt bad to leave her alone during weekends when we need to fix up the house, but we couldn't help it. One person doing the fixing would be too slow, we sacrificed her both unintentionally and intentionally. She's still with us, just our attention was not on her. She's surrounded with dangerous tools, we kept warning her not to touch this and that. But there was nothing for her to play with, she would pick up anything that we didn't tell her "No!" and play with her imagination.

School started rough since she couldn't communicate with anyone there, thankfully there is this Chinese teacher who can help translate her needs to the teacher. She almost never ate the lunch Mommy prepared (Mommy will have another post on this later, daycare provides all meals, this was new to April and Mommy) Mommy found her a temporary daycare that's closer to Daddy's workplace. That's also new to her, new daycare lady, new location, new kids. This half and half transition period last about 4 months before she turned full time in her preschool.