"Three minutes," he responds confidently, as he has been taught in the center's toilet-training system.

"Okay, three minutes," the caregiver acknowledges.

Meanwhile, the middle group waits impatiently for word on a class apple pie that was a morning's project now baking in the facility's kitchen.

In addition to the kitchen, the center boasts a climbing structure and special child-sized windows and toilets.

In its move from the HLS site, the daycare center, has gained two additional classrooms, including an infant room for children as young as three months old.

After all the upheaval, things appear to be running smoothly at the new center. The carevigers can now focus on art projects and toddler temper tantrums now that the negotiations, neighborhood protests and moving day chaos recede into the past.

Today, controlling the spread of pink shaving cream is a the most important concern for the Botanic Garden caregivers. Four children in the middle age group are clustered around a bin filled with shaving cream tinted red with food coloring.

"Look at you," one of the caregivers admonishes as she wipes red shaving cream off one girl's shirt.

"Look at you," the toddler reports as she mischeviously lathers her teacher.