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                                                                     Exhibit 4.1

                               ENESCO GROUP, INC.
                                Itasca, Illinois

                      CERTIFICATE OF GRANT OF NON-QUALIFIED
                                  STOCK OPTION

                                                Date of Grant:  March 28, 2001
                                                Total Number of Shares:  300,000
                                                Price per Share:  $6.20

To:  Daniel DalleMolle

Dear Dan:

         This letter is a certificate formally granting you a Non-qualified
Stock Option with respect to the number of shares indicated above. The Stock
Option exercise price will be $6.20 per share. Your option will become
exercisable only after six months from the date of grant and subject to the
Company achieving certain stock fair market value performance criteria or,
without conditions, after the eighth anniversary of the date of grant. The Stock
Option granted under this certificate is not to be treated as an incentive stock
option under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. The terms of this Stock Option
are as if it were granted under the Company's 1996 Stock Option Plan (the
"Plan").

         The Company agrees to file a Registration Statement on Form S-8 with
the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to shares of common stock
underlying the Stock Option.

         You may exercise your right to purchase all or any of the shares
included under this grant on or after the date on which those shares become
exercisable but, in any event, not later than March 27, 2011.

         In order to exercise, you must forward a completed Stock Option
Exercise Order together with payment in full to the Treasurer, Enesco Group,
Inc., 225 Windsor Drive, Itasca, Illinois 60143, for the shares which you elect
to purchase. You can elect to make your purchase in cash, Enesco Group, Inc.
stock, or a combination of cash and Enesco Group, Inc. stock.

         Please be advised that the Company will accept shares acquired under a
Stock Option program of the Company in payment for new option shares only if the
shares tendered by the optionee have been held by such optionee for a period of
at least six months and are free and clear of all liens and encumbrances.

         No purchase can be made of fewer than ten shares at any one time. Any
exercise of the option will be effective on the date when payment is received in
the office of the Treasurer, except that no payment will be accepted which is
received after March 27, 2011. You will receive a stock certificate representing
shares for which you have made payment.

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         Under existing law, the difference between the price paid for any
shares purchased under this option and their market value on the date or dates
the option is exercised will be subject to any applicable taxes, including the
withholding of federal income, social security and medicare taxes. In addition,
there may be applicable state or local taxes and withholding requirements. The
payment of all such taxes is of course your personal responsibility. However,
the Company is also responsible for meeting the withholding requirements and in
order to do so will retain the required number of shares purchased under the
option unless you elect to deposit with it an amount equal to any required
withholding.

         This option is subject to the termination under certain circumstances.
Please review these provisions carefully in connection with any termination of
employment.

         This option is exercisable during your lifetime only by you and is not
transferable by you, except in the event of your death and then only under
certain circumstances. Any attempted transfer or other disposition of the option
by you will be void and will constitute valid grounds for its cancellation by
the Company.

         This stock option grant is made as if it were under the Plan, as it may
be amended from time to time. A copy of the Plan, as amended, is enclosed
together with a Prospectus dated September 6, 1996. Please read these carefully.

         This option will be of no force or effect and no rights will exist
under it after March 27, 2011.

         We would appreciate your signing the enclosed acknowledgment confirming
your receipt of this Certificate of Grant and returning it to me.

                                                      ENESCO GROUP, INC.

                                                      /s/ M. Frances Durden

                                                      M. Frances Durden
                                                      Secretary

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                                                                     EXHIBIT 4.4

            FIRST AMENDMENT TO AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT

         THIS FIRST AMENDMENT TO AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as
of April 1, 2002 (this "Amendment"), is by and between CHILDTIME CHILDCARE,
INC., an Illinois corporation (the "Company"), and BANK ONE, MICHIGAN, a
Michigan banking corporation (the "Bank").

                                  INTRODUCTION

         A. The Company and the Bank have entered into an Amended and Restated
Credit Agreement, dated as of January 31, 2002, as amended or modified from time
to time (the "Credit Agreement").

         B. The Company has requested the Bank to amend the Credit Agreement in
certain respects, and the Bank is willing to do so on the terms and conditions
set forth in this Amendment.

         NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual
agreements herein and in the Credit Agreement contained, the parties hereto
agree as follows:

                    ARTICLE 1. AMENDMENT TO CREDIT AGREEMENT

         The Credit Agreement hereby is amended as follows:

               1.1     The definition of the term "Letter of Credit" in Section
1.1 is amended and restated in full as follows:

                  "Letter of Credit" means a standby letter of credit having a
         stated expiry date or date upon which the draft must be reimbursed not
         later than twelve months after the Termination Date or, in the case of
         up to an aggregate outstanding principal amount of $1,200,000 of Letter
         of Credit Advances, not later than December 31, 2005, issued by the
         Bank for the account of the Company under an application and related
         documentation acceptable to the Bank requiring, among other things,
         immediate reimbursement by the Company to the Bank in respect of all
         drafts or other demand for payment honored thereunder and all expenses
         paid or incurred by the Bank relative thereto.

                    ARTICLE 2. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

              In order to induce the Bank to enter into this Amendment, the
Company represents and warrants that:

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               2.1 The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of
this Amendment are within its corporate powers, have been duly authorized by all
necessary corporate action and are not in contravention of any law, rule or
regulation, or any judgment, decree, writ, injunction, order or award of any
arbitrator, court or governmental authority, or of the terms of the Company's
charter or by-laws, or of any contract or undertaking to which the Company is a
party or by which the Company or its property is or may be bound or affected.

               2.2 This Amendment is a legal, valid and binding obligation of
the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms.

               2.3 No consent, approval or authorization of or declaration,
registration or filing with any governmental authority or any nongovernmental
person or entity, including without limitation any creditor or stockholder of
the Company, is required on the part of the Company in connection with the
execution, delivery and performance of this Amendment or the transactions
contemplated hereby or as a condition to the legality, validity or
enforceability of this Amendment

               2.4 After giving effect to the amendments contained in Article 1
of this Amendment, the representations and warranties contained in Article IV of
the Credit Agreement and in the Loan Documents are true on and as of the date
hereof with the same force and effect as if made on and as of the date hereof,
and no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

                            ARTICLE 3. MISCELLANEOUS

               3.1 If the Company shall fail to perform or observe any term,
covenant or agreement in this Amendment, or any representation or warranty made
by the Company in this Amendment shall prove to have been incorrect in any
material respect when made, such occurrence shall be deemed to constitute an
Event of Default.

               3.2 All references to the Credit Agreement in any other document,
instrument or certificate referred to in the Credit Agreement or delivered in
connection therewith or pursuant thereto hereafter shall be deemed references to
the Credit Agreement, as amended hereby

               3.3 The Loan Documents and, subject to the amendments herein
provided, the Credit Agreement shall in all respects continue in full force and
effect.

               3.4 Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the
respective meanings ascribed thereto in the Credit Agreement.

               3.5 This Amendment shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of Michigan.

               3.6 The Company agrees to pay the reasonable fees and expenses of
Dickinson Wright PLLC, counsel for the Bank, in connection with the negotiation
and preparation of this

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Amendment and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, and in
connection with advising the Bank as to its rights and responsibilities with
respect thereto.

               3.7 This Amendment may be executed upon any number of
counterparts with the same effect as if the signatures thereto were upon the
same instrument.

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         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be
duly executed and delivered as of the day and year first-above written.

                                       CHILDTIME CHILDCARE, INC.

                                       By: /s/ Leonard C. Tylka
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                                           Its:   CFO and Treasurer

                                       BANK ONE, MICHIGAN

                                       By: /s/ Richard C. Ellis
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                                           Its: First Vice President

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                            GUARANTOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

         Each of the undersigned hereby acknowledges that it has reviewed and
fully consents to the foregoing First Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit
Agreement (the "Amendment"), that the Guaranty Agreements and all other Loan
Documents made by each of the undersigned in favor of the Bank continue in full
force and each of the undersigned acknowledges and agrees that it has no
defenses, counterclaims or offsets with respect thereof. All references to the
Credit Agreement in the Guaranty Agreements and in all other Loan Documents or
any other document, instrument or certificate referred to in the Credit
Agreement or delivered in connection therewith or pursuant thereto, hereafter
shall be deemed references to the Credit Agreement, as amended by the Amendment.
Except as otherwise expressly set forth herein, capitalized terms used but not
defined herein shall have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in the
Amendment or the Credit Agreement, as the case may be.

                                       CHILDTIME LEARNING CENTERS, INC.

                                       By: /s/ Leonard C. Tylka
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                                           Its:  CFO and Treasurer

                                       CHILDTIME CHILDCARE-PMC, INC.

                                       By: /s/ Denise A. Pollicella
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                                           Its:  President and Secretary

                                       CHILDTIME CHILDCARE-MICHIGAN, INC.

                                       By: /s/ Norman E. Johnson
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                                           Its:  President

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