Jolie sleeps on a bed

As we start clearing the other room in preparation for the baby, we thought it was time to let Jolie sleep in a proper bed instead of the mattress on the floor. Everything was ready weeks and months ahead. She was already sleeping on Cobby's old mattress, so we just needed to set up her Dad's old bed frame and put the mattress on it. MIL had even bought a "safety bar" for her bed way ahead of time. So since it was the weekend, and we're at home, we just cleaned up the frame and set up the bed for her. Just like that.

Well, we did needed to replace some of the worn out screw and nuts and I gave it a good cleansing, but on top of that, we were a little worried that she wouldn't like sleeping on the bed. Well, we were wrong! Jolie couldn't wait to hop onto her "new" bed and we had to keep nagging at her to get down as we weren't ready yet. But when it was finally done, she hopped onto her bed and happily exclaimed that it was "so high up", and that she "can see...(her) books". Haha... I think she meant that she can see her book shelf from a higher point of view now.

I did consider buying a newer, fancy children's bed, but what for? Those fancy beds cost a few hundred dollars and they are smaller than your typical beds, so in a few years you would need a new bed again. Meanwhile, we have a custom cut foam mattress that doesn't go out of shape, and a unused bed frame that looks perfectly fine and sturdy. Jolie could probably sleep in it all the way until she grows up! Why not?

Anyway, seeing Jolie enjoying her new bed really moved me. Seemed like yesterday when she was just a tiny baby, looking so small curled up on her giant cot. Now, she's gone into a new phase in her life where she's sleeping by herself in her own bed like a big girl. Where did the time go? My baby's growing up so fast!!!

Drama aside, I was a little worried if the "safety bar" could take her weight or if she would fall of her bed, afterall, she really moves around alot when she sleeps! When she was sleeping on her mattress, she could sometimes roll off her bed and end up sleeping on the floor a meter away! So I got up twice that night to check on her. Thankfully she slept normally and safely that night in her new bed.

Sigh, another accomplishment for her and us. Cheers. :)

Update:
The following week, I thought it would be nice to give the bed frame a fresh coat of paint, so during the National Day holidays, Cobby painted the frame white. But the smell of the fresh paint was so strong, we had to put it in the living room to let the smell dissipate for 2 whole weeks before letting jolie sleep on it again. So now her bed is actually white. :)