A new bed for Samuel
As Samuel dislikes the confines of the baby cot very much, we decided to upgrade him to a bed. Grace found a second-hand IKEA Kritter bed ($89 new) with Vyssa Snappna mattress ($40 new) for $50 at Tiong Bahru, so we drove over to the place after dinner and picked up the bed. It is in very good conditions as the owner (small boy) did not want to sleep on the bed so the parents sold it off. The mattress is cheap and soft foam, but for Samuel, it should be OK.
It fits just nicely into the car, with all 6 of us, too! The older children were very helpful in carrying and loading/unloading it.
Upon reaching home, and while we prepared the space by clearing the old cot, Samuel was already taking to like the new bed.
After cleaning the bed and the room, we moved the bed into place, under the close supervision and occasional help by Samuel.
That’s Samuel on his new bed. He likes it. We added some cardboard under the mattress as we can feel the bed planks under the soft mattress (cheap foam).
Here’s a little story about the cot. We found the cot thrown away at Redhill Close a few months prior to Esther’s birth in 2002. Thanking God for the free cot, we took it home and cleaned it. We had to find a piece of ply-wood and cut to size, and also bought a mattress from IKEA and cut it to size. The door rails were also damaged, which YowCH repaired. Esther was born when the new paint we applied was still wet! After 13 years, we left the cot, the board and the mattress at our Rumah Tinggi ground floor, perhaps someone else can make use of this cot.
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