Toddler Bed

The next step in Jordan's life has begun.  Chasity and I have been discussing getting a toddler bed for Jordan.  He is now two and a half years old.  He can understand what we say to some extent and we can certainly understand him. We had gotten a toddler bed for Brody and Kara at this age and it worked out great.

Since we no longer had a toddler bed, we were looking to purchase one.  The local consignment sale started this week so we went to see if they had one.  They had four different beds.  The one we wanted was the cheapest one which surprised us.  We loaded it in the van and headed home.

I took the toddler bed in the house and set it up.  I asked Jordan, "Do you want a big boy’s bed?"  He looked at me a little uncertain.  Jordan likes the familiar and new things don't interest him as much as Brody who is always interested in new things.  

Jordan said, “I want a big boys bed.”  Once it was set up we let him crawl on the bed.  He got on it but we didn’t see the joy on his face like we did when Brody and Kara got their beds.  He was trying to like the bed and I could tell.

His first nap in the bed was a short one.  He woke up about an hour later ready for life.  When he woke up, he just sat in the bed and cried like he was in his crib.  I came in and asked him, “Do you want to get up?”  He told me he wanted to get up and crawled out of bed.

Tonight after the Bible story, I prayed with Kara while we knelt by her bed.  Jordan had seen us do this every night.  I then went and prayed with Brody while we knelt next to his bed.  Jordan had also seen us do this every night.  When it was his turn, Jordan ran and knelt next to his bed.  I asked Jordan to pray his prayer.  He folded his hands next to his bed and said, “Jesus, I love you, Amen.”

After he finished the “Amen” he jumped up into his bed and was ready to go to sleep.  The thing that hit me is that Jordan felt so grown up having his own bed to pray next to.  I can tell that he is now really excited about his toddler bed.