So One Of Us

A-girl had her first sleepwalking episode last night. She is going through a phase where every single night, she wakes up at some point and climbs into bed with us. It's usually around 5:30 a.m. or so, we are used to her getting up. She is very big about talking in her sleep and sitting up in bed looking like she's wide awake but obviously totally "not there". However, this is the first time in A-girl history that we've actually seen her sleepwalk.

We had just gone to bed, around 10:30 p.m., last night. I had turned off the light and was on my way to dreamland, when we hear a, "Kerplunk!" It was the telltale sound of one of the girls rolling out of their bed. Then we hear the sound of little feet, and here comes A-girl shuffling through the hall. We have full view of the scene. We totally expect her to come into our room, but she walks past our room and into the bathroom. She tries to flush the toilet. She didn't go to the bathroom, it's only been mere seconds, she's just trying to flush. It occurs to hubbs and I that she is sleepwalking. We watch, amazed. She comes out of the bathroom, stops in the hall, standing there for a few seconds. Next, she walks in our direction and runs right smack into one of our bedroom doors (we have double doors). That door is actually shut and locked; it jiggles loudly in place. She doesn't react to it. Then she comes in our room and hops in bed. Not a peep, completely asleep.

Hubbs and I quietly laugh, cuz that is so A-girl. She is one of us. Hubby used to sleepwalk all the time when he was little. He had a lot of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs dreams, so looking back, he is pretty sure he was singing "Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Off To Work We Go," with the Dwarfs, down his hallway.

Hubbs tells me I talk and laugh in my sleep. But I've only sleepwalked once that I know of. I was little, a little older than A-girl, and my family and I were staying at the beach, in this old two-story home, that had very steep stairs and a small hallway upstairs. I was sleeping with my cousin (who was in her twenties at the time). She saw me get up, walk down the hall, and turn on the bathroom light. Then she heard the toilet flush. She watched me walk back to the room, feeling along the wall. It looked like I was feeling for a door knob. Then I got back into bed. I don't remember it at all. After hearing about it, the scary part was those stairs. I remember thinking how I could have fallen down the stairs. I could have died (drama, drama)! Stairs and I do not get along.



So it was funny to see my own child do this. Not concerning yet, but of course, as the Momma, I totally rack my brain wondering if there's is something going on in her little life that is causing anxiety or anything. Hubbs tells me he used to sleepwalk right before a test. I can't think of anything A-girl would be worried about, so I just tuck it away for the memories for now, and blog about it, because it falls under the, "I am so blogging this" category.