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i just had my first encounter with a sleepwalkin' samantha. i was downstairs in the kitchen and heard her get out of bed (which involved a 6 step climb down her ladder) so i went to see what she was doing. she met me at the top of the stairs and i asked her if she needed to go potty.
sam - "no"
me - "why did you get out of bed?" is she sleepwalking? her eyes are closed, but maybe the light from downstairs is too bright...
sam - "ummmm.... i don't know. i just wanted to tell you that i have enough room."
me - "enough room for what?"
sam - "for the class. there's more room now."
me - "what class?"
sam - "my sparks class..." (motions around her) "..right here"
she had an awful awful night at sparks (kids club at church) tonight. she was crying for most of the time there so i thought maybe she was dreaming about it or needed to talk about it some more. so i sat her on my lap and said
"need to talk about anything?"
sam - "sure!--what?"
me - "are you having any dreams or anything?"
sam - "no... i love you daddy... daddy... dad. dad."
daddy? i knew by now she was surely asleep!
me - "daddy?!?!??? samantha are you sleeping? look at me.." she opened her eyes as i asked her "who am i?"
sam - "mmooooommmmmmyyyy!"
after making sure (or make sure-ing in samantha language---that post to come later) that she was okay and didn't need to talk about any dreams or anything i took her to the bathroom to go potty. i assumed she was awake by now since she had opened her eyes, but when we got in the bathroom she walked over to the towels, not the toilet... so i got her over to the toilet and she pulled up her nightgown and sat on the potty---with her panties still on!!! thankfully i caught it in time and didn't have to clean up a mess! so was she still sleepwalking? i have no idea. can you sleep walk with your eyes open?
she's back in bed and will hopefully be there the rest of the night. although now i'm a little paranoid! :-)
4 comments:
That's hilarious!! I can totally picture her doing that! Have a great day!
LOL.. None of my kids have ever walked in their sleep that I am aware of so I don't know if you can do it with your eyes open.
I am sorry she had a bad night at sparks that stinks.
Yes, you can sleep walk with your eyes open!!! Kaydence sleep walks a lot and isn't it freaky?? She gets up, plays with random toys, says random things, and mostly cries or yells at Kylie. LOL
It's scary. The first time I thought she must be possessed!
Cute story! I used to sleep walk, too. But mostly because I had night terrors and eventually I'd wake up. I was usually hysterical (as in crying in hysterics) when I slept walk.
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