Sleep Walker

A little background...

When Makenna was about 4 years old, we started noticing something about her. She sleep walks!!! It started out as a minor thing...getting up in the middle of the night, opening her door, closing her door and going back to bed. Over the next few months, it progressed into somewhat intense night terrors. She would wake up screaming at the top of her lungs. I would rush to her to make sure she was okay and the look on her face was always the same...blank stare, but screaming hysterically at the same time. We would try to talk to her to try and calm her down, but nothing worked. We basically had to just hold her until she snapped out of it. At first, it scared me to death. I didn't know what to do, but as time went on, we figured out how to handle it. Thankfully, this has completely come to an end...the night terrors, that is.

Even though the night terrors are behind us, Makenna still continues to sleep walk on occasion. She hasn't done anything that she could get hurt doing, or hurt someone else, for that matter. This was our experience the other night. Mind you,the sleep walking is not that funny, but on this occasion, I couldn't help but laugh...

Keith works at night, so I'm here by myself almost every night with the kids. Makenna got up and came into my room and proceeded to my side of the bed like always. She was wrapped up in her blanket and whimpering a little, but no big deal. I told her to go back to bed and she proceded to turn around and do just that. After a minute or two, I decided to get up and check on her. Her bedroom is right across from mine and when I opened the door, I noticed that it was a little lighter in the hall than usual. Makenna had gone back into her room and turned her light on. Now, sometimes she gets up and turns the light on and goes back to bed. So, I opened the door so that I could turn the light off and I found her standing in the middle of her room. She had taken her nightgown off and threw it in the floor and was desperately trying to put on a pair of panties. The funny part was that she already had some on and was trying to put on yet another pair on top!!! After calling her name a few times, she woke up and I took the second pair of undies from her, put her nightgown back on and put her back to bed. The next morning, she didn't remember a thing about it. When I asked her, she looked at me like I had three heads!!!

Makenna, I know that when you're all grown up and read this, you will probably be a little embarrassed, but I couldn't help but tell the story. No matter what, I still thought it was kind of cute.

Mr. Smarty Pants

Keith arrived home a little earlier from work this morning and decided to ride with me to take the kids to school. As we had dropped Makenna off and were headed to pre-school to drop Noah off, this was the conversation in the car:

Noah: "Mama", "Mama"

Keith: "Yes, Noah. What do you need?"

Noah: "No, Daddy...I talk to Mama."

We still have a hard time with Noah due to his speech issues, but there was no mistaking what came out of his mouth on this occasion.