While You Were Sleeping

Last night a few hours after the kids had gone to sleep, I heard a noise in Maddi's room that sounded like her getting out of bed. I expected to hear her start screaming and crying having a night terror, but I never heard anything so I assumed she just got back in bed. Later when I went to bed, I went to her room and shut her door because we always leave it cracked for her when she goes to sleep and then shut it when we go to bed. Then I went to my bathroom and brushed my teeth and got ready for bed. The tv was on in our bedroom, so I went to grab the remote from the foot of our bed and then glanced over toward Brett's side of the bed and nearly jumped out of my skin when I found THIS....Maddi sound asleep in our rocking chair! It FREAKED me out to see a person in our room, but when I realized it was just Maddi Girl I was cracking up. I guess when I heard her up in her room she was sleep walking into our bedroom and walked over to the rocking chair and made herself comfortable. A lot of times when she has night terrors we will bring her in our room and rock her and talk to her to try to get her to wake up. I guess she just decided to sooth herself this time in the rocking chair.

This is not her first time to sleep walk, in fact she does it every few months. This morning we asked her about it and she has no recollection of it at all. Funny thing is that yesterday afternoon I watched a show I had taped on Oprah a few weeks ago about Night Terrors and other sleep issues. I was interested in learning about it because Maddi frequently has night terrors and sleep walking. I'm pretty sure that if the tv had not been on in our room Brett and I would have just crawled into bed in the dark and never even seen her sleeping in the chair. Imagine our horror when daylight came to find her snoozing away. Never a dull moment in our house, even while we're sleeping!