Sleepwalker

Poor Kate. I'm sure she'll love reading this story someday when she's 40 yrs old.

I was sitting downstairs with Nick asleep in my arms when I heard a commotion upstairs. Someone was out of bed and I assumed had to go to the bathroom pretty badly - there was running involved.

When I got upstairs, I saw Kate sitting on the kitchen stool. With her pants down. She had just left a gallon sized puddle on the kitchen floor.

She appeared to be completely awake - eyes open and she was talking to me. I tried to steer her to the bathroom (I still had Nick in my arms), but she started rifling through the kitchen drawers looking for toilet paper!

I got her into the bathroom and pointed her towards the toilet paper and then went to set Nick down so that I could help clean her up.

When I got back, she had just shut a bathroom drawer and she had toothpaste on her leg. I honestly think she tried wiping herself with her sister's toothpaste! I'm glad I saw it so that I could dispose of it before it was used again....

I finally got her cleaned and dressed and put her back into bed.

During the entire thing she was alert, but just confused and I suppose "sleepwalking". Isn't that strange?

This is not a regular occurence, so it took me completely by surprise. She normally goes straight to the bathroom and straight back. She must have been in a very deep sleep or something.....