Strange Things Going Bump in the Night

The other day, Shawn and I were watching a movie together I fell asleep on the couch while Shawn watched the end of the movie we'd started.  The movie had just ended and I was pretending I hadn't been asleep, trying to make conversation about what a great flick it was when Gavin came down the stairs.  We'd put him to bed several hours ago and he usually doesn't get up again until morning.

He walked over and crumpled into Shawn's open arms while we repeatedly asked him if he was Ok, did he have a nightmare, did he have to go potty?  He was completely unresponsive.  His eyes were open and glazed over but he wouldn't answer.  Just a minute or so after he'd come down the stairs, he turned around and went back up.  Shawn and I looked at each other quizzically and then Shawn followed him up the stairs.  

Gavin walked into his bedroom, got back in bed, then got back out and was walking in circles around his room.  His eyes were still open but he was definitely not acting like himself.  

By the time I made my way up there (I'm a lil on the pokey side these days!), Shawn had guided him in the bathroom and Gavin had peed just a tiny bit on his PJ shorts.  We got him in clean skivvies and threw his shorts in the dirty clothes basket, tucked him in and kissed him good night.

The next morning I woke before him.  When he came downstairs to find me, he was close to tears.  He said "Mom, my pants came off while I was sleeping!" with a worried look on his face.  He had looked all over his bed and couldn't find his shorts anywhere and was very concerned about what had happened to them.  He didn't remember a thing about the last night!

Once I explained what had happened, and then of course repeated the story to Shawn and my mom within earshot of him, he found the humor in the situation and giggled along with me.  I think Shawn was more than a little freaked out about his zombified kid, though!

My mom said that sleep walking is hereditary... I remember doing it once as a child and she said my Great~Uncle used to do it frequently.  This could make for some interesting late nights for us!

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In baby news ~ I'm 28 weeks today!  The babies should be around two and a quarter pounds, like a Chinese Cabbage according to babycenter.com (I didn't know cabbages had nationalities?) and about 14.8" long.  I'm now officially starting my third trimester.  

It seems like just yesterday we were stepping off the plane, in the middle of a cold Colorado winter, into the warm humid air of Honolulu... walking to baggage claim to meet the Makua for the first time ~ days away from transplanting these two lil embryos into my uterus ~ smiles and hugs and lei's and feeling like so much more than strangers already.  

In just 10 weeks, they'll meet their boys for the first time.  And a couple weeks later, an entirely different scene... no longer strangers but two families whose lives are forever intertwined by these two lil people that they shared with me for nine months, saying good bye as they head home.

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My first Eco~Women post is up!  It's less a post and more of a link to click on, but it's a start. :)  Go here to see it!  I appreciate all the SuperHero name suggestions.  I think I'm going to go with Captain Compost.  

I've submitted a few ideas of post ideas that I think readers might find useful but would love input from my readers here ~ what would you like to see on an Eco Blog?