Midnight Encounters

These days around midnight or close, I'd find myself in a state of shock. Like last night, I was lying down on the floor next to the coffee table watching Idol, I saw a pair of (toddler's) legs from under it. Other times while I was in the kitchen, I'd catch glimpses of a tottering entity in the dark, accompanied by clicking sounds of the pacifier ring hitting against it's shield.

Pumpkin sleepwalks a lot. She sleeps as early as 8pm, and gets off the bed around 11pm carrying her little pillow out of the room looking for me where she'd just stand silently till I put her back in bed. Like last night, she came to look for me in the living room and stood still next to the table where my view was blocked. Before this sleepwalking phase (when she was still sleeping in the cot) she'd sit upright for a couple of seconds in the middle of her sleep before she crashed her head back on to the pillow. This, the Mister witnessed when he came home past midnight when the rest of us are asleep.

Very often, at the point of time these events happened (in the dark), it's not very funny.


Too much dark and goth isnt good