The TV addiction

This is Marin and Calli enjoying cartoons one afternoon as the weather turned ugly and both were suffering from snotty noses, so they wished to snuggle up. The new Lion sleeping bag unzipped flat which they thought was lovely, cuddly. However it is the deep concentration on the 14 month olds face which amazes me. How can they become so attached to tv so soon in life?

Marin now has to say "please" for anything she wishes for, and, as she is only starting to use a few words, this is beyond her but she says "puh", very, very repetitively when she finds the rice cakes or something similar. We had bought a small box of Timbits when getting coffees the other day, (a very infrequent occurrence) and I was throwing away the box.....when this little creature quickly came shuffling up to me saying "puh, puh, puh"......again she had recognised the box and remembered the little donut she had been allowed to eat as a treat.

Seeing it going in the garbage was very traumatic and I had to find something quickly to divert her attention, luckily there was a squirrel running by outside and she watched it.

As TV, Timbits are all limited in their household, how is it that they can be so entranced and so focused on certain things, their memory bank now stamped with a picture of a timbit box etc?

Yes, as I was watching the Amazing Race tonight and then Desperate Housewives, it occurred to me that I am as bad, my days of the week go by the daily tv show I wish to watch.........and I wonder where my grandchildren get it from? DUH!!!! Their mother and I will phone each other as to possible outcomes during those shows.....DUH!!

It is extremely cold here tonight, such a biting chilly wind, one that just seems to go through you, and believe me to go through me that is a pretty strong biting wind!!! It is currently minus 8 and a clear, twinkly star night, which I only have the knowledge of as I just had to put the garbage out. Where is a man when I need one?

Tried taking pictures of my cat tonight, but the minute the shutter goes down halfway and the red light comes on her face, she squints, silly cat......guess its time for a consultation with my technology expert in the morning! Hello Montreal????