Couch Potato

This week Lisa and I are celebrating out fifth (!) wedding anniversary. I guess I can say now that I have extensive experience living with an American. I can mainly think of positive things to say about that, but I can also mention at least one serious drawback: The amount of TV that is being watched in our house.

For the longest time I was able to keep Tobias from watching any TV at all. In fact he didn't seem even remotely interested in watching TV... Recently our cable company stopped providing an analog cable signal, so, we had to switch to digital. We bought the extensive package including a lot of channels with american TV shows on it. It also includes a channel called Baby-TV with a continuous flow of children's programs. Well, Tobias has discovered this and now he is turning into a couch potato. This is what he looks like when he is watching....

He has been good about turning it off for dinner or bath or whatever else, but it is a quite disturbing phenomenon. Of course, by now he knows how to turn it on and off himself, so I guess we'll have to become strict(er) about this.

I have to admit it is quite cute to see him watch TV like this.... I guess it's all about balance... we'll see.