The television.
Now I'm not sure exactly when she realized it was there, but in the past week it's been THE thing to look at while she's in the family room. For those of you who don't know, I broke down last December and bought a high definition TV; I'm now a junkie for the small number of HD channels we get, watching every NFL , NBA and NCAA hoops game I can.
But Elena's nowhere near as picky. Regardless of what's on, she'll now stop moving around and I'll notice that her gaze has drifted toward it. And it'll placate her for a good 10 minutes or so... even longer, I think, than the ceiling fan.
My favorite moment was yesterday. She'd had a midday bottle and was sitting in her new little chair-thingy...
and I started to notice that after about five minutes, she was dozing off. You know, that head-drops-and-jerks-back-up kind of dozing off we all do. Actually, Kristi will tell you that Elena and I now share something in common: we both fall alseep watching the TV.
Last evening, we took Elena along for dinner at a nearby restaurant. After our drinks came, we noticed Elena was staring intently just over my shoulder. What's she looking at, we wondered.
It was a plasma TV hanging on the wall.
