Electronic Babysitter

About a year ago, we appeared in a segment on a Sunday morning show called Business Weekend. It was all about how people are moving due to energy costs. We were taped in our Queens apartment talking about how we were paying for oil in Brooklyn and got out to save money for the baby's arrival. Partly true, but that's TV. Anyway, we had recorded this show on our DVR (aka low rent TiVO). RCN Cable blows, by the way. It was going to be erased (some "software upgrade from RCN) so we put it on one last time. Something unexpected happened. Typically, Alina doesn't really pay attention to the TV. She was sitting on the carpet, between Katrina and the TV, playing with a toy. When Katrina's piece came up on the show, Alina's head popped up and she looked at her mother's glowing face talking on the screen. Her mouth dropped a little, then she turned to look at Mommy on the chair, then back the TV, and started laughing. We kept replaying it and she kept cracking up when Katrina's face appeared. Maybe when we go away for the weekend and leave her with a grandparent/auntie we can make movies of ourselves talking to the camera, reading stories. Electronic parenting! Baby Einstein be damned! I hear some daycares have webcams so you can watch your kid's toys get stolen by bullies while at work. This could be like an inside out version of that.