Are you smarter than a 6-week-old?

So one thing that all this breastfeeding creates is a lot of time sitting down with nothing particular happening except the feeding itself. Some of our mother friends had told us that TV on DVD will be our friend - that if we're TV watchers in the first place, breastfeeding ends up being a bit of an enabler. Well, until we get creative enough to do other things with our feeding time, we have, sadly, gotten addicted to some pretty trashy TV. This Digital Video Recorder thing doesn't really help matters - now we can give piles of shows test runs without juggling VHS tapes.

The shows that Holly first latched on to were reruns of Without a Trace on Bravo and What Not to Wear on TLC. If you thought this was the trash to which I referred, oh just you wait. With the new TV season upon us, we've stuck by ER and Prison Break, Survivor and Friday Night Lights. Holly continues to watch Brothers and Sisters, Grey's Anatomy and Ugly Betty on her own and has picked up Big Shots and Dirty Sexy Money. But the real guilty pleasure of all has been Beauty and the Geek (reruns daily on BBCK). Despite the fact that all seasons (including the UK offshoot) heavily recycle challenges and trivia questions, there are some awesome moments. The best of which may have been in a season 1 rerun when one of the Beauties was asked which star was closest to the Earth. In any other episode, such a question would have been aired only because the Beauty would blow it and make herself look stupid. Well, in this case, she said "the sun" and was right. It was the beauty next to me on the couch who said "The sun's a star?".

Oh man. It's almost as bad as an English grad not knowing their parts of speech. Max, you will learn a LOT from your mother. Just remember, when it comes to the science questions, come and ask me, OK?