Life in a Cast: Day 2 - Bench Potato

Telling your Grandma about our afternoon at the playground, Rai, I mentioned that you had quite the appetite and ate one of the biggest lunches that I've seen you eat in quite some time. She verified this by telling me that she loves taking you to the playground at lunch for the very same reason; there is guarantee that you'll eat a big meal.
That's interesting because you often spend a lot of your time at the playground doing nothing more than sitting and observing other kids at play. You love to watch bigger kids do their thing. Does this mean that watching others exercise, use up their energy, actually makes you hungrier? Odd. It's like you're burning calories by association, just through simple act of observing the burning of calories taking place. Maybe this is the same reason that those who love to watch their Sunday afternoon or Monday night sports eat so many snacks while they do so. Can't help but get hungry seeing all those football players running around, right?
And this is exactly what your Grandma worried about. What if this snacking while watching other kids play develops into more typical couch potato behavior in the future. Well, it's a good thing that we don't have a t.v., then. You're normally quite active too, it's just these next few weeks with your cast that may keep you sidelined at the playground, watching others run around. For this short time and this short time only, you can be a bench potato.