Hot time, summer in the city.

Our air conditioning broke!

Don't worry, we've already had it fixed. A low voltage transformer blew - I have no idea what that is, but I'm relieved to find out it only costs $100 to replace. But it was a steamy two days in the Kwon household until the repairmen came. Nanny moved Jonathan and Cara down into the basement on the first day, and they didn't do too badly. When Chris came home, he decided the whole Kwon family would be sleeping in the basement, since it was 85 degrees upstairs. Jonathan did pretty well in the playpen for the first half of the night, but he eventually realized Mom and Dad were sharing a room with him. Then he insisted on coming into bed with us. After a few hours I woke up to the baby thrashing around and wailing. Chris finally figured out that he was too hot. So at three in the morning, he had to strip Jonathan down to his diaper and hold him in front of the fan for about ten minutes. Nice daddy.

Jonathan's hated being too hot since he was only a few days old. Chris came back to our hospital room after getting some dinner to find me frantic and Jonathan screaming. I had been so busy trying to calm him that I hadn't noticed it was 80-plus degrees in the room. So Chris was my hero for opening a window and calming the baby within minutes.

After a full 24 hours without air conditioning, even the basement was a little warm. We told Nanny about Jonathan's inflatable tub, and that afternoon, she plopped both kids in the water. Cara went in first, and seemed a little tentative, but when Jonathan joined her, and showed her how to chew on the tub toys, she decided it was all good clean fun. And just like his daddy, Jonathan's wet hair dried in a most impressive series of cowlicks.

We've taught Jonathan how to clap! He caught on very quickly to this new noisemaking concept. Last night he was "dancing" to his latest toy, a walker/rider on wheels that plays music when you roll it. When the music stopped, his butt and head stopped wiggling, and he looked over at us. We gave him a big round of applause, and he broke into that wonderful Jonathan grin and started clapping right along with us.