Thursday, February 13, 2014

Jonah on Extreme Temperatures

Mommy doesn't always check the temperature of meals like a proper michelin chef should.  Food should be served warm at most, but tepid is perfectly acceptable.  When I show her a spoonful that is on the verge of sublimating before my eyes, she gives it a little blow.  (Daddy says the air flow helps speed the heat transfer.)  Well, her lungs are no match for such extreme temperatures, and she stops after a paltry breath.  I finally gave up holding out my spoon for intervention and learned to blow on my own food.  And I can keep it up until the morsel reaches its ideal room temperature.  But I still alert the chef, "hot hot hot!" so she can think about what she's done.

This evening the bath plunged to an arctic freeze a mere minutes into my hour-long nightly ritual.  Mommy turned on the tap to warm it up, but the stream was scalding hot!  Playing under the cascade meant risk of fourth degree burns.  Well, I knew how to fix this!  I blew on the running water under it cooled down.