All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth!

On our second week of Christmas, Kiana got ANOTHER tooth! Aunt Lauren discovered it on Saturday: pretty amazing!


This week was tiring, what with two teeth cutting through for Kiana, both kids having a hard time switching over with jet lag, and Daddy being gone at his conference Sunday night through Friday (and so both kids waking each other and me up in the middle of the night!). Despite that, it still was wonderful to hang out with Uncle Chris and Aunt Lauren, Aunt Frances, and Lauren's family (parents Jim and Cinda, brother Jonathan and sister-in-law Ashley).


On Monday, we all drove to San Francisco to visit a trampoline park called The House of Air, which had connected trampolines the size of Olympic swimming pools (floor and wall), which was one of Nana (Grandma Ross's) Christmas presents - we had a blast! Aidan played in a kid "jump house" and loved it, while Chris, Frances and I relived in large scale the days of having a trampoline in our back yard as kids! Afterward, we met Daddy at the food court at Westfield Food Emporium, which was delicious. The kids passed out on the ride home, which made the whole evening even better!


Tuesday, Chris & Lauren gave us a tour of their C17 airplane! Aidan and Kiana both got to ride in the cockpit and walk through the giant interior. It was pretty amazing, and was definitely the highlight of the week!


Aunt Frances left for Hawaii on Wednesday, Jonathan and Ashley left on Thursday, and Daddy came home on Friday. Even though it was sad to say goodbye, I was so happy that we overlapped with Frances at all! I miss her already. (XOX) We were all thrilled to have Daddy back on Friday, and things at night for me have gotten much more manageable (at least the kids aren't waking *each other* any more, and I can focus on Kiana while Alex deals with Aidan!) After Christmas church with Chris & Lauren and Jim & Cinda on Sunday , we all said goodbye and drove to Fairfield to start our third week of Christmas with the Ruane side of the family - starting first with Gabe/Karen/Miya/Siena. It's going to be fun to see all the cousins together!