Levi Watching

Here's a little video of one of John's favorite activities. Literally dozens of times and he never gets bored of it... even if we do...

John watching Levi from Daniel Tuutau on Vimeo.

The day we've all been waiting for...

The day has finally come......

John officially broke through his first tooth....
...or should I say first 2 teeth!!!

Yes oh yes my friends after 14 and a half months of no teeth I finally felt a tooth at the bottom coming in. After getting majorly excited and trying to snap pictures of it with my camera phone I felt inside his mouth again and realized that there was one on the top as well. Yes you heard right...One on the bottom and one on the top broke through on the same day. I felt next to the bottom tooth and realized the one right next to it is really close to coming in as well. I tried to take a picture really close to his face to see if I could capture his pearly whites but the flash kind of took over and he looks really washed out. No matter! I'm sure I'll be taking plenty big toothy grin pictures soon enough. :)


The funny thing is I check his mouth all the time and he hasn't acted any different lately than usual. No fevers, no major drool, not even any major grumpy episodes. He puts everything in his mouth but that's normal so I was pleasantly surprised when I felt the teeth this evening after a full day of running around playing with all his toys happy as all get out!!! Man I love my kid :) Maybe this whole teething thing won't be so bad.....**knock on wood**

Christmas Pictures

Yesterday we went and had John's Christmas pictures taken. I thought they turned out great. I seriously love watching the progression of John's attitude each time we get these pictures done. He starts out so happy and by the end...well you'll see for yourself!!!

"Ho Ho Ho get me out of this dumb chimney!!"

Old Fashioned Christmas

Daniel is part of a caroling group that sings at different events for the holidays (mostly Christmas parties). This year the group was asked to sing at some different malls in the area for a couple of hours each Saturday until Christmas to help get people in the mood. They had a lot of fun even though it was a bit chilly outside.


The other girl was in New York for Thanksgiving so they were just a trio but they still did great.

Love the costumes!

Not the best of quality I know but here's a sample of how they were.

Thanksgiving

This year we had such a fun thanksgiving. Our friends from our ward came over and we had ourselves a feast!....


I think my camera lens might have been dirty when I took all of these pictures because they look a little fuzzy-ish to me but oh well. You get the idea! Here is a picture of the precooked turkey in our marvelous Roaster Oven that we got on sale at Kmart in the summer (that's one of the great things about having your husband work there. He knows when all the good deals come around :) )


Our wonderful chopped up turkey...



And here is a picture of the glorious food table...
After we all played an intense game of Harry Potter Scene It our friends went home and we caught up on all of our missed episodes of Heroes. It was a pretty good day :)

Dance Dance!!

John is very much into "Dance Dance"-ing right now. It started about a month ago when we were watching a movie and he all of the sudden started bouncing up and down and moving his hands back and forth to the music. We had never seen him do this before and tried again and again to get it on film yet failed miserably in our attempt. On Sunday during Primary I was up in the front teaching the kids the song "Christmas Bells" and John followed me up to the front and started showing off his dance moves. At first I didn't know he was up there with me and had no idea why everyone was laughing their heads off and not singing at all. My little performer of a child stayed up there for a few more rounds bedazzling the crowd and no, I did not get it on film. Sad but true.

My sister has been bugging me for a while to take video of him dance dancing but every time I try he somehow knows a camera is on him and won't do it. I snagged this little clip last night of him semi doing what he usually does but this is really NOTHING compared to what he does every day off camera. If you can hear him he's saying "Dance Dance" but it comes out sounding like "Das Das"!

New Moon

A couple of friends and I went to New Moon last Saturday night. It was SOOOOO much fun. We didn't make it for the 8:15 showing so we were the first one's in line with our hot chocolates for the 10:00 showing. By the time we were let in the line behind us was amazingly long. This dark picture just doesn't do it justice because there were A LOT of people waiting and other people scattered all over waiting to get in as well.


Being in the theater with a bunch of screaming girls ...and guys... was actually a lot more fun then I thought it would be. There was an energy that made the movie that much more exciting. I LOVED IT!!!

...and I LOVED this

...and I LLLLOOOOOOOVVVVVVEEEEEDDDD this!!!

...and now I'm WAY excited for this!!!