look up pathetic in Websters...

and you would find this picture.

She was terrified of the photographer. The teacher gave me a bit of warning when I picked her up that day from school saying "well, we did get her to stop crying long enough to get one picture". Look at those puppy dogs eyes....that awful green background! Luckily I have a sense of humor and I think it's actually pretty funny. So Christmas gifts will go as planned....everyone will get an unforgettable school picture of Molly, age 3.

update

So check out the skirt I worked on last night.

I found a use for the yo-yo's I made last month....little rosettes around the bottom hemline of the skirt :)

A close-up shot of the yo-yo rosette. It's made from the same print that is on the skirt.

As soon as I have a cooperative model and a camera with a fully charged battery then I'll post some much better pictures. Now back to the sewing machine!

Got the creative bug again....

Just call me creativeleigh...ha ha ha! again, for those of you who still think my name is pronounced "Leah" then you probably will not get this joke. Moving along....

So I've been wanting to attempt making a skirt for Molly out of some of these beautiful old fabric samples from my mom's studio. Most of these fabrics have been discontinued so there is no reason to keep these big memos. But I cannot bear to throw away these fabrics so I just *had* to find a use for them and voila....the skirt was born.

In my head I saw this blog post with beautiful photographs of the fabrics and a darling picture of Molly running outside in the sunshine with her skirt a-twirling, but it's 8:15pm...the camera battery is dead.....the sun is not out.....and Molly was not in a model mood. So here are pathetic pictures from my blackberry but they will have to do because I'm just so excited how this turned out!

I asked her to say cheese and she showed me the cheese she was eating.

I'm sure you are distracted by that adorable toddler belly. It is oh so tickle-able! The print is a Brunschwig & Fils fabric that back in 1998 retailed for $168/yd! See why I couldn't throw this stuff away.

pictures of the next skirt...coming as soon as my nimble fingers can sew it together!

78 degrees! in Oklahoma! in AUGUST PEOPLE!

The weekend flew by but it was jam packed with all sorts of activities. My ingredients for a perfect weekend: sushi, Waterford Bar, a few adult beverages, beautiful weather, more sushi, trip to the zoo, walk outside, fun birthday party. That pretty much sums up our weekend.

And what a beautiful one it was! Its really amazing how so many things can go right with the world when the weather is nice. The kids are happy because we get to play outside....mommy is happy because we get to play outside....work is happy because this type of weather is a landscape designers dream!

Weekend started off with a night out for me, Shawn, Laura and Perry. A yummy dinner at Saii followed by fun at our favorite neighborhood bar, The Waterford. My friend Laura even joined us and we discovered that the party where she met her husband was hosted by me and Shawn in 2000! Laura and I didn't even meet until 2006. I was even able to find her in some of the pictures from that party. Don't worry Laura....I won't be posting the one where you are hanging from the wagon wheel "Chandelier"!

After the much needed adult time we packed in as much outside fun time as we could this weekend with the kids...starting with the zoo on Saturday.

Look we found Nemo! And I thought I had eaten him the night before at Saii.

After a nice, relaxing nap for me and Molly...we played outside with sidewalk chalk.

Jack brought his microscope. Because you never know when you might find something cool to look at.

Molly picked up a roly poly for Jack because he didn't want to touch it....and no, the roly poly would not fit under the microscope but not for lack of effort.

My Leftie

and My Rightie

Sunday we went to Ellie's 3rd birthday. It was a princess birthday party and the girls were in heaven!

Jack and Liam steered clear of all princess games and drew Star Wars pictures instead. The dads were very happy about this.

After the birthday party we met Nana at the mall in Norman. The kids were playing at the play place with Jack laying inside the doghouse and Molly hanging from the end of it and swinging her legs. Just as I said "Molly, be careful don't kick your brother in the...." I see a little white thing fly across the ground. Yep, Jack's tooth! He was so elated that he didn't even notice all the blood (and man, was there a lot of blood). He thanked his sister for kicking his tooth out while she simply replied "You're more than welcome Jack".

Jack lost his first tooth before it was even loose by using his teeth to pry open his Transformer toy. That was on President's Day. His second tooth was pulled by Dad after a couple hours of negotiations. That was on Cinco de Mayo. So I really thought this third tooth would hold out until Labor Day to continue the holiday tradition, but nope....there were other grand plans for this tooth. Jack says that he lost his third tooth on "My sister kicked me in the face DAY".

We wanted to walk on the golf course but those damn golfers decided it was a good day for for golf so we scrapped that idea and went for a walk at Waterford with GiGi, Pops and Babe the Dog. A perfect ending to a perfect weekend. And did I mention I had sushi (the Eating Nemo roll) Friday and Sunday night! YUM!

Now if I could just get out of this office and enjoy this 75 degree day all would be right with the world.