Just for fun, here's another post about how our little Leah Ru (as we like to call her) is doing.

Now that she is one year old, she is learning and doing so much more every day. It is amazing to watch her develop so quickly.

At her one-year doctor appointment she was 28 7/8 inches tall and only weighed 16 lbs 11 oz. She dropped below the 5th percentile in weight, but the doctor wasn't concerned at all because it is normal for their weight to drop when they start walking around a lot. Which is definitely what Leah does. She is a girl on the go! She's even starting to climb up on anything she can, the little monkey.

She's getting pretty good with her hands and likes to get them on just about anything she can. She loves to pull things out of bags and boxes and she even sometimes likes to put things in other things (like putting little toys in a bag or another toy). She has figured out how to open Ziploc bags, the little smarty pants! And she has also figured out that her finger fits perfectly inside her nose! She's so little that I have a hard time not laughing when she does it, but yes it is a habit that we are trying to curb already.
Here she is sporting her shades she got for Christmas. She loves to go outside and I've been taking her for walks in her stroller lately. She's actually pretty good at keeping her sunglasses on while we are on our walks.
Leah only has four teeth--two on the bottom and two on the top. The bottom two are both in the middle, but the top ones are the left middle one and the one left of that. Here she is eating Pad Thai noodles at the restaurant we went to for our anniversary. This girl loves to eat, especially if she can eat it herself with her fingers. I have to watch her though. If she's eating something she really likes (like macaroni and cheese) she gets it into her mouth about as fast as I can get it on her tray. I think she gets that from her dad!
Here she is playing on Parker's swing. Parker is a cute little boy in our ward who's about two weeks younger than Leah. They play pretty good together.
Her hair is getting pretty long. One day I put a bunch of sunscreen in it so she wouldn't get sunburned at a rugby game we went to. When we got home, I combed her hair and the sunscreen was so thick I could get her hair to do just about anything...
Here it is laying down nicely...so cute!Here's Hannah and Leah playing together when Hannah was here visiting with her mommy (my friend, Lesley) at the end of April.Here she is at a BYU baseball game. Ross went to a few games this season, but because it was such a cold spring, Leah and I only made it to about half a game. At this particular game, there weren't many people there and we happened to be sitting by a camera man. During the game, Ross's uncle (who was watching the game at home) texted us to tell us Leah was on TV a few times.
Here she is wearing her tennis shoes out and about for the first time. It has taken her a while to get used to walking in shoes. For a while there they were like her baby kryptonite, she couldn't even stand up in them.
Here she is playing at a park near our house. She wasn't sure if she liked the slide or not.
She loves watching and having other kids around. She is definitely a people watcher. One afternoon, her cousin, William came over for a while. He is always so sweet with Leah.Here she is swinging with Baby J at Great Grandma Tucker's house.
A couple other fun things about Leah...there's a picture of the Christus hanging right above her high chair. After she eats, she wants to be held up to see the picture closer and she'll always try to touch His face and it sounds like she is trying to say "Jesus." I love it!

She likes Elmo and also likes to watch Sesame Street. Fortunately it is one of the little-kid shows that I like too (but Ross isn't as excited about watching with her).

She LOVES to play with cell phones. She also likes to play with remote controls. She's a good little button pusher! Here she is standing on her very tip toes trying to reach the remote controls on the shelf.
She also likes to read books. She has a lot of books (as you can see from the above picture). She often bring us one of her books and then wants to climb on our lap so we'll read the book to her. Right now, her favorite books are the ones with animals in them. She loves animals, especially dogs and cats. When we are outside and she sees them, she goes nuts. A couple days ago, she even walked barefoot across the grass (which she normally hates) to try to get to a dog.

She went to her first dance recital last week. My sisters, cousin, and a few of Lesley's nieces were performing. Overall she did pretty good and even danced a little bit. She likes music. When we're at church, she often starts waving her hand up and down during the hymns like the chorister does. Maybe she'll serve as a chorister when she grows up like her Grandpa and Grandma Leslie! Here she is with her aunt MoMo (my sister, Melyssa) after she performed.
Favorite aunt MoMo again with both baby girls.

So that's life with the Leslie's lately. As you can tell, there is rarely a dull moment around here with Leah except when she's asleep (which she is finally a little bit better at, by the way!).