go Leah go!

Kyle started walking just before his first birthday.  Right on track, that's when a lot of babies start to take those first steps.  Jillian had to one-up her big brother and started taking those tentative first steps at the age of 9.5 months.  Well, along comes Leah and she isn't one to be outdone.  So at exactly 9 months old she was taking her first steps.  She had been cruising along the furniture at that point for quite a while, and standing all by herself balancing quite well so I knew it was close.  I was even lucky enough to be able to catch those first steps on video

Once she started she didn't stop.  Here is Leah less than 1 month later, just a few days before turning 10 months old.  By this point she was a confident walker and walking was her main mode of getting around.  As you can see, Leah did not have much hair.  And Leah was a little on the small side for her age, around the 25th percentile for height at this age.  Combine that with her early walking and I would get plenty of staring and comments from people when out shopping while she was walking along beside me without assistance.

Now at age 2 Leah loves to run, run, run!  Here's my little speed demon in all her running glory...