Happy Birthday Terra!

by Candi Evans

Wow!!!  I can't believe Terra is turning 5!!!  She is sooo excited about her birthday!  We have been on the countdown ever since  Abbie's birthday in January!!!  

Terra is soo excited to finally be able to go to Kindergarten next year.  She can't wait to ride Miss Tammy's bus with the other kids in the mornings!  She has been a peer-model up to Perkins Elementary in Moapa this year, so she goes to school Mon-Thurs in the afternoons.  One of the afternoon teachers picks her and our neighbor, Ella, who is Terra's best friend, up and brings them home every day.  She absolutely loves school and can't wait to go every day.  

It has been really good for her being in this class because she has been exposed to kids with all kinds of different disabilities.  Some are autistic, some have learning, speech or behavioral disabilities and then there are a couple of kids in wheelchairs with severe disabilities.  She comes home telling us all kinds of interesting stories and she thinks of all of them just as another kid to go to school with.

She even got to do a May Day dance this year up to Perkins!  She was so excited to do her "Ride That Pony" dance.  We got her all dressed up in boots, skirt and hat!  She did look pretty dang cute!

Terra moved herself up to a "big" bike a couple of months ago because she said she had been riding that little one without training wheels since way before last summer!!  She even thinks she's pretty tricky riding with only one hand!

She loves her long hair and will come to me and say, "Mom, my hair is so long and beautiful, huh?"  I wonder where she's heard that one before? (Hhmmm, Daddy, maybe!)

Terra loves to do anything the older girls are doing and gets very mad if they don't let her.  She loves coloring and drawing pictures, singing, playing games and dress-up, putting on make-up, painting fingers and toes, playing outside and catching ladybugs.

For her Birthday cake, she wanted  a homemade cheesecake with berry sauce! Yummmm!!! She is a fun-loving little girl to have a round and is always so happy. She loves to make people laugh and gives the best loves!!  She is our sweet little Dolly!