MOSAIC MOMENTS

We met Tara Marie and her beautiful daughter Emma Sage just a few months ago in this previous blog. Tara Marie has a great gift in capturing life through pictures and her beautiful Emma Sage just enhances those pictures with her infectious smile and her curiosity for life.

Emma Sage has mosaic Down syndrome, but instead of feeling as though this has slowed their family down, they embrace her with their love and it shows! Today’s story is highlighted with the beautiful pictures that Tara Marie has captured. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have!

Our daughter, Emma Sage is now seven years old and is an amazing little girl.

Emma Sage has a way of touching people’s lives, and that I believe is one of her greatest gifts.She began modeling at the age of two, and absolutely adores the whole process, from traveling into New York City to the sets and shoot and then when she sees herself in print.

Here are a few of her jobs:

Emma Sage in Toys R Us Catalog

Emma Sage in Toys R Us store display

We hope she has the opportunity to continue this in the future, as it really is one of her favorite things to do [not to mention her college fund is happy!!!]

She tells me that she wants to be an actress….when I ask her what part she wants to play, she tells me either London Tipton or Lily on Hannah Montana. lol! She is a funny little girl.

Emma Sage has always participated in mainstream activities. We are actually an uncommon family, as we opted out of Early Intervention and provided for Emma Sage’s development on our own, through home and community based activities.

She began dance class at the age of three and has danced every year since. Currently she is taking a Jazz & Hip Hop class and she is loving it. Ballet was beginning to get a bit too disciplined and boring for her Jazz & Hip Hop are really her style..and boy can this girl dance!!!!

Emma Sage loves to Dance…..

She began riding horses at four, and has been taking lessons since. She rides at a stable up the lane from us and just rides [not hippotherapy] and right now is in a group lesson with four other girls. She rides  independently in the ring and on the trail. Her riding teacher is a phenomenal woman who treats Emma Sage just like any of the other riders. Her lessons are wonderful in so many ways. She is fully responsible for getting her horse ready before the lesson and putting everything way
after the lesson. Grooming her horse is actually Emma Sage’s favorite part of the whole lesson [well, she does love to ride too].

Emma Sage loves sports and has participated in swimming, baseball, floor hockey, gymnastics, field hockey and the Special Olympics so far..and I believe that this will be a love of her life as we her family are also into sports and activities:

Emma Sage loves animals…..all kinds!

Emma Sage was home schooled up until this year. She is now a big First Grader at Valley View School and she loves school. She is a social butterfly and is blossoming. Her teachers adore her and are thrilled that she is in their class [makes all the difference in the world]

The only down side of being is school is that she can’t work on her school work in her P.J.’s.

This child of ours has friends lots and lots of friends.

She has a family who adores her…..

Emma Sage loves music, she always has and in my heart, I hope she always will. She takes keyboarding lessons and violin lessons…she loves her karaoke machine and thinks she is Hannah Montana [no, seriously she does!]

She has a boy friend who proposed to her this summer at the NDSC convention in Boston.

She is my magical child, she takes my breathe away, she makes my heart leap for joy and pause in reflection, she challenges my mind and my perception of life.

She is a gift, and I treasure her dearly!

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