INDIANAPOLIS (WXIN) - A young girl with rare form of cancer has a wish granted to show up at preschool for her first time.
Ava Parker, 2, had seen bigger kids loading on to school buses and only wanted to join them. She was told she would have to wait until she got a little bit bigger.
Her mother, Kacy Parker, told Fox59 News, "So, she comes to me the next day and says "Mommy, am I big enough and I said, no not yet and she said Ok."
On December 10, 2012, her life changed dramatically. What started out as a black eye and grouchiness, turned into a parent's worst nightmare. Ava was diagnosed with a malignant tumor known as a Rhabdoid Tumor. This is what makes her day at preschool so remarkable.
Her parents reached out to Decatur Township to see if they would enroll her for just one day. Ava's family wanted to make sure she didn't miss out on just being another kid in the class.
The family says that words aren't enough to explain what it meant to Ava to have this experience.
"My heart is really going to explode with joy. It's beyond words could even describe how happy we are to see her," said her mother.
She also left a valuable lesson for her fellow Hoosiers seeing this story.
"Just don't take you children for granted," she said, "cause anything can happen."
