A life lived well

Today we said our earthly goodbye to an amazing 5 year old-who lived well beyond his years. Coleman Scott Larson, passed away Monday evening -Jan 5th 2009 at 10:45pm from MEDULLOBLASTOMA, a tumor in his brain. He was diagnosed Sept 21st, 2005-just 5 days before Simeon was.
Both Coleman and Simeon were/are treated at the University of Iowa Childrens Hospital. We met Coleman and his twin brother Caden for the 1st time just over a year after they were diagnosed. We were both impatient and ran into each other on the floor. We started talking, and I found out that she had been coming to meet us a few weeks earlier (after seeing us on the Dance Marathon recruitment video), but they found out that Coleman had relapsed and they went home to regroup.
Coleman and Caden are the funniest kids ever. They have such fun personalities that complemented each other perfectly. The 2 of them have touched so many lives for good.

I went to Coleman's celebration of Life with Jan & Becky Anderson (a fellow leukemia friend). We knew we needed to be there, and we knew we needed the support each other could give.
At the funeral we got to see Coleman's sweet face all around us. They had so many wonderful pictures and pieces of artwork he had created. They showed a wonderful video of Coleman, where he sang "Jesus Loves me". His gold and black crocs were with his pictures, they were so small-yet his spirit that filled those shoes was so BIG!

We released over 1,800 green & yellow (John Deer Tractor colors)balloons -one for each day of Coleman's life! It was amazing to see all those balloons. I happened to be able to see the balloons filling the rooms and then to help bring them out to be released-what an honor that was!

A Coleman Quote was tied onto each and every balloon!


After the balloon release we had a lunch. Peggy, Scott and Caden told us that this was Coleman's "End of chemo party" since he had wanted so badly to have one, but was not able to while he was here on earth.




Coleman and his family have become a very important part of our lives. It was hard to say goodbye to him this week. So many people prayed for a miracle on Coleman's behalf and I think he got his miracle the moment he saw Jesus and was welcomed into His arms.

Colemans carepage info is: www.carepages. com/colemanscott