Jamie and Liam Chew's Blog: 2009-09-26

2009-09-26 22:58 (Kristen) John tells me that Jamie has been telling him all about Terry Fox, who (for those of you not Canadian) was a young man who ran the Marathon of Hope back in 1980/1. Fox had lost one leg to cancer as a young man, and decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research afterwards. He only made it as far as Thunder Bay before falling ill from a recurrence of his cancer, and died in 1981 at the age of 22. The Terry Fox Run, held every year, is the world's largest one-day fundraiser for cancer research. The story has made a large impression on Jamie, and he's been asking me questions about cancer ever since. He knows that John's mother had cancer, so we've been talking about what we know, what causes it, and other things, usually at breakfast. Liam continues to be obsessed with his DS, and it's getting hard to get him to do anything else once he starts. John did take him to the St. Lawrence Market today, and to a curriculum meeting at Nisshu Gakkuin, and notes that the DS ensured that Liam sat quietly through the entire meeting. So, not entirely a socially useless device... I had some people over for a Pampered Chef party, run by Michelle Hunt (Charlie's mother), and Simon came with his mom. Liam was delighted to see Simon when he came home, and we'll have to make arrangements for them to see each other again, as they do very much like each other. It was a very quick, easy dinner tonight, and a very mellow evening before a little Rock Band and bedtime.