Amazing Ada Butterfield has been inspired by Captain Sir Tom Moore to raise money for the charity that saved her life.
While some parents struggle to keep their kids active in lockdown, Emma and Michael face the opposite problem with their dynamic daughter, aged five.
Ada, who had surgery for a liver condition as a baby, aims to run 20 miles by March to raise £10,000 and 229 kids have joined her mission.
Emma, 40, said: “The moment she’s up, she has her trainers and running clothes on, raring to get out and wave at friends as she passes their homes.
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“She doesn’t believe there’s anything she can’t do.
"Ada saw Captain Tom in the first lockdown and said, ‘If he can do it, why can’t I?’”
Ada wanted to watch Emma run the London Marathon in April but when it was postponed she suggested a 2.6-mile family run in their village of Allerton Bywater, near Leeds.
Cheering locals lined the route and the family raised more than £4,000.
Emma said: “Now, to see Ada bounding through the snow each morning is heart-melting.
"She constantly tugs on my arm asking when she can go for her run.”
She is raising funds for Children’s Liver Disease Foundation, which told Emma she should worry when Ada was jaundiced at five weeks.
A CLDF rep was with the family in May 2015 when an op treated Ada’s biliary atresia – a rare disease of the bile ducts which affects only infants.
Ada is on medication for life and may one day need a transplant.
So far she and her supporters have raised nearly £6,000.
- For more info visit childliverdisease.org and Ada's JustGiving page.