Karen and Michael Babcock, of Lower Southampton Township, are giving back after an unimaginable tragedy changed their family forever, writes Madeleine Wright for CBS News Philadelphia.

The pair lost their two-year-old son, Dax, in April when a gust of wind landed a 30-foot-long tree branch down on top of him in their yard, right in front of his mother and his six-year-old brother.

“We’re living our worst nightmare,” said his mother.

The family has received enormous support from their friends, neighbors, and complete strangers. More than $45,000 has been raised to help the family.

“Thankful is not a big enough word to explain it,” said the boy’s father. “We’ll prove it over the coming decade how much it means to us.”

The couple will use the donations to start the Dax Pact Foundation. The foundation will provide year-round tuition at Just Children, Dax’s daycare center in Feasterville, for a student. The foundation will also provide free summer camp for a child at Dax’s summer camp in Langhorne, Breezy Point, and donate playground equipment to parks.

“In order to make Dax outlive us, this is what we have to do,” said Karen Babcock.

Read more about the family in CBS News Philadelphia.

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