A Pasco County family received a special honor. A young boy battling cancer got his deputy badge just like his dad.

Isaiah Lucas looks like any other cute 3-year-old kid, but over the past six months his life dramatically changed, as he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer.

“He had it on his bones, he had it in his lungs, he had it on his skull, his collar bone,” said his father, Andrew.

To put it simply, the Lucas’ lives were turned upside down.

“Everything that you’ve known, even down to your marriage, is not what it was,” his mother, Sera, said.

It hasn’t stopped them from seeking normalcy.

“I want to be like daddy,” said Isaiah.

Andrew Lucas works in Child Protective Investigations for the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office and his sons want to be just like him. On Friday both sons became deputized.

After receiving the badges the two were ready to act like it and chased after a deputy sheriff disguised as a perpetrator.

“You got the bad guy after I did,” said Isaiah to his brother Josiah.

It was a good day for Isaiah but the saying "Every day is a new day" rings crystal clear to the Lucas family.

“His numbers last week were very low but Wednesday they were very high which really made today a possibility for him,” Andrew Lucas said.

Isaiah is apparently good at fighting crime and fighting cancer. As of last week, the months of chemo and surgeries have led him to being cancer-free for now.

“Just embracing the day every day you know and making the most of the time we have together,” said Andrew Lucas.

Times like these are priceless moments the Lucas family will never forget.

“It meant a lot to me just cause it’s me and him together and it’s family,” said Isaiah’s brother, Josiah.