Emilie Kiser

We love him with every fiber of our being.

That's the only possible person that's going to understand the love and the miss and the hurt and the heartbreak and the void of losing your child.

And so naturally...

we have the most deep, profound, emotional conversations with each other because it's usually us coming together about how much we miss him or a memory that made us think of him that day or just all the conflicting emotions of what happened and what we've been through and the feelings that we feel.

I would hope and I think I'm the same way for him, is we're really the only two people that we feel like we can truly be open and vulnerable with on that level every day.

Yeah, I love to talk about him.

It obviously makes me sad.

But he truly was and is such a light.

And although so many people didn't get the literal honor of meeting him, anyone he came across in his life, I mean, we still have his teachers reach out to us and they're like, we love him so much.

And this reminded us of him today.

And yeah, it's really helpful.

I, from the beginning, Brady and I told our families, like, I never want a world where

And I never want Teddy to grow up in a world where this is an avoided conversation.

Because even though it's a hard conversation and it leads to a bigger conversation, I'm sure Teddy is going to have so many questions as he gets older.

I never want a world where people don't talk about him.

And I feel the same way for sometimes negativity talked about us.

surrounding him of if you're talking about him and you're spreading awareness really that's all that matters to me I just don't want him to ever be forgotten and he won't be and having daily conversations in our house I've added so many photos around our house of him because I just want his face to be everywhere and I don't want it to ever be something that Teddy or anybody has ever

questioning what he looks like or who he is we've really made an effort that he's constantly brought up my friends know it too if i see something that reminds me of him i'm always like oh my gosh trick would have loved that or this is what he would be saying because he really just was such a funny kid and so loving and just the best and i know everyone says that about their kid but he was just the best

That's a good question.

I think one of the most hurtful and confusing things people can say is anything in the realm.