A Tea for you  / Britney Hynds (Friend)

Hi Belle,

We are having an afternoon tea at school for you on Thursday.
We are going to remember you and have a look at how your little garden is growing.

Mummy told me that your mummy is coming to, it will be great to see her again. All of your friends miss you so much. And the teachers all do too. 

I wish you could be back with us again, but you will always be with me in my heart.

Love always Britney. xxxx

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A Life is so precious  / Sarah Rose
Dear Isabelle's family and friends,
                                                         I do not know what to say- but I can only imagine my heart goes out to you and please know what you are doing for safety standards is one of the most inspiring and I am sure challenging journies but so very important. I thank you like many parents across the country do and will hopefully in the future. 

My little girl has just turned 4 and we have her still in her babyseat- but I have been looking to put her into a maxi rider with the full harness- and the first thing I am going to do next time I speak to my mother is tell her we must change the normal booster in her car- 

( she weighs only 15kgs and i have never felt this booster offeredher any protection- even if it is only for emergencies)

I would like to share my story, i was hit by a car at 80kms on the highway last july with my 10 week old baby in the back . There was nothing I could do the car just went from my control and milliseconds later we were in  tree. After weeks in the ICU, months in hospital I have surprised everyone with my recovery- ( no one knew if I would survive) 

But my 10week old baby was fine- ( I remember the pain of not knowing he was safe)a couple of scratches from glass but he was unhurt- he was correctly fitted in a babylove carseat reversed for newborn and I have no doubt this saved his life.
I heard many stories in the hospital about babies dying in capsules and me personally I would like to find out more, from what the nurses said these capsules shouldn't be on the market anymore- the reversible carseats save so many babies lives.

I would also advocate educating everyone in relation to carseats that they never buy second hand - our baby's seat was only 10wks old but it looks brand new but the ammount of stress that seat has had you just cannot see any signs of wear- only the strap was cut by the firecrew. I have been too scared to take it to the dump as I could not stand the thought of someone taking it home for their baby.

I wish you all the best and my deepest sympathies, keep strong you are all an inspiration and I would like to help advocate,educate in anyway that may help.

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Kaalia's Dad  / Lance Willett
Legacy of Love.lol.lol.lol.lol.lol.Love our Lord.lol.lol.lol.lol.lol.lol.


If Rose are red,
and violets are blue
Then God is Love,
and I love you.

If I cry for you tonight,
Please come close and hold me tight.
For I miss you more today,
than I have since yesterday.

As time goes by I miss you more,
And pray to God that time will sore.
So once again I'll hold your hand,
And walk with you on shores of sand.

Come and take my heart tonight,
walk with me and show me sights.
Then let me rest with tears of love,
that you gave me from above.

For Heavens plans are hard to see,
Unless your vision is sin free.
with love from God I will wait,
Till you meet me at the gate.

So go my angel kiss my cheek,
For I have seen but just a peek.
Of that Love that holds your wings,
and inspires the songs you sing.


lol.lol.lol.lol.lol.lol.
Love On Laughter    Dad. 

We are building an army of Angels. 
Isabelle ...Welcome to The Legacy of Love  lol.lol.lol.lol.lol.lol.....Angels Close

Sending some love  / Debbie Hering (Sarah's Mom )
Please accept my deepest condolence to your family.   I know the pain you feel because I lost my daughter, Sarah in a car accident over a decade ago.  Today, I still struggle with her death.

   I see it has been just one year since you lost that precious little one.   She was sure a beautiful little girl!  I will keep her in my thoughts and prayers.

You and Toni's family are doing wonderful things trying to help &  save other children.   Along with Kyle's family here in the US. 

God Bless,

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My Bella  / Inari Carrall (Best Friend )
To my Bella,

Once upon a time there lived a beautiful girl called Bella, she loved to say hello to her sisters Madeleine, Hannah and Laura. Bella had rose lips and I loved to run with her. My name is Inari and I am writing this story.

Bella liked to live in her castle and chase butterflies, she liked living with her king (Noel) he used to sing her a special song in her ear, he says that she makes his heart sing. Her queens name was Danielle and used to sing Annie in the coach with Bella, she used to dance through the grass with the ponies, she specially liked Chicka.

I hope my Nana and Bobo are looking after her and Isaiah up in the clouds. I sure did love you lots, I really hope you are looking after Isaiah good.

We said goodbye to the mountain and we gave you some flowers and a pony, I hope you saw them. I really like your name. I hope you are having a good time.

Lots of kisses and huggles
Narsy
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Butterflies / Britney Hynds (friend)

Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
I saw a butterfly
And I thought of you

I smiled and Giggled
And then I laughed
We were friends
Right from the start

I'll always remember
The fun that we had
The smile on your face 
And the touch of your hand

I chased the butterfly
But it flew away
Unlike your memory
Which will always stay


Thinking of you always
love Britney xxxx

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Remember / Tegan Smith (Your Teacher )
A year has passed now and as i sit here i remember so much about you. that first day you mummy and madaline came in to the staff room and you and maddy sat playing and mummy and i talked telling me all about you from fav foods to the rubber gloves.
I think of all the friend you made at hillview and how much they miss you. we have a special garden for you with fairies a wind mill floweres and passion fruit. i weed it when i can and the children all love to water it. Saying can i water bella's garden some not even knowing you. You and your family will alway be a special part of hillview for many years to come.
You mum and dad and madiline have done such a great job of putting our your story to say others.

I look at my baby every morning and tell him i love him.
I look at your photos every day at work and think what a joy you where and if only all the children where like you what a get day we would have.

i find it very hard to read articals about you or just to look at this site as it makes me very up set that i didn't get more time to teach you sooo much more.

We are making a special book about you at work too. to make sure we remember all the special things we have done to help the other children throuht the process of grief and loss

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Anniversary / Tracy Smith

1 year ago today, the world stopped for so many of us as you touched everyone you met. 

The Easter Hat parade this year was very hard for me, as that was where I was when your Daddy rang me on that day.

I miss the " I love you Tracy" & your welcome hugs each time I saw you.

My favourite memory is the last time you spent your Friday with me. We were at the Cross Country at the Botanical Gardens. It was a beautiful day. The sun shining, a gentle breeze. You, Calissa, Regan & I, sat under the tree's on a picnic blanket, with hot chips for lunch, waiting for Caitlin to run. After lunch, you sat in my lap, happy & just enjoying a cuddle. Calissa sat next to us, not jealous & happy to share me with her friend. I know now, how lucky I am to have this treasured memory of time with you. 

Every Friday you came to us Calissa & I looked forward to... we went to swimming lesson's & you were always an angel, enjoying watching me get in with Regan, then to watch Calissa & finally for you to have your turn. Sometimes you & Calissa would play ponies together or colour in while I was in the pool with Regan & other times you both cheered us on from the side... always happy together...

After swimming we would come home & you would often show Calissa how to play on the computer. You were so clever for a little girl. Sometimes even now, we come across a computer game & there is your name listed 3 or 4 times, typed in by you & we smile...thinking of you

Tomorrow, Mummy, Daddy & Maddy leave the mountain. We have lots of memories there & love it lots, but know that now they will be closer to all of us. Caitlin, Calissa & Regan love them all so much & I know this would make you very happy.

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In my thoughts today...  / Sheye Rosemeyer

Dear Danielle and family
I cried extra tears today thinking of our girls and how very difficult this time is for you - there are no words except to say that I understand and I will keep you in my thoughts every single day.

love, Sheye  

www.avarosemeyer.com

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For you today special Belle  / Britney Hynds (Friend)

I know today's that awful day
When God sent the angels to take you away.

I cry alot and I miss you more
I just don't know what he did it for..

I'm only 4 so I don't understand
Why God could send such a cruel demand

I know you're an angel flying high in the sky
It helps me a bit but it still makes me sigh.

I wish I could hold you and play with you too
And just talk in the sand pit and do what we do

I know you are watching me day by day
And hope that your happy with things that I say

I'm keeping your memory alive all the time
When I dance and I sing and I do my small rhymes

I love you and miss you and always will
Your sunshine bears sits on my window sill

I know when I grow you'll be watching me still
I take comfort in this and it gives me a chill

I will always remember my special friend 
My love for you will never end

So I say farewell but not goodbye
Cause special friendships never die

I'll keep you with me in my heart
So that you know we will never part

All my love to you Belle I love you and miss you all my kisses I give you xxxx Britney Hynds xxxxxxx Close

missing you  / Britney Hynds (friend)
That awful day is coming,
I mourn for you again
I can't believe that God would take
Such a special friend

You are gone but not forgotten
Your forever in my heart
You always were my best friend
Right from the very start

I never will forget you
I can't let myself do that
Because you were so special 
At least I owe you that

Your in my dreams at night 
And in my thoughts by day
You were such a special girl
so you will never go away

I know I'll always miss you
There's just nothing I can do
Except to hope you realise
Just how much that I love you.

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thank you so much  / Tracey Simmons
Dannielle,Noel and family
condolences on the loss of your precious angel bella
i was thinking about putting my 3 year old boy into a booster seat, but after reading your story i have decided that he is far safer in his 0 - 4 car seat and when he is too big for that then he will surely be going into a booter seat with a harness
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So sorry  / Lenny Dzombo (Stranger)

My names are Lenny Dzombo from Mombasa Kenya, im aged 26. Iam a sranger to the family of Isabelle but i would like to share with them the agony they are experiencing as a result of loosing thier beautiful daughter Isabelle. I can't express how i feel to loose a loved one espeacially at a very tender age like Isabelle. What did she achieved in life, what did she know about the essence of living that she had to be taken away from us? Innocent Isabelle, may your soul rest in eternal peace till we meet again. You are together with my dad who passed away 23 years ago.
May the almighty give us courage and strength to face this sorrowful word of today.

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ISABELLE / Tanya
Danielle I'm so sorry for the loss of your beautiful angel. I read Belle's story & lit a candle for her & sat at my computer & cried, know that your family are in my thoughts & prayers, Danielle your tribute to your daughter is just beautiful, sending you big hugs, Love Tanya xx Close

Remembering / Britney Hynds (Friend)
My mummy helped write this for us Belle.xx

I miss you at this time my friend
more than a 4 yr old can comprehend.

I blow you a kiss to your star in space
only to wish it could be face to face.

I wish the angels did not take you that day 
and cause all your family and friends dismay.

I wish god had not needed a new angel in heaven,
then maybe we could still be playin together.

I want you to know I will never forget you,
the fun that we had and the moment I met you.

The mischeif we made and the cheek that I gave you,
but you still were my friend and for that I thank you.

I miss you so much that it hurts to say.
I only wish I could have helped you stay.

I love you my Bella, I miss you so much.
I wish you could be here but know that's not enough.

I promise to keep you alive in my heart,
even though god said that we had to part.

I will treasure your memory and love you always,
and remember to blow kisses to your star in the skyways.

Always in my heart love Britney Hynds xxxxxxxxxxx

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Anniversary-Belle's Life  / Mummy
It has been a year since our angel baby was taken from us and as the day approaches to mark this we remember her with such love. We miss her the same every day and I know for both anniversaries, the one before Good Friday and then the actual date, we won't wake up and miss her more or be magically healed. It simply heightens our pain and brings up the memories of our loss. It marks her departure and I have struggled all year to celebrate her life and not be crippled by her death.

She was the product of Noel and myself. She looked like me and she reminded me of both of us. She had my calm way and she had his fear of loud noises. She hated vacuum cleaners, sharp loud noises and anything that didn't make sense, like gloves and stockings. I think she didn't like that your hands and feet disappeared.

She hated new shoes. We would have to hold her down at the beginning of every season and pull the shoes on while she tried to pull them off. Needless to say she only really had one pair for each season, two if we pushed our luck.

She only had one hair cut in her life and she worried that she would ever have to have another. She cried through it and spoke about it for the next two years.

When we went shopping and were riding the moving ramp to leave she would call out goodbye to each of the shops. Goodbye bread shop, goodbye glasses shop, goodbye shoe shop...it was so cute.

She loved Ponies and Care bears and whenever I see one I instantly think of her playing at gym under the table with her bag stuffed full of her ponies. Which reminds me of the time she sat quietly at gym and used a texta as lipstick. She was stealthfully quiet during this surprise for mummy. She was the world’s neatest colourer and I've said this before you can tell a Belle page in any of our colouring books straight away and its so nice now to come across one.

These are the types of memories that we are celebrating when we stop to mark her life on the 13th. These are the sums of parts that added up to make Isabelle our Belle, these here are but a few.

She had a lot of friends at school and we maintain this is because she truly was a gentle loving soul. Each of those friends has missed her terribly and has also grieved her this year. She has found a place in their hearts and she would chatter about each of them on her way to and from school. She would tell me how she played in the sand pit or played fun with her favourite people. Thank you to those lovely souls and their parents for allowing us to keep a part of Belle with us through the relationship she had with her friends.

She would tell me if anyone annoyed her too and she would say it like this 'they were fighting me mummy, they were fighting me...’ I tried to talk to her about why but basically I learnt it meant they did something she wasn't happy about. She was annoyed.

She loved Madeleine so much and they spent so much of their time at home together. Madeleine was so protective of Belle and I knew if they were together that Belle would be fine, because Madeleine had her back.
She misses her and she too is feeling the world spin back into alignment and I treasure that she is here and that we can talk about Belle with her and keep her close during this time. It's hard for all of us.

I celebrate Belle during this time not because of how or when she died but because of all the love she gave and all the good memories I have of her. I celebrate her life, the moments and the fact that she made me a different person and she continues to leave her mark on this world. She was special because she was ours and we wish that this was not the first of many anniversaries, we wish that she would magically appear and that someone would laugh and say fooled you.

I miss her with ever ounce of my being and I will keep her with me and celebrate her.


Love you Miss Honey XXXXXX
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I love you to Pluto and back, Belle.
 


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Moments, gifts and Thanks  / Mummy
Dear Belle,

As the world spins back into alignment, the light is begining to look the same and I am feeling the weight of our loss bearing down on me.

We are heading towards the first anniversary and I feel myself being swept up in the wirlpool of our grief.

There are no adequate words to describe what it's like each day for daddy and me.  All I can say is that the hole in our heart hurts every second and nothing eases it.  Our wish is simple, to have you back and we can't.  Nothing can compare and no one can understand.  We have sufferred and continue to do so.

We miss the simple chatter of your voice, your love of ice cream and your hatred of robots.  Every essence of your being.

We were chosen as the parents of a beautiful angel and as the day approaches Belle, we will continue to navigate this world with the strength and courage we have shown all year.  We miss you and hold tight to the gifts you gave us and the time we were blessed to have with you.

Many have been changed by the loss of Belle and the carnage has been great, but she never wanted to see a single person sad and I know if she knew people were sad- she would demand we stop and be ok.  She would say 'its ok now... it's ok...' and it will be, because her memory, love and light shines bright with those that honour her.  

Her gifts are everywhere and for those that continue to help Madeleine to survive this, we thank you.  Your strength is her strength, your influence so strong. She has needed each and everyone of you to steer her and anchor her in this world.  She holds Belle tight and talks of her often.  She smiles and her face, so similar to Belle's just highlights the gifts Belle gave that awful day.

We cherish the moments Belle.

Thanks again for sharing this Shayne...it is so fitting...

"How does one become a butterfly??"

Pooh asked pensively

"You must want to fly so much that your willing to give up being a caterpillar," piglet replied.......

"You mean die??" Asked pooh

"Yes and no" he answered

"What looks like you die but what's REALLY you live on."


author - A.A. Milne

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Thank you so much  / Melissa Halstead
I am currently expecting my 2nd child and because of that we were looking at purchasing a booster seat for my 3 and half year old. I am now thinking that we should keep him in the car seat he is in, which has the 5 point harness and will keep him safe until he is 5 years old. So now we are looking at another car seat for the 2nd child. You have opened up my eyes to the dangers of boosters and I will make sure that when my son does goes into a booster seat it is with a harness. I am so sorry for your loss, but it is nice to see that you are trying help others learn out of this terrrible tragedy. Close

Beautiful Isabelle, honoring her memory.  / Jody Ferlaak (new friend )
Danielle~ I emailed you the following message which came back to me, so I am writing it here for you to see. Blessings on you and all your family.

Hello Danielle~

Thank you for your email and link to Isabelle's website. I am deeply
saddened at her death, and the pain I know you feel everyday. My
sympathies to you and your family.

Thank you for using her life and death to reach out and tell others
about the needs for better saftey measures with car seats. While we will
never understand the reason 'why' Isabelle had to die, I hope you know
that you are honoring her life by sharing it with so many others.

I will think of you as the annivesary approaches, marking a whole
year without her. Your heart will be breaking all over again...and I will
be praying for you to feel comfort and to hang on to the wonderful
memories you will always have of your beautiful, little girl. April 13th
was my grandma's birthday- so I will not forget this day.

All my best to you as you walk this journey of life no w carrying the
burden of grief in your heart. I hope you will continue to seek ways to
remember Isabelle, to share her life with others, and to find joy and
happiness in life- in the little things that truly matter!

Thank you again for your note and link. I really appreciate that you
took time to share with me. I hope you keep reading my blog, and we
will stay in touch.
Sweetly~ Jody Ferlaak
www.jodyferlaak.blogspot.com
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