SANDPOINT — It has been almost exactly two years since 15-month-old Vaiden Bailey drowned, and last week, his mother said her heart broke all over again as she discovered his belongings missing from her storage unit.

"It is killing me as a mother, not only to lose my son, but now to lose all I have left," Katelynn Bailey said in a message to the Daily Bee last Wednesday.

As the anniversary of his death neared, Bailey sought to comfort herself last week by going through some of Vaiden's stuff. When she arrived at the storage unit, she found a new lock had been placed on the door.

After getting the lock cut off, Bailey said she discovered two gray storage totes full of Vaiden's belongings were missing. The totes were located in the back of the storage unit, and nothing else was missing, Bailey said. She has been renting the storage unit for about three months, she said, and the items were in place when she had last visited a week before. There are no cameras at the storage unit, so Bailey said while the Sandpoint Police Department is looking into it, they do not have any leads.

On April 27, 2016, the Bailey family lived near the Jewel Lake Barn, a popular wedding destination. One morning, shortly after 7 a.m., Bailey woke up and discovered Vaiden was missing.

"As soon as I saw the door open, I had that feeling," Bailey told the Daily Bee during an interview in August. "He has always been obsessed with the water, and we were just out there the day before to let a turtle go that we found in the road."

She found her son by a small bridge on the lake and took him ashore. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation was done with some degree of success, she said, as some of the water was expelled from his lungs. He was flown to Kootenai Health, and later transferred to Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane. Vaiden, fondly known by his family as "Boo Boo," remained on life support for two days before he died on April 29.

Bailey kept all of his belongings — clothes, blankets, shoes, teddy bears and a diaper bag with Vaiden's half-eaten Cheetos in it — in the totes and hopes the mementos of her late son will be returned.

She encourages anyone with information to contact the Sandpoint Police Department at 208-265-1482.

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