A Texas mom captured the moment her 22-month-old daughter left for a trip to the store without her, not knowing it would be her last.

In a reel on Instagram, mom Naïma Hill filmed her toddler, Aveline or 'Avy' as she was nicknamed, heading out the door with her dad for a quick Home Depot errand.

That morning, David had gently encouraged Avy to go on a "daddy adventure" without mom. "She was excited to go but also a bit nervous," Naïma told Newsweek .

"I was always recording things to show my kids when they grew up. Who knew it would actually be for me to bawl over watching in the middle of the night, missing my babe ."

Days later, in May 2023, Naïma and her two children, Avy and Kade, then 4, were in a devastating car crash. The Hills were on their way to visit family overseas wh

See Full Page