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Katherine is a merchant sailor, deployed overseas an average of 50 out of 52 weeks every year. She keeps in touch with her family via Facebook. She\u00a0stays pretty close to\u00a0her sister Ann, niece\u00a0Laura, Laura’s husband Mike, and their seven year old daughter\u00a0Kayden. This last year, Laura and Mike were blessed with a second pregnancy and found out it was a boy. Laura and Mike involved their daughter\u00a0with the oncoming birth of their son from the very beginning,\u00a0establishing that sibling love and bond almost immediately.<\/p>\n

While on Facebook, Katherine saw an advertisement for Budsies and decided to check it\u00a0out. Once she discovered the possibility to turn art into a huggable custom stuffed animal<\/a>, she wrote to her sister Ann asking her to have Kayden draw a picture of a toy that she would like to have for her soon-to-be baby brother Bryce. Ann happily obliged and Kayden immediately got to work.<\/p>\n

\"customKayden drew her then-unborn brother a turquoise bear with blue belly and black hockey stick to represent their avid fandom for the Arizona State University Sun Devils<\/a> hockey team (Kayden plays hockey and their family attends all the games), which Katherine fired off to Budsies.<\/p>\n

The bear, when completed, was mailed off to Ann\u2019s house. She took it over to Kayden so that she could give it to her now two-month-old baby brother, Bryce.<\/p>\n

Ann has told Katherine how Kayden is immensely proud of the bear that she created for her brother. The photo below\u00a0shows Kayden with Bryce and his new Budsie \u2014 which then promptly went into his mouth so he could chew on it. This is something he’ll be able to play with for years and cherish for decades. It’ll always be a reminder of his sister’s love, which is one of the most beautiful things to capture in life.<\/p>\n\n

\"custom\u201cI\u2019m absolutely tickled that I was able to continue to increase the bond between sister and brother that Mike and Laura worked so hard to establish,\u201d said Katherine. \u201cThis was a perfect way for me to become involved from the other side of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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