Levi Wright’s parents held the 3-year-old as he passed away in a toy tractor accident

Levi Wright’s mother is mourning her son on the one-year anniversary of his unfortunate death.

“A year ago today, we held you as you took your last breaths,” Kallie Wright wrote on Monday, June 2, in an Instagram post accompanying a photo of herself and her husband holding Levi in his hospital bed.

The 3-year-old, whom Kallie shares with rodeo star Spencer Wright, was taken off life support last year, roughly two weeks after driving a toy tractor into the river while playing at his Utah home in May 2024, according to officials and his family.

“They mentioned it may take a day or two, and I was terrified I wouldn’t be holding you when you departed, which was very important to me. ” You stayed with us for 17 minutes,” Kallie wrote in her tribute on Monday.

“As you left, an overwhelming feeling came over me & I knew we had done right by you,” she wrote. “For me, this isn’t the day you completely left us, but the day it became official. Levi, we chat and think about you every day. We live for you! ” Our love for you is stronger than ever.”

Since Levi’s death, his family has donated to the Levi Wright Foundation, “where we hope to help families that face similar unimaginable situations in his memory,” according to the organization’s Facebook page.

The foundation is also planning a fundraising barrel race next month.

Levi was first hospitalized in serious condition, and his mother provided frequent updates on her son’s development over the next few days, some of which were encouraging and others tragic.

On May 26, 2024, five days after the tragedy, Kallie posted on Facebook that the family was “taking it day by day” after obtaining MRI findings that left them feeling “shattered.”

Although they attempted to wean Levi off sedation, he was unable to cope, and on June 2, 2024, Kallie revealed that, “After several sleepless nights, lots of research, multiple conversations with the world’s best neurologists, and millions of prayers,” the family felt it was “time.”

“Levi showed us just enough to buy us time for all of this,” she texted back. “We prayed those things were him defying odds and proving to us that he wanted to stay here, but now we see he wants to give us time to find peace with letting him go.”

On the one-month anniversary of Levi’s death, Kallie, who is also the mother to girls Steeley and Brae Milo, reminisced on her love for her son and offered advice to other parents.

“Don’t simply take your kids to exciting activities; do them with them! Get into the pool, swing, slide, run through the sprinklers, sled down the hill, etc. “You get the idea!” she wrote, encouraging families to get professional images done more frequently.

“Kids grow far too fast, and things are always changing,” she said. “I wanted to wait till I lost the baby weight and this and that, but now the only really excellent photos I have are from Brae’s newborn session, which his father was unable to attend. “I wish I had done something this spring.”

Is there another important lesson to be learned?

“Everything, and I mean everything, is fixable and replaceable, so don’t make mountains out of molehills,” she tweeted”

“I have a throw pillow on my couch with little slits from when Levi got ahold of scissors and little Easter bunny stamps on my wall in the playroom,” she talked about. “I realize now I definitely overreacted, & I could have talked to him about it without being mad and frustrated.”

Kallie concluded her statement with thankfulness for her kid.

“Thanks for being my adventure buddy, Levi, & for teaching me so much!” she wrote to herself. “I miss & love you!”

In a second post, days after Levi’s death, Kallie wrote honestly about her sadness and how she would “lose sleep over this tragedy for eternity.”

“1. I am not a perfect mother, but I am a decent one. 2. My tiny kid loved me with everything he had. 3. “Never say never because it only takes seconds and could happen to you,” she wrote. “I pray anyone who judges me or has hurtful words to say never finds themself on the receiving end of a nightmare like this.”