Burglars stole a laptop and camera containing images of the last days of an 18-month-old Mililani toddler who died of cancer last month, and his mother is hoping whoever stole the items has the heart to give them back.

Rebecca Stringer said she was out having pizza with her son Theo, 3, Thursday between 12:30 and 2:15 p.m. when someone entered their Mililani home by removing louvers.

After returning home, she found the intruder had taken jewelry, two cameras, an external hard drive and three laptops from her bedroom. The burglar carried them away in the pillowcase she made for the time she spent in the hospital caring for her younger son, Vincent.

Stringer, 29, reported the burglary to police. She said she is not concerned about the jewelry and other computers — even the jewelry pieces given to her by her father when she was 13. But she hopes the person will return — no questions asked — the silver, 13-inch Macbook Pro and digital camera, both of which contain a large number of photos and videos of her late son.

“The thing that I care the most about are my son’s pictures and the videos because I will never have him back,” she said. “Those pictures and videos mean more to me than anything in the world. … I need those pictures of my son.”

Vincent was diagnosed with a rare form of liver cancer in June, soon after his first birthday. The cancer mutated into an untreatable form and spread to his lungs. Stringer quit her job as music director at Kapahulu Baptist Church under the stress of caring for her son, who spent 60 days in the hospital, needed treatment every day until his death and died at home on Nov. 20.

She began documenting him on video when he was diagnosed and made daily videos of him in the last few weeks of his life, as part of a family video journal, especially for Theo when he gets older.

The videos, which are on only the stolen computer and camera, show Vincent going to the beach, tossing blocks, and rolling over, and Stringer holding his body after he died.

“He was a very charming child,” she said. “He was really happy, very giving. He loved his brother.”

The items can be returned either by calling Stringer at 741-1335 or leaving the items at Mililani High School.

Vincent’s story can be read at www.caringbridge.org/visit/vincentstringer.