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Sonny, aged six, and his four-year-old cousin Eddie died when the vehicle crashed into a boulder and plunged into an 11-metre deep swollen waterhole in Peria on the North Island on December 29.
The boys’ bodies were recovered the next day.
Sonny’s stepmother Destiny Swann posted a heartfelt tribute for the little boys.
“Sonny, our little sunshine, our bug-man, our fruit-bat, our sunny-bunny, our cheeky-monkey,” she said.
“Our hearts are forever broken for you and are unmendable.”
“We’ll always love you forever, even if you can’t see us and even on our darkest of days, the thought of you will be a ray of Sonshine!
“We will love you forever and ever and always.”
She said Eddie was “cheeky and cheerful, full of adventure, and so full of light”.
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”He would brighten every room he walked into,” Swann added.
“Words cannot paint a picture of how wonderful and special our wee boy was.”
Other relatives paid tribute to the little boys who were “irreplaceable lights”.
”No words can capture the magnitude of loss we feel, the unique spark that made Sonny and Eddie so extraordinarily special to us all,” their aunt Mahdi Jhan Sandford wrote on an online fundraising site.
“Losing you both, has shattered hearts beyond repair. Our hearts are forever broken for you and our family and are unmendable.”
New Zealand Police extended their condolences to the families of the two boys.
“Police are making enquiries on behalf of the Coroner,” police said.
