BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- The mother of two boys who drowned yesterday says they should have not left their baby sitters' sight.

Candiace Tucker of East Bakersfield left her two young boys in the care of friends yesterday.

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Friends she says she thought she could trust.

"I'm feeling angry and lost right now," said Tucker.

Tucker was barely able to speak Thursday afternoon. Still in utter shock over the death of her two boys, 1-year-old Micah and 4-year-old Marcus. The boys drowned Wednesday morning while Tucker's two roommates baby-sat and she was at work. One roommate was reportedly sleeping and the other in the bathroom when the family believes Micah went outside to the pool.

"He loves water and to him it might've been a big bathtub," said Tucker.

The family thinks Micah fell in first and Marcus went in to save him. Both were later found at the bottom of the pool. Tucker says the boys should never have left anyone's sight.

"[The baby-sitters] were not paying attention. I left them in the house with grown men. People I trusted," said Tucker.

In a sad twist, Marcus' middle name is Naveah, which is the spelling of heaven backward. He was given that name because he originally died at birth and was revived. Now he's dead again, less than two weeks after his fourth birthday.

"I feel like a Molotov cocktail. I'm on fire with every emotion possible because they were gone so fast and here so little," said their aunt, Michele Criddle.

Although the boys weren't here long, their leaving has taught the family a valuable lesson. "Do not leave your kids with people you think you know, keep them with you," said Tucker.

"Hold onto your babies, hold onto them," said Criddle.