Hotmail account removed

Hi All

My wife created two Hotmail accounts for our children (they are quite young still) and has been sending them messages and pictures that hopefully one day when they are bigger they can read and see what they were doing and what was happening at the time. She just tired to send them a message but the mail bounced back saying the address no longer exists. We tired to log into the account and got the same message.

Can anyone tell me if the accounts have been removed for good or is there a way to get them back? In hindsight we should have been logging into the accounts periodically to keep them active.

Thanks for the help.

Sean