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Lost, PLEASE help!

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skie · 14/01/2004 10:18

My 4 year old daughter has lost her number one toy, (a cuddly strawbery with green arms and legs) her boy, her main man, the thing she has slept with and kept close to her since babyhood. (She even had a birthday cake in his image last year, and he is in just about every photo ever taken of her...) It happened four months ago (only explanation is that he went out with the rubbish) and she's actually getting worse, not better (we convinced her that he was lost temporarily in the house, lying waiting to be found, which she believed.) Now she beginning to doubt it and talks about him every night, and first thing in the morning. Last night she started to cry and said, 'I don't think we'll ever find Strawberry..' Whenever anyone says anything like, "We've got a surprise for you..", her first reponse is 'Have you found Strawberry??' I am so desperate, and HAVE to find her another - trouble is he came from a charity shop for 20 p, and all it said on his label was 'PEEKO', which appears to be a toy manufacturer in Korea! He has eyes, a big smile, a red handle and a few leaves on his head! He is about the size of an adult hand! We have photos we can email if anyone has a spare (unloved) toy that fits this description. PLEASE, if there are any mums out there with any ideas on how to find a toy like this, please, please let me know!

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popsycal · 19/01/2004 12:59

carla - thank you so much
ds is poorly today so i am off work with him - he has been carrying it round shouting leeeelooooo (milo)
thanks again1

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skie · 19/01/2004 13:14

mum has measurements from a time dd drew round strawberry boy and we know think he is smaller than Emmas... I'm afraid we may have to cut around him, sew him up/ work on him a little...

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Posey · 19/01/2004 13:18

Just had to log on in the day which I never normally do, but then this is no ordinary occasion.
This just gets more and more exciting.
Oh no I'm out all morning tomorrow. How will I be able to concentrare on the meeting with the reunion to think about?
I think its going to be another long day for you all, almost like waitng for all your childhood Christmasses at once and every birthday too.
Will log on later to hear any more.

katierocket · 19/01/2004 13:18

OMG - poor strawberry, he has to have an operation?

Tissy · 19/01/2004 13:21

BUT if you draw round something it tends to come out a bit bigger all the way round, because the tip of the pencil is a bit further out from the middle....

clutching at straws here!!

Clarinet60 · 19/01/2004 13:25

Sorry if it's already been suggested, but could you say that he's been eating too much chocolate while he's been away, so he's grown?

emmatmg · 19/01/2004 13:26

ohhhh nooooooooo.

I'll break the news to strawberry that he's going to have to have surgery.

Carla · 19/01/2004 13:26

Skie,

Couldn't DH throw a sicky this arvo?????

janelmp · 19/01/2004 13:41

Hello everyone. Just to introduce myself, I'm the famous Emmatmg's big sister. Emma has often raved about the Mumsnet site, but until now, I've never visited. Emma sent me a link to the thread so I could print this thread off for mum. Unfortunately , it now runs to 50 pages and I ran out of paper half way through.

I whole hearteldy agree with all the comments about this being a real tearjerker. I told my dd and dh nickname - Peach (heart of stone) and even he got all misty eyed. Have just called him at work to let him know that Strawberry has completed stage 1 of his journey home. Can't wait to hear what Skie's dd thinks of him.

GeorginaA · 19/01/2004 13:46

YAY!

I'd definitely go for strawberry eating too much chocolate theory... quickly smear some melted chocolate buttons around his mouth for "proof"

aloha · 19/01/2004 13:56

Agree with Tissy. It's like those hand drawings that they bring home from nursery - enormous great mittens because they draw round them quite clumsily and always draw bigger. Bet Strawberry is the same size (fingers crossed).

janelmp · 19/01/2004 13:57

I certainly agree that Strawberry could have put on weight while she was travelling, and the chocolate buttons idea is a winner.

emmatmg · 19/01/2004 14:08

Hello janelmp.....its bloody wierd seeing you here!

JanH · 19/01/2004 14:26

The drawing theory would be good if the new one was smaller but he's bigger, isn't he? (She?)

Go with the choc buttons!

JanH · 19/01/2004 14:27

Hello, jane, btw!

BekkiKay · 19/01/2004 14:32

Yaeeeeeeeeeeee!

aloha · 19/01/2004 15:04

True JanH. Just being stupid. Fingers still crossed though!

SHIREENSMOM · 19/01/2004 15:15

well done everyone i am in tears now i hope your dd is sooo exciteed can you get photos of the big meet up?

emmatmg · 19/01/2004 15:20

Skie, I've been think about whether strawbeery is to big(like everyone else I suppose) and in the pictures I sent you he does look quite large when next to the phone (sorry I only sent skie these ones ladies) but when I lie him on top of the phone(I know, mad mad mad but I'm desparate) it's about 2 inches longer than him so I think the photo must be an optical illusion.
And my DH is home now and his hand covers it completely, and beyond so for him strawberry IS smaller than an adult mans hand. If your DD's strawberry is smaller would he have been ALOT smaller or just a little because I imagine the difference in the sizes is quite alot to cover the market for small cuddly strawberries IYKWIM

katierocket · 19/01/2004 15:36

emmatmg - you are truly a good woman. I was similing reading your description of you lying strawberry onto the phone and DH's hand to check size

JanH · 19/01/2004 15:50

So he's not bigger? He is the right size? The suspense is killing me!!! (And I am supposed to be w@rking!)

Naughtynoonoo · 19/01/2004 16:00

God it takes ages to catch up on the days postings doesn't it. The minute I dialled up - I thought - oh I must find out about Strawberry - this is better than the Kilroy Silk saga! Would you risk putting Strawberry in a hot wash???? Alternatively you could say that he must have overeaten over the Christmas period just like dh!!

janelmp · 19/01/2004 16:18

After all this, if Strawberry is too big, I think I'll be heartbroken, let alone Skie's dd. However, I'm very optimistic, having seen Strawberry in the flesh (so to speak) I'm pretty damn sure he's the right one. After all, there can't be that many 'Strawberries' in this world can there !! I'm really looking forward to the final meeting - I can't wait.

Oh, by the way Emma (in big Sis mode now) - like you, all I've been doing today is checking this thread and the other stuff on Mumsnet. I saw 'And 4 becomes 5', but haven't found much else that you've posted yet. Consequently, it's taken me ALL day to do the washing and i forgot the time and was nearly late to pickup dd from school. I blame you entirely for this!!!

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skie · 19/01/2004 16:23

God, it takes about half an hour to log on to this site - is it about to crash??
Emma - that made me feel more confident. You wouldn't think they'd make them in sizes just a couple of inches apart, would you? I mean, how much demand for strawberrys like this can there be??
DH is pretty sure it's too big though. WHO KNOWS??
Sorry, you are all fantastic for caring and understanding - and I feel like making up ahappy ending just cos you all deserve one! But, then if I'm still looking after tomorrow, who can I ask for help but mumsnet??
I just couldn't tell dd he has grown - she'd know it wasn't him! We once saw a bigger version in a charity shop and bought it to keep the other one company, but dd was so uninterested, he was sent to a jumble sale about 18 months ago.
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH just about sums it up.

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mears · 19/01/2004 16:50

Should you start a part 2 thread to reduce the download time - don't like to interfere in someone else's thread