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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 · 15/01/2004 20:40

this poor mum though - i have two blue ones like her pink one....
bought a spare after he got attached to the first one....

popsycal · 15/01/2004 20:40

awwwwh
the email may not come til tomorrow ladies!

emmatmg · 15/01/2004 20:52

Skie.....absolultey positive it's him. Just spoke to my mum to tell the the good news and she's going to send it to me so that I can forward it on to you. She's a dinner lady for the reception children so loves this sort of thing, I'm sure I heard her voice 'waver' when i told her!
When he gets here I'll take a photo of him and email it to you just so your little girl can see him on holiday....blimey I'll even set up a little holiday scene.

emmatmg · 15/01/2004 20:54

BTW thanks for the marriage offer, not sure how DH will take it. Mind you being a man he'll probably quite like the idea

tamum · 15/01/2004 20:54

That's so sweet! Could you get him some little shades, and maybe a cocktail in his hand? I can't wait to hear how your dd reacts, skie

tamum · 15/01/2004 20:55

(cross posted- that was the strawberry I was referring to emma, not your dh )

skie · 15/01/2004 20:56

emma, sorry, I'm trying not to lose it completely, just in case...preparing myself for worst case scenarios. Is he about the size of an adult hand? (They made him in several sizes and ours was the smallest.)

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emmatmg · 15/01/2004 20:56

tamum, that's what my mum said....she'd love to see the reaction when the reunion take place.

crystaltips · 15/01/2004 20:59

Yahoo !! This is what MN is all about ... Success !! Isn't this great !
Beats the hell out of chocolate ....... OK OK so I was getting carried away

emmatmg · 15/01/2004 21:01

Well I've got quite small hands and from memory he's be just a little wider(like from cheek to cheek) than my hand.....hang on let me measure my hand......ok my hand from tip of middle finger to wrist in 6 3/4 inches.

Is that too big? we ALL put weight on when we're on holiday don't we?

skie · 15/01/2004 21:06

He sounds perfect!

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Enid · 15/01/2004 21:07

I will willingly miss the start of ER to hear how this all resolves itself.

I love mumsnet

emmatmg · 15/01/2004 21:08

Wooo-Hoooooooooo

Enid · 15/01/2004 21:09

And I think tech should craft a 'smiley' of Strawberry so that we can post him whenever things get too heated

popsycal · 15/01/2004 21:13

enid - hey that is a fab idea!!!
how sweet!

Beccarollover · 15/01/2004 21:13

Oh wow, now Im tearful but Ive had an emotional day (my excuse) that is just absolutely bloody brilliant - I cried when I saw him sitting on the sofa, oh your little girl will be so thrilled - its brilliant

Well done emma and well done emma's mum!

Beccarollover · 15/01/2004 21:18

On a similar theme but not as important - I need a teddy bear from the mobile on the graco swing, there are 3 small teddies and one is missing so would be very grateful for one of those as Ive sold it to someone and dont want it to be incomplete :D

twiglett · 15/01/2004 21:24

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CountessDracula · 15/01/2004 21:33

YES YES YES!

This has made me cry

We MUST see a piccy of your ds with the new strawberry when you get it!

skie · 15/01/2004 21:38

of course, I will definietly post a picture and give detailed account of the big day!

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popsycal · 15/01/2004 21:40

do you have a video camera skie?
if not, coulfd you borrow one?

emmatmg · 15/01/2004 21:43

I'm trying to think of a holiday scene for him.
Suggestions please anyone.

emmatmg · 15/01/2004 21:44

We have sand in the shed so might try a little beach thing.......if the bloody rain ever stops.

twiglett · 15/01/2004 21:44

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emmatmg · 15/01/2004 21:48

Good thinking Twiglet