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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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Carla · 16/01/2004 09:53

Popsycal,

He's sitting here watching me type this. He's about 14 inches long with a blue shirt on, longing for a new home and eyeing up a jiffy bag. How do I get in touch with you????

Carla

popsycal · 16/01/2004 09:54

That's him!!!
they were around £8.99 last xmas
been too ALL the toy shops i can thikn of but cant find him anywhere!!

popsycal · 16/01/2004 09:55

and i therefore will pay or send something in exchange!
how old are your kids carla?

Carla · 16/01/2004 10:00

Popsycal,

No need to at all - they're spoilt rotten by their Nanny anyway! But what's the safest way to get your address - popping into Oxford in the next 15 mins and would love for you to have him tomorrow!

wilbur · 16/01/2004 10:00

I'm so, so glad Strawberry is on his way home, I've been reading this and hoping. CD, your kangaroo story is just gorgeous - what a lovely mum you've got. A friend did something similar for me - she saved a soft toy lamb that my mother had given to her dd when she was born and gave it back to me when I was expecting ds. My mother had died a few years before and it was just so wonderful to have a toy that she had at least bought for a baby. Ds wasn't very keen on it, but dd thinks it's great and I well up every time I see her cuddling it.

debster · 16/01/2004 10:03

This thread is fantastic. I LOVE MUMSNET

Well done emma.

Skie - are you tempted just to put it in her bed while she's asleep and to wait for her reaction in the morning or are you really looking forward to the big reunion?

Carla · 16/01/2004 10:04

PS Popsycal my email address is

carla(dot)bramble(at)ntlworld.com

codswallop · 16/01/2004 10:09

OK then , bet no one has a small hand sized cuddly leopard short tail, not really leopardy looking.. about 5 years old...

tigermoth · 16/01/2004 11:35

The drama, the tears, the happy endings - what a thread!

GeorginaA · 16/01/2004 12:10

I'm all weepy now! (blame the pregnancy hormones, blame the pregnancy hormones)

PLEASE post the holiday pic up somewhere and link to it and a pic of the reunion... am dying to see them!!

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skie · 16/01/2004 12:13

debster - that is such a lovely idea. We can say he must have found his way to her (it is a her, sorry I kept writing ds instead of dd in all the excitement!) and sneaked in during the night! Will let you know as soon as we have him. (I dreamt about it all last night, though in my dream, we opened the envelope and he was the wrong one!...) Sorry, I always was a terrible pessimist. My huband is convinced it's the one.

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popsycal · 16/01/2004 12:17

awwwh skie!!

bossykate · 16/01/2004 12:31

wow.

Hulababy · 16/01/2004 12:57

Only just caught up with this thread. It is so lovely

Well done Emma!

And Carla too, for helping Popsycal's DS.

SenoraPostrophe · 16/01/2004 13:20

aww. This thread has cheered me up no end. Please get that Stawberry posted registered though!

emmatmg · 16/01/2004 14:42

Hello Girls, the strawberry saver here!

Coddy, we have a TY beanie baby leopard, is that what you're after?

emmatmg · 16/01/2004 14:46

SP.....he's not going in the post at all (except to my house from Mum's) Skie has a friend who works near me so the delivery will be in person.

Skie, Mum said she would to see the reaction of you DD, I don't suppose I could ask for a photo for her could I?

Mum2Ela · 16/01/2004 14:54

Have just read this thread from start to finish - ROFL!!

You are all mental (v kind, sweet, generous etc.) but barking mad!!!!

xx

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skie · 16/01/2004 15:12

of course your mum can have a photo - she could also have a holiday home in the caribbean if we could only afford it!
Still trying to contain myself til it's safe in dd's arms!

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debster · 16/01/2004 15:37

I'm so excited about this - do you know when the big day will be?

Blu · 16/01/2004 15:40

This is fantastic!
I woke up in the night last night thinking about this, and how far children would in their hearts of hearts know that it was a different Strawberry, but quite often take protection in the story they WANT to believe.

In view of your DDs worry that Strawberry might have CHOSEN to stay away, could Strawberry actually have been in hospital for a while, and arrive home in a bandage?

This is SO exciting!

emmatmg · 16/01/2004 15:44

Skie, Mum just phoned........strawberry is on the first leg of HER journey home. Recorded delivery of course, only the best for such a celeb!

WSM · 16/01/2004 15:55

FANTASTIC ! Have been wondering what the outcome for this would be.

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skie · 16/01/2004 17:02

Hopefully, we can pick him up tomorrow. dh and I keep imagining how we are going to do this.. sneak him in her bed while she's asleep...dh suggested putting him on the windowsill outside peeking in at her so she see's him while sitting at the kitchen table!
If he is the right one, we can rough him up a bit (he had lost his label and his leaves) and I know dd will believe it's him. She is a particularly kind, gentle and trusting (gullible?) four year old, dd2 is half her age but so much more sussed. She will probably be the one to tell her older sister that Santa doesn't exist (when she's about 16....)

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sb34 · 16/01/2004 17:07

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