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dd2 has lost her favourite teddy

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Radley · 21/07/2006 17:54

My four year old has had a cuddly hippo since she was a babe in arms.

She has lost him today I can remember the last place I saw him and have been walking round town for the last two hours looking for him and askin in nearly every shop, to no avail.

I feel sooooooooooooooo guilty as I THINK I was the last one to pick him up.

DD2 is distraught and keeps coming up to me sobbing and saying she is missing him and can we go to the girls house who has now got him and ask for him back ( I told her he had got lost and another little girl has picked him up and taken him home)

Has anyone else been through this? How do I stop myself from feeling like the worst mummy in the world, I feel v weepy myself over how upset she is etc.

HELP!!!

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SSSandy · 21/07/2006 17:55

Do you remember the name of the company that made it or where you bought it?

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Radley · 21/07/2006 17:57

yes, i have got another exactly the same but she doesn't want him

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Whizzz · 21/07/2006 17:58

Get the new one & write a little note saying what fun he's had on his hols !

SoupDragon · 21/07/2006 17:58

I guess she won't be fooled if you leave the 2nd hippo in the garden for her to find?

Whizzz · 21/07/2006 17:58

Say that he's had a wash & brush up at the hairdressers

SSSandy · 21/07/2006 17:59

That's a good idea Soup Dragon. Maybe if he's roughed up a bit...

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Radley · 21/07/2006 18:00

If you put the two them side by side you could see the difference, he has been hugged and cuddled literally to death, was covered in paint and had stitches on his foot where he had an 'operation'.

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SSSandy · 21/07/2006 18:02

When/where was the last place you saw him and what did you do after that till you noticed he was missing?

psychomum5 · 21/07/2006 18:04

can you there fore not splatter said 'spare' with paint tonight while she sleeps, then sew his foot al la operation and then rough him up somewhat!

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Radley · 21/07/2006 18:05

i saw him in superdrug, we walked hrugh town centre, got her an icelolly on the way called into two shops then tescos. i noticed in tescos, re-traced steps about 5 times and visited all shops

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YellowFeathers · 21/07/2006 18:05

I remember dd losing her blanket in town once. Luckily we picked it back up in the ELC who had thrown it in the bin
They said "if'd you have come later we'd have chucked the rubbish out"

It was a definate childs blanket. I couldn't believe they threw it in the bin rather than put it in a lost property basket or something.

Give the shops a call in the morning and see if the cleaners have picked it up. They normally go in early morning and it could have been kicked under a stand or anything.
Worth a shot.

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Radley · 21/07/2006 18:08

knowing people round here he's in the bin or in their bag

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Radley · 21/07/2006 18:09

i'll be back in town in the mornig

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yomellamoHelly · 21/07/2006 18:12

Been through this too. Persevere with the replacement, I'd say. Ds eventually accepted his about 3 days later and I was able to breathe a huge sigh of relief. Now have a stock pile of his teddies in hiding 'cause I couldn't bear going through it again.
You'd have thought someone would have taken pity and placed your dd's hippo somewhere prominent and safe ready to be found, really.

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Radley · 21/07/2006 19:23

I thought that too, if I saw a teddy, blanket, doll etc and it looked weathered etc I would put it somewhere to be found, I feel really really guilty, she has gone to bed and, as yet, there are no tears, i'll now have to start looking for a replacement.

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phatcat · 21/07/2006 19:41

If you don't find him you could try the Tatty Ratty story by Helen Cooper with your dd. Plot is that a little girl leaves her beloved rabbit on the bus. Over the course of a week she and her mum and dad invent stories about all the adventures he's having, each of which involves him subtly changing in appearance, so that by the time they go to the toyshop at the weekend she's got the idea that he's going to look different. V. clever.

FloatingOnTheMed · 21/07/2006 19:49

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octavia · 21/07/2006 21:02

I think I read about a website set up for lost toys,I'm sure it was on mumsnet.
I hope you find him

Skribble · 21/07/2006 22:59

DS lost his little turtle toy last year, he got in his head that santa would bring him back (he is 9yrs). Now I think he has doubts about santa but I tried my hardest to get as close a replacement as possible.

I got one but you could tell it was different, I downloaded a few holiday type pics from around the world and made a little tiny scrap book up. Wraped him up and covered parcel with fragile and airmail stickers and put it in his stocking.

He loved the story and loved the replacement, even though he made a passing comment about him being a bit dfferent .

treacletart · 21/07/2006 23:25

toys reunited?

FloatingOnTheMed · 22/07/2006 08:55

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YellowFeathers · 22/07/2006 09:00

Hope you find Hippo!

BettySpaghetti · 22/07/2006 09:38

There was an appeal in our local paper this week for a lost cuddly toy -apparently the little 2yr old can't sleep without it . Maybe you could ask your local paper to mention your DDs lost hippo?

I can only imagine how awful it must be. DS has a bedtime toy that we'd be stuffed without! He'd never sleep again!

alibubbles · 22/07/2006 11:51

treacletart, that list is sooo sad! I looked to see if I had any of them as replacements, but alas, no.

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