Alex has gone to sleep with his stuffed Froggy every night of his life.
Until tonight. Because we cannot find Froggy anywhere.
Which means that D and I have been looking in every corner and crevice of our house for the last hour.
And I’ve never felt like more of a crazy woman.
And I can’t think of where to look next.
Any suggestions?
Update: Froggy has been located. He was behind the couch where we’d looked, oh, sixty four times. Give or take a ten. And he’s now in the bed where he rightly belongs. :-)
My dd likes to put things in bags … so whenever something goes missing, we have to dump out about 15 bags and look for the item!
Aside from that, my dh lost his wallet behind a booster seat at our kitchen table once … just enough room for it to get stuck there, but not enough room for us to think it could! Of course we found it after he got a new license, cancelled the credit cards, etc, etc!
Good luck in the great frog hunt!
I understand. We lost my son’s favorite blanket once. It was just totally gone (I think we left it in a store somewhere because he was never without it.) We ran right out and bought one just like it – but of course it just wasn’t the same. We had a couple of very sad nights.
OK – I’m just throwing this out there….. do you think Froggy was a victim of all the house-cleaning-for-house-selling mayhem? Hmmm?
Perhaps Froggy was a vaccuum victimee or perhaps he succummed to the Pine-Sol fumes.
Just throwing it out there.
:-)
Oh, I just read your update. Good news!
Oh, the horror! My heart stops a second when I think about even the remote possibility of losing one of the boys’ blankets! I’m pretty sure we’d have to go to family counseling:)
Glad you found him.
Oh, and your comment on my post didn’t show up until TONIGHT, and it wasn’t on Haloscan, only on Blogger. What is that all about? Why does Haloscan hate me?
We once left my son’s stuffed bunny in a hotel on our to vacation. Which means we had to handle the whole vacation WITHOUT the bunny, not knowing if Bunny had survived the clutches of the hotel housekeepers. LOOOOONG vacation, I’m telling you. Thankfully Bunny survived.
When my daughter’s lamb disappears (the one we are so attached to, that we have a identical backup for when just such an event happens), invariably, it’s in my closet with my shoes that she has been trying on. :)
When I realized my daughter’s stuffed “Wormy” was one thing we never wanted to loose (and that he would need a lot of washing) we went in search of an identical one. I had to resort to ebay since they didn’t make the same one any more. It’s been a life-saver on those nights when Wormy was nowhere to be found and everyone really needed to go to bed.
Man, I know exactly what you were going through. Jessica still has a white teddy bear named Clyde that she slept with every night of her life up until just recently. He still has a place of honor on her bed. She lost him once and I would have sworn he wasn’t in this apartment, but he turned up between the mattress and the wall at the head of her bed, wedged just so he couldn’t be seen from above and didn’t fall to the floor. Talk about wailing and gnashing of teeth! Me and Jessica both, LOL! ;-)
Glad you found Froggy. Now everyone can have a quiet night’s sleep. :-)
BTW: Did you make the crockpot dressing??
When my son was younger I would always check the refridgerator & pantry first!
Oh–I’m so glad you found him. . .WHEW!!!!! My son had “George”–which is a Curious George I picked up at Kohl’s for $5 during one of their Kohl’s Cares campaigns. I bought 5–and gave two sets to two friends who had twins. Thad LOVES George–but they don’t have them anymore. . .and I have SERIOUSLY considered asking both friends if their sons are so attached that they can’t bear to part with atleast one George so I can have a back up. . .
I know this feeling of desperation well. Except in our house, it was always Lambie that went around getting lost at the most innopportune times.
We’ve had times where we were both out in the backyard, in the pitch dark with flashlights, or driving 25 miles or more in one direction to go retrieve a certain bunny or dinosaur. Easier to drive than go without sleep the entire night. Glad you located him.
Oh I am feeling your pain. I’m so glad y’all found him.
I think every parent does this sooner or later. We left Mr. Monkey behind in the condo we rented in Florida last year which we realized when we got home and tried to put him to bed. I spent about $45 to have another one one replaced (one that originally cost about $3 at TJMaxx) and overnighted (because he of course was now discontinued)and then we contacted the condo owner who sent out a search and rescue and a few weeks later he came back in the mail. It was touch and go there for a while.
Whenever my 3-year old misplaces a favorite toy, we pretend were pirates and go on a treasure hunt. And we almost always find the missing favorite toy under the couch, behind the TV orof all placesinside his toy box.
Mike
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You know, I actually went on eBay once to purchase a replacement toy. Oh, the things we moms do…
I was about to say “froggy wenta courtin'” then I read the update. WHEW!! Have been out of the loop- my hubby had surgery.
I soooo understand. In our house it’s hippo and I also went on ebay to get another one. The only problem is the new one is soooo much cleaner and softer than the old one and I didn’t hide it well enough that my daughter saw it. So now she has new hippo and old hippo. If new hippo is missing no problem but if old hippo is missing it’s a huge deal. Guess he is just not replacable. Glad you found froggie
Some times I am soo thankfully that my kids didn’t every get really attatched to one toy. But my son will get attatched to a new toy every other week or so and heaven help us all if it gets lost. I feel your pain. Congrats on finding Froggy
My sister and I once looked for one and one-half hour for one croc for her 2 year old son. It was behind a door that we had walked by 64 times. I get it.
My daughter is super attached to two blankies – a bunny and kitty. They both look like road kill because they’re stuffed animals that are divided by blankies. The kitty is particularly tough-looking, having not handled the dryer too well! We do have a spare bunny, since that was the one my daughter got attached to first. Then we lost it at the mall. We ordered two new bunnies and in the meantime, she latched on to the kitty. Now, they both have to go EVERYWHERE with her.
Once I found the kitty blankie in the pantry. She’d traded it for fruit snacks.
My older son has a blue blankie which still has a spell-like hold on him even though he’s five. Fortunately, we’d been given several of them, and then I cut them in half, so he has plenty of spares.
But man, the search for a lost lovey is the worst!
I remember once when we lost my oldest son’s animal, Lambie. It was sooo sad and we never found him!!