missing missy

the biggest drama we have had in a long while began on sunday night when soph placed her 2 year old and much much loved stuffed puppy dog missy on top of her lamp and managed to melt her eye and burn the fur off one side of her face. thank god she didn't burn the house down. i have never seen her so distraught; not just crying, sobbing and heartbroken. so needlss to say i have spent the past two days trying to find a replacement dog (no luck) but manging to find (in a florist shop in Kew of all places), the 'male' version of the same dog. this dog-same company-has a blue bow, and blue foot pads instead of missy's pink bow and pink foot pads. so that dog is hopfully in the post to us as we speak. and now i have just found a doll hospital in geelong who think they'll be able to make the alterations of pink to blue. and i have convinced soph thatmissy needs to go into hospital for a few days to get all better. so now i just have to track down some pink gingham that passes muster, deliver the dogs, and then hope that the reinvented Missy passes muster with a cannier than is helpful child...i am sure tis is making me a better person but i am not entirely sure how....