lost

We spent an hour and a half tonight looking for Froggy. I spent an hour earlier today looking for him. Dennis has stashed him somewhere, and though I think this somewhere is in his room, we cleaned the whole thing tonight without finding a magenta, orange, and teal stuffed amphibian. Well, we found two that fit that description, the little one that Dennis calls Car Froggy and the replacement one that looks so new that Dennis won't have anything to do with him, but we never found actual Froggy. He napped today without Froggy and didn't give me any grief about it, and tonight we were looking so long that Dennis went on to bed. He picked up the newer Froggy and said "Here he is, see Froggy? Ribbit, ribbit". He went to sleep just fine. We agonized for quite a while over where he could have stuffed him, but we eventually gave up and came to bed as well! We've checked all the drawers and cupboards and appliances we can think of, but we still didn't find him. While Dennis and David don't seem to be all that upset, my heart kind of hurts to think that we may have lost such a treasure. We know he hasn't left our house. Maybe he'll turn up. Maybe Dennis is outgrowing his dependence on Froggy. Maybe a Velveteen Rabbit event happened here and he became real and hopped away (and hopefully made it past the cat)--he's certainly been loved enough. He is missed tonight, at least by me!