Australia 2009: The case of the missing "pussy cat"

Little Rio has two little toys that he has to sleep with.. a little white hand puppet cat and a little white teddy bear.. He is too young to give them names yet, so he just called them "pussy cat" and "teddy bear".. :)

A few nights ago, when he was about to go to bed we realized that his "pussy cat" is missing!! And he refuses to sleep without it..

So the three of us (Dean, Voone and me) went all over the house searching for it.. went into his bedroom, his elder brother Cody's bedroom, the living room, the bathroom, the kitchen, the playroom, the family car, the backyard... and still we couldn't find it.. Voone decided to ask Cody if he had noticed whether his little brother had brought the "pussy cat" into the car and went to the nearby playground earlier.. While Dean decided to ask little Rio if he remember where he kept his "pussy cat".. as Voone went to the car to look for the toy cat again, Dean called out from Rio's bedroom, saying "We found it!"..

It seemed that little Rio had stuffed his "pussy cat" in his socks drawers and covered by another toy, a finger puppet bat! No wonder no one found it.. :) and to top off this little "search and rescue mission", little Rio mumbled rather loudly, "Sorry..", as if he knew he had made all of us waste our energy.. we can't help but to smile when we heard it..

Ah.. Kids... :) :) :)