I just....want.....my hippo!!!!

Meredith woke up crying at 3 in the morning the other night, and she got her daddy to come comfort her. She was wandering down the hall looking for her hippo. Her hippo.....we found this little pink stuffed cow when I was cleaning out the playroom and she fell in love, so it goes everywhere with us now, and she thinks it's a hippo. So when she couldn't find it when she woke up, she went to Daddy and said, "I just....want....my hippo, Daddy!" So being the great Daddy that he is, at 3 a.m., he went downstairs on a hippo search. He was looking for about a half hour, and couldn't find the hippo anywhere. So we got her calmed down with a drink and back to sleep, and the next morning, still no sign of the hippo. Well, then Melanie comes downstairs, asks us what we are looking for, and then goes, "Oh. I put it in my purse last night!"