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Bunny failed to make it home from an outing several weeks ago. His loss went unnoticed until bedtime, by which point it was impossible to effectively identify where he went missing.

To make matters worse, he went missing on a Friday which meant the usual places to search were closed for the weekend. Despite our best attempts, we were unable to locate him the following Monday (and putting up flyers in the most likely places has yielded nothing) and we have had to concede that he has been lost.

Alphie has taken it incredibly well, with only momentary bouts of sadness and longing. She pines for him quietly, though, and his absence sits close to her heart. She recently colored this page in a coloring book, which is the first drawing of Bunny she has ever felt compelled to draw:

Bunny spent the night in Alphie’s cubby at school, safe and warm from the storm (though perhaps lonely).

Bunny is missing.

Bunny is missing on a dark and stormy might.

Alphie’s last memory of bunny is that she put him under her coat to keep him dry as we walked to the car after school today.

Bunny is not in the house, and is not in the car.

Bunny was not identified as missing until bedtime, when Alphie realized she was alone in a big, scary, dark and stormy world.

Dad has been beseeched to find bunny, but despite Dad’s best effort, bunny cannot be found.

Although it has stopped raining, the evening is darker and stormier than it was earlier.