Long-Distance Phone Call with My Daughters

I was out of the state last weekend. On Friday, I got a long-distance phone call from my kids:

C. <whispering>: "Daddy, you are the most specialist daddy in the whole universary [i.e., "universe"]. You are so sweet! I love you! Dad, you're going to think this is strange but the day before yesterday I was so sad without you and couldn't go to sleep, so mommy let me borrow your pillow. It's so big and fluffy.

Me <thinking>: So kinda like me?

Me: "Oh. Did it help?"

C.: "Yes!!"

Me: "I'm so glad."

.....

S. <holding phone but turned away from it, talking to Katie>: "Why do I have the phone? Why am I supposed to talk to dad?"

........

L.: <Chatters a million miles a minute, relates all sorts of informative, detailed info about what they've been up to during my absence.>

I confess, my kids entertain me with the differences in their personalities.