Attention Span

CJ: (after searching the house and back yard) Mom, is my dad still here?
Me: No babe, he had to go home this morning, remember?
CJ: (lump welling in his throat) Are you sure? Maybe he’s just at the store.
Me: No, honey, he is back at his house now.
CJ: (through mounting tears) Well I don’t want him to be gone. I just miss him.
Me: I know sweetie.
CJ: (crying and staring out the window) I’m just going to stay like this with my head glued to the window until he comes back. I don’t care how many days and nights it takes.
Me: OK baby.
CJ: (almost exactly one minute into window protest) Mom, can I play the iPod?