"I KNOW!"

On average I would say 8 times an hour. Times 24 hours in a day.

Granted I know I need to account for the time sleeping, but frequently that is when Mckenna wakes up and says it another 8 times. In addition I hear it frequently at bedtime, and in the morning, and in the car, and when they are in trouble, and when they are sad, or silly, or hungry. There are often large blocks of time when I don't hear it at all, but when the thought process begins it is usually repeated...over and over and over and over. So 8x24 is 192, multiplied by approximately 125 days is 24,000.

That is the number of times I estimate that I will hear during this deployment one of my girls say, "I want my Daddy."

I know. I get it.