Joe is about halfway through his trip to Alaska this year - he's been gone about two and a half weeks so far. He and his crew were able to make it out to the remote site, so now calls are a bit less frequent, and a little more fuzzy, on the satellite phone. Petra loves talking on the phone either way (more like listening), and will now ask for the phone anytime she sees me talking on it. She loves to listen to her dad when he calls, and she'll even respond to him playing peekaboo with her or asking how big she is.
You have to wonder how her brain processes the fact that she can hear him, but can't see him. And she seems to think he can see her. It's very sweet.
