More Friends

Charlie just about broke my heart when I put him to bed this evening; as I was kissing him goodnight he said, "Mom -- " (for some reason we are Mom and Dad now, not Mommy and Daddy) "-- I need more friends."
"Why?" I asked, taken aback.
"Because I miss my best friend Theo," he explained. Theo only goes to daycare three days a week now, but poor Charlie looks for him every day.
My poor kiddo...