ME: Madeleine, I love what you're drawing!
MADELEINE: (brightly) You're WELCOME! Because...a little girl is trying to get a LADDER.
In case that doesn't make as ABSOLUTELY CLEAR sense to you as it made to me, I'll explain: Madeleine's picture is of a ladder leading to a "twisty-turny" green slide. If you look very carefully, you can see that there's a person drawn on the ladder.
MADELEINE: Um...Leecy.
Leecy later turned into Cece, as Madeleine, just like her big sister, began pretend-talking the figure in her drawing. She also added some extraneous characters who do not appear in the picture.
CECE'S FAMILY: Cece! Cece! Is that YOU?
CECE: I'm wearing a dress! Do you know me?
CECE'S FAMILY: Yes! I really DO know you!
CECE: (joyously) That is ME, Mommy! That is ME, Daddy! That is ME, Big Sister!
Sadly, despite the happy reunion, Cece's story does not have an uplifting ending.
ME: So, Madeleine, whatever happened with Cece and the slide? Did she wind up going down it?
MADELEINE: Um, no, she didn't NEVER go down it.
ME: But why not?
MADELEINE: Because! It was getting TOO crumby. Because somebody was EATING on the slide, and it got some CRUMBS on it.
ME: Oh, boy. So then what happened?
MADELEINE: Um, she didn't climb down EVER.
So there ends the unfortunate story of Cece, formerly known as Leecy, who to this day remains stuck in limbo on the ladder of the slide, unable to slide down because it's too crumby, and unable to climb down because she didn't do that EVER.
I think Madeleine is going to be the noir novelist of the family. Her goth art will certainly be a nice companion to her depressing stories.
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