More About the Purple Elastic

So, Madeleine got called out for talking to her fork at dinner this evening, which gave us a segway into what exactly she goes with the purple elastic while she's pooping on the potty.

MADELEINE: (dropping her fork) ARGH!  (retrieving it from the floor) FORK!! NEVER do that AGAIN! (resuming her eating, and dropping her fork again) ARGH!!  FORK!
ETHAN: I thought you told your fork never to do that again.
JULIA: (disdainful) Madeleine.  Do you know that your fork isn't ALIVE?
ME: Well, Madeleine plays with a purple elastic and talks to it while she poops, so I don't think she even takes the matter of whether an object is alive or not into concern.
JULIA: Yeah.  Madeleine, today when you were in the bathroom, I overheard "Fine, then LEAVE, sister Alaska."  "Ugh.  WHY?"
MADELEINE: Because Julia.  Here's what was happening.  So, McKenna and Alaska find this MIRROR, and...Alaska dives into the mirror, and McKenna dives into the mirror too, to save her younger sister, and they end up...Julia??  Remember when we went to that NAIL SALON with Auntie Shannon?
JULIA: Venus Nails?
MADELEINE: Yeah.  That's where they ended up.
ME: Wait a minute.  McKenna and Alaska, the pencils?
MADELEINE: (in total seriousness) Yes.
ME: You were playing with your pencils on the potty?
MADELEINE: Uh, Mama.  They're pencils that TURNED INTO elastics.
ME: Oh.  And they ended up at Venus Nails?
MADELEINE: Yes.  And...everyone in Venus Nails is EVIL, and they notice that they're elastics, instead of pencils.

Okay.  Got it. 

Suddenly, the idea that all those years ago, Julia named the barn door on her Little People House "Mister Cause Cause" (the inspiration for this blog!)  doesn't seem that strange.