JULIA: You know what stinks? They took the tire swing down at the playground!
ME: They did?
JULIA: Yeah! I was thinking, maybe it broke, or maybe too many kids were fighting over it so they decided to take it away.
MADELEINE: Or maybe somebody THREW UP on it.
Leave it to Madeleine to come up with the grossest solution.
JULIA: No, because if someone threw up, wouldn't they just CLEAN it?
ME: Maybe it was making too many kids nauseous so they had to take it away.
Apparently Madeleine's throw up suggestion wasn't off-putting enough, because she then decided to take this to an even darker place.
MADELEINE: Maybe an animal touched the tire swing and then the animal, like, DIED and they thought the animal was POISONED so they took it down.
JULIA: Uh, Madeleine. I don't think THAT'S what happened.
I honestly don't understand how Madeleine's brain works. The most logical explanation in her mind is that the tire swing has been tainted by the touch of a poisoned animal?!? Yeah. Makes perfect sense.
I guess that's about what I should expect from a kid who manages to make cupcake eating into an exercise in face-painting:
Oh honey, that is some chocolate cupcake eating loving face! XO
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