“Daddy, am I in trouble?”

“No, ma’am.

You are absolutely not in trouble.”

And then Wren said the thing that is the entire reason any of this went anywhere, and she said it the way children say the thing that has been sitting on top of them, which is flatly and out of order and in the middle of something else.

“I was on the ground for a really long time.

I kept yelling for Mommy.