The Little Known Use for Your Belly Button

Since she was tiny, Whitney has been obsessed with all things baby. This has only been exaggerated by talk of the baby now coming to our house. She knows that there is a baby in my tummy and will comment several times a day that there's a baby in her tummy, too.

Last night, while we were eating dinner, Whitney decided that she didn't want to eat what was served. The rule at our house is that you don't have to eat if you don't feel like it, but you need to stay at the table with the rest of us until dinner is over. At one point, Ryan was trying to convince Whitney to just taste her rice. Since Whitney had just mentioned the baby in her tummy, Ryan decided to make a play on Whitney's assumption. He said, "Whitney, you need to feed the baby in your tummy so it can grow." A few seconds later, we realized that Whitney was indeed trying to feed the baby by spooning small amounts of food into her belly button. We tried suggesting she put it in her mouth so it would eventually get to her baby, but she wouldn't have any of that trickery. Instead the belly button dinner sufficed and Whitney soon after pronounced herself done.