Death, taxes and bellybutts....

I have realized the last few days that Chance has been thinking that everyone has a bellybutt.
I am sure that this misconception started when he had his hearing aids and he probably didn't even hear the"on" sound at the end of bellybutton. And since he never had any reason to question that what he had heard was wrong, Chance has apparently been stuck with the notion that everyone has a bellybutt.

I realized when we were at the store looking for clothes that Chance might have a snag in his perception of how you say bellybutton. Chance's little sister was trying on shirts and Chance said' "I see your bellybutt!" He then laughed and laughed because as we all know, bellybuttons are one of the bodies most interesting parts.

"You see her bellybutton?" I asked Chance.

"Yes, I see her bellybutt."

I explained to Chance that it was bellybuttON.

Chance repeated bellybutton back to me and then I heard him say it a few times to himself.

Apparently, we don' talk about bellybuttons enough at our house so we'll have to work that word into our conversations so Chance gets used to it.

Tonight, he told his brother that he could see his bellybutt. We told Chance it was a bellybutton and he quickly said it the right way.

Like I said, we're going to have to work the word bellybutton into our conversations so that Chance gets used to hearing it said right. This could actually be fun. Bellybutton is a fun word. If you need to step up the frequency of using the name of a body part, bellybutton is probably the most amusing.