Toothpaste

Logan lay quite still on our bed, gently holding Pepper, one of his new guinea pigs.  He was talking softly but animatedly while the guinea pig chirped and cooed at him.  All of a sudden the conversation stopped. 

“I know!” he quietly exclaimed, “I got toothpaste in my belly button too.”

My wife and I exchanged puzzled looks.  I raised my hand and opened my mouth to ask a hundred questions but I found myself incapable of speaking so I lowered my hand and closed my mouth.

I still don’t understand. 

- 5 November 2017