Belly Buttons: necessity or purely asthetic?

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Ridge was hyper today and couldn't stop talking. He blurted out, while examining his stomach, "Mommy, what would my tummy look like without a belly buton? Can you remove a belly button?"

My answer was, "Smooth", but I like my friend Amy's answer better. She said, "tell him that if it wasn't there, all the stuff inside would come oozing out. After all, something has to hold it in."

Nice.