Tang Poems, Gingerbread Man & Orangutan tails

Ah Mah has been trying to teach you this Tang poem for a couple of days now.

静夜思 - 李白
床前明月光 ，
疑是地上霜 。
举头望明月 ，
低头思故乡 。

She was quite successful in getting you to recite this other one...

春眠 - 孟浩然
春眠不觉晓，
处处闻啼鸟。
夜来风雨声，
花落知多少。

albeit with some help in between. But with Li Bai's 'Thought at night', you'd only go "hm" after each phrase. On one occasion, you asked her, "What 举头,低头?" and then went "hm" again when she explained it to you.

After yet another one of her failed attempts, I asked you, "YY, 床什么?" Much to our surprise, you started reciting the poem, word for word, without any prompts in between.

Arh! So, you were listening huh?

Did this quiz on learning styles a while ago and the results indicated that you were a strong auditory learner. Pretty true.

Gingerbread Man

Read you the story of the Gingerbread Man a few times now. Bought you one from the supermarket yesterday. He was wrapped in a plastic bag tied with a nice checked ribbon. Had a nice smiley white frosted face & three colorful chocolate buttons.

"Mummy open!"
~"YY want to eat the Gingerbread man?"
"NO!!!"
~"Mummy eat?"
"NO!!!"
~" Then don't open it. The ants will eat him up!"
"???"

The Gingerbread man stayed in the plastic bag. Safe.

Tails

"O-ang-u-tan!"
"Huh?"
"O-an-utan!"
"Orh, Orangutans!"
"hm"
"YY saw Orangutans in the zoo right?"
"hm"
"YY, Orangutans got tails?"
"Yes"
"YY got tail?"
"No"
"hmmmm.... Birds got tails?"
"Yes"
"Fish got tails?"
"Yes"
"Polar bears got tails?"
"No"
"Ants got tails?"
"No"

Pretty impressive and then....

"Snakes got tails?"
"No"
"Yes, Snakes got tails.... Butterflies got tails?"
"Yes"
"No, butterflies got no tails...."

It went downhill from here...but the one that you got consistently correct was the fact that you didn't have a tail. Hhahhahhahaa!!!