oompah oompah!

the bean has been learning a few new songs* from her ye ye and nai nai. one of the early ones that she used to like she has now decided she doesn't. that was "we're riding along on the crest of the wave/ and the sun is in the sky/ 2-3-4/ keeping our eyes on the distant horizon/ look out for passersby..." and she used to like doing the actions to the words, albeit a half second later. then recently everytime we tried to sing it in the car she would stick her fingers in her ears and say, "no no no. not that one."

her latest favourite is "gingangoolygoolygooly whatcha gingangoo gingangoo". on our recent hunter valley holiday, to please her, we had to sing it several times in a row as we headed back to the cottage from a day's wine-tasting. she particularly liked the "oompah!" with raised fist that her ye ye does to punctuate the end of the song.

although we're back home now, tonight, during bathtime, knowing how much the bean likes the song her nai nai decided to sing it to her. and when she got to the end, before any prompting, the bean raised her left fist and shouted "oompah!", giggling hysterically after she did it.

later on, her nai nai told me that we'd need to watch it as we wouldn't be able to put anything past the bean.

*these are very very old cub scouts' songs.