We were in Homebase today and after getting the stuff that we needed, Nora decided to sit on one of the display sofa. Jules told her to follow us to the cashier and called her monkey, to which she replied

‘I’m NOT a monkey…’

Which I thought was fair enough… and then she continued.

‘I’m a baboon!’

That got me giggling!

One of the cbeebies stuff that I really enjoy watching with her is Tinga Tinga Tales. It’s just stories of the animals in Africa… why elephant has a trunk, why crabs walk sideways, why snakes don’t have legs, why zebras have stripes… you get the idea. The last episode I watched with her was weeks ago on why baboons have a bare bottom.

Baboon in the story likes to play tricks and the animals keep calling him a naughty/cheeky/mean monkey… and the phrase the baboon used was of course

‘I’m NOT a monkey, I’m a baboon’

But somehow it’s funnier when Nora says it than the baboon in the story itself