The Ladybug and I are watching Ni Hao Kai-Lan, a kid’s program with a Chinese bent. This particular episode involves the Chinese Lunar Festival, and the Chinese word-of-the-episode is for traditional pastry served with it, the moon-cake, or yuebing. Over and over again during the episode, Kai-Lan and her friends invite us to say moon-cake with her in Chinese, and so over and over again the Ladybug and I oblige:
Yah-bing!
Yah-bing!
Yah-bing!
The Ladybug suddenly grins ear to ear and her eyes squint into little crescent moons, her typical silly face.
“Hey Daddy,” she asks. “What does ABBA eat at the Moon Festival?”
“I don’t know,” I reply.
“Mamma Me-yah-bing!”
