Having them lined up like this makes them easier to count. You've got four rows of meebs, with 3 meebs in each row. So all together that's 4 times 3, which equals 12. From where you're standing you ...

Oh, look! There’s some thing sleeping in the trees! Common nouns are the names of things, that’s people, places or objects, while a proper noun is the name of a particular person, place or thing.