It's all in what you watch

Sometimes I wonder what the other 4 year olds are watching. Elizabeth prefers Animal Planet over the traditional shows found on PBS or Noggin. She cannot recite her ABC's but knows the appropriate use of words like documentary, endangered species, carnivore, and habitat.
She became very excited yesterday when I informed her that she would be learning about arctic animals in preschool this week. She told me she needed to explain to her class how polar bears don't have enough ice to live on and are drowning in the water. Then she informed me that her classmates probably don't know the difference between emperor penguins and chin straps (neither do I for that matter).

I hope her teacher survives. When I dropped her off this morning, she informed her teacher that she had watched a documentary on wolves over the weekend and that wolves often sniff each others butts, which she found very amusing. She felt inclined to impart even more information when she entered the classroom. Penguins, she explained are unusual because the father takes care of the egg. No one really cared but she seemed satisfied that she'd provided a public service.
Some of classmates had commented on the wind this morning, to which her teacher added that the wind was howling like a wolf. (Wow, did she set herself up for this one. ) "Actually," Elizabeth explained, " wolves howl much louder than the wind. It sounds like this, "auwwwlll" (very loudly).

I left and heard her howling as I walked down the hall; petite, bright eyed, girl in a pink My Little Pony hoodie, doing her best howl, and the moon isn't even full yet.