Anyway, Diego is Dora the Explorer's less-obnoxious cousin. He goes out and rescues animals that are in "danger." These aren't your typical animals either, oh no.
Well maybe they are typical to South America, but you don't see too many chinchillas in Utah...
or okapis
or marmosets.
Every once in a while we'd see something normal. Like a red-eyed tree frog.
I was fine with the unusual animals because Rylin already knew cat, dog, sheep, pig, cow, horse, chicken, bird, turtle, elephant, giraffe, goat, fish, mouse, spider, bug, tiger, lion, dragon, dinosaur, snake, frog, monkey, unicorn, pony, seahorse, octopus, duck, bear, dolphin, penguin, zebra, well you get the point. She knew a LOT. She could also make the accompanying noises for these animals.
But then something odd happened. I heard her saying "sea star" over and over. I looked down at what she was pointing to and said, "Oh, that's a starfish!" She promptly corrected me with, "No, Mommy. THAT'S a sea star." Well, color me surprised. Apparently that is their correct name.
Then she started differentiating bears: koala, polar, brown, etc.
She would point out "crocodile" on Evan's jammies.
She told me what the indistinct puppet on the TV was: "otter!"
A blue otter? Really?! All the other animals were their proper color!
On Evan's blanket: "hippo!"
She just kept surprising me.
My favorite came last week. Pointing to an outline of a large cat on a shirt: "puma!"
She's so smart it scares me sometimes...
Oh, and you can bet your biscuits that she was correctly identifying the animals as I posted the pics above. "Chin-chin-uh! Oh-coffee! Mar-set!
