She Don't Need No Education

Anna started two new classes at the Children's Museum today. One is called "Space Oddities" and the other is "Crazy Chemistry".
I personally was very excited about these classes.
I have talked to her about them for weeks. After class today I excitedly tried to pump her for details about what she had learned. I was sure that my three year old would come home and eagerly share with me the wonders of constellations and nebulae, baking soda and vinegar.
But try as I may, details were not forthcoming.

Until, that is, I had just finished tucking her into bed and said good night, and she rolled over, looked at me thoughtfully and asked

"Mommy, is there chemistry in space?"

ha ha ha ha ha.
And the depressing part is, I was already stumped.

And then as if I wasn't on precarious enough scientific footing, here are a few more things that she evidently had been wondering about since class ended at 5PM:
- Why can't we see our galaxy?
- Who put the continents in all the right spots?
- Who was on our planet before people?
- What is the butterfly that lights up in space called?

To which I answered, respectively, something along the lines of 'because we're in it, they just floated there, dinosaurs, and we'll look it up tomorrow...'

Earlier in the evening, Daddy had asked her about her chemistry class. She told him she learned about states.
So he said, "Oh! You mean solids, liquids, and gasses."
She looked at him like he was crazy and told him no, actually states are in countries.

(And evidently she knew this for sure because they had just gone over it in chemistry class.
I guess.)