One of Dom's latest obsessions is NASCAR. He memorizes track information, driver stats, series standings and sponsor information. I guess it's his version of the baseball geeks who memorize all the stats on their favorite players. I gave Domino a couple of special NASCAR issue magazines for his birthday and he'll spend an hour sitting on the toilet studying every little nugget of information. It's really cute and quite odd simultaneously.
His other obsession is the solar system. Not quite sure how that one started but he's a little astronomer at heart. He can spout off bits of trivia about the direction different planets spin, the gravitational pull, the number of moons, distance from the sun, type of gases, temperature and such. At first I thought he was just making stuff up off the top of his head, and then I googled his factoid. Imagine my surprise to find that Neptune is indeed about 2.8 billion miles from the sun. Again, it's really cute and odd simultaneously.
Each week the kids in his class are sent down to the school library and encouraged to pick out a book of their own choice. For a while, Domino was picking out books that we already own, but the past few weeks he has found the solar system section of books and I have been treated to a wonderful series of books about different planets. I don't really remember much about the solar system from my own education so I am learning a lot as we sit together and read.Last night we sat down to read a book about Jupiter. We got to the section about the moons of Jupiter and I paused when I got to the names. Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa don't just flow off the tongue for me. In my moment of silence as I studied the word Ganymede and decided my best guess, Domino announced "It's pronounced GAN-uh-meed". "Thanks Bud" and I kept reading. Got to Callisto and I pronounced it "Kuh-list-OH" and he said "Mom, it's Call-EE-stow". "I knew that..."
I totally didn't.
The teacher has now become the student.
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