Gavin Becomes the Teacher.

Driving the carpool this morning, one of the boys gently gets into the car holding an ocean diorama. I smile and say "That ocean diorama is cool."

I am immediately corrected by the boy.  "It's an ocean habitat."  "Ohhh....a diorama of an ocean habitat.  It makes me want to go to the ocean.  You did a great job."

He looks into my eyes and adds with sincerity "My mom says you need to drive carefully so it doesn't get messed up."  I nod seriously back at him.  "Okay, I will!"

Gavin begins examining it.  "That's the coolest ocean bionome I have ever seen."  The boy is silent.  I can tell he doesn't know what that word means, and Gavin says it so casually that we are all wondering if bionome is a real word.

"A what?" I say.  (Since an incident on the play ground where he described waving his arms in the air, as "using his karate on a boy named Landon"  we've been trying to keep Gavin's descriptions more accurate and less colorful.

"Yeah mom." He says with enthusiasm   "A bionome is a climate or environment.  In Minecraft (the source of all power and knowledge), they have bionome jungles and deserts. 

"Huh.." I say quickly Googleing the word bionome.

"A major regional or global biotic community, such as a grassland or desert, characterized chiefly by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate."

I stand corrected.  That is a cool bionome.  Thanks for the new word Gavin!