The Tom-inator, or... Tom-Kat

He's got the glasses, the looks (if a Mommy may say so), and the pants (or lack of them).

Can't you just see him using those pegs in his left hand as a microphone?
Can't you just hear him singing "Old Time Rock 'n Roll"?

Or delivering a line like: "I'll be back" in an Austrian accent?

Let's talk about Tommy. He seems to be a guy's guy. Evidence:

• He loves to throw things. He started "throwing" by basically dunking everything backwards behind his head. But in the last few weeks, he has progressed--he now throws relatively normally (with almost no teaching from me, mind you), and most of the things he throws actually go forward in a relatively straight line.
  
  And it's also fun because he has shown almost no interest in catching. You can bounce soft things off him all day and he'll just run and pick them up.
  He also has been showing his basketball aptitude; he loves to put things "in"--he is even a help when cleaning up.
  
  
• Thomas has two main modes of communicating. One involves long strings of "dah dah du du di di dah dah doo da di du". And I mean monologues. And they are loud.
  The other method is even better--he growls. Thomas growls at everything and everyone. The growling is not generally related to anger; I think he just likes the sound of it.
  
  
• Thomas loves to build. He spends a lot of time stacking cups, building peg towers, and using the Mega blocks.
  
  Jack loves to knock down. And this is where Thomas shines: when he sees Jack coming, Thomas will look right at him and deliver an extremely forceful, babble-filled invective full of 'd' sounds (see previous point) . Of course Jack keeps coming. Then Thomas will growl. That doesn't usually work either. Cue the Big fight.
  
  Until today, that is. Today, Thomas tried a new strategy: the scorched-earth policy.
  Just as Jack was reaching for his tower, Thomas knocked it down himself. Very Sun Tzu, eh, to sort that all out before the age of 2? As Gwammy would say: "clearly, he's a genius".