Why Thomas Is Smarter Than I Am

(1) Because 5 minutes into his first ever preschool interview, the director announced he was a genius. I had never seen Thomas hold a crayon such as he did on that day.
Like a 5 year old would, the director said.
Highly unusual for a 1 year old. I nodded solemnly and in agreement.

Thomas sat in front of his paper and selected his crayons and began to draw. He drew lines, he drew squigglies, he drew zig-zags, up-downs, and near circles. He tried out different colors; he tried out different ends of the crayon.
When told to stop drawing on the table, he immediately returned to the paper.

(2) Because he sees Ma-Moons (aka Balloons) wherever he goes.

Thomas holds up his toy stethoscope by the ear parts and declares 'ma-moon!'.
(Get it? the ear parts , when touching each other, form the "balloon" and the dangly part that goes on your chest is the balloon's "string")

Thomas places a Magneto ball on top of two other Magneto sticks and declares 'ma-moon!'.

I draw a cat face on a piece of paper for him. Whiskers, ears, everything. Thomas looks at it, draws a single line from the bottom of the cat's face down to the edge of the paper. Thomas declares 'ma-moon!'.

(3) Because he has a fantastic tummy, and when he walks he always leads with it.

(4) Because he can slam dunk a toy basketball into our 'dishdrawer' dishwasher.
Impressive, if also slightly annoying.