I've always thought that people cant have it all. You could be gorgeous and dumb, not quite so crash hot and incredibly intelligent, brilliant at sports and thick as anything.
I believe people all have strengths and weaknesses, and as parents I guess its our job to recognise these and develop and encourage the good things and the not so great things?
One boy in my MG is a little slower physically. He's not picking up the crawling thing at all even though he is 9 months, but you should see the kid with toys. He will study something until he can figure out how it works, it is amazing to watch!!! I have a chime rattle, and he didn't just shake it like the other babies - he gently rocked it to hear each individual noise, then would shake it quickly, then go back to slowly doing it.
I swear that kid will be an engineer!!!

I'm sure Tommy will have amazing strengths in one area - perhaps he will be a linguist, and because he hasn't goto to the talking stage yet - you haven't realised his true strengths!!

Fi