The boy can open doors...

It first happened a couple of days ago. We were staying at my parents' house for a couple of days, and, as per usual, I had closed the doors to the rooms Justin should stay out of. When I went to find out where he escaped to, and found him sitting at the computer in a room I had thought I'd closed a door to, I thought to myself, 'hmmm... better double check that you close this door'. I mean, it dawn on me for a second that maybe he had opened the door, but I blew it off. He tries doors all the time, moving them this way and that, and then concludes that they are indeed, 'locked.' So, I figured either I didn't close the door properly, or someone else had opened it in the meantime - that someone else not being the almost 2.5-year old boy of mine.

That evening Justin was put to the test, as I kept trying to keep him out of the room with the computer in it, also the room he would eventually go to bed in, he kept letting himself into it.

When I got up the next morning, I wondered what he'd do once he woke-up. We had been there for a couple of nights, and he had woken up saying what he normally says upon waking, "Mommy? Mommy?" or "snack?" (the latter only if I am laying right beside him, although the former still usually precedes it).
I was having breakfast with my parents in their kitchen, and my dad was asking about how his grandson was doing, and who should appear but the little guy himself!!! Now, I knew my boy was smart, but this stunned me. Not only did he not cry/ask for me, but he did not knock on the door (which he sometimes resorts to at home, either when playing or when we don't respond to his calling quickly enough). Instead, my little boy - obviously not a baby anymore - successfully got down from the 'big bed' (he usually sleeps on a mattress on the floor), opened the door, and came straight to where the breakfast is found!!!

To put still more amazement into this whole situation, he then promptly asked for a 'cupcake' while peering onto all the counters and checking out what we were eating. He had not forgotten that Granny had brought cupcakes home the night before, and he was told that (as it was close to bedtime), he could not have one then, but could tomorrow.
So, as the boy stunned me that morning, what else was I to do but give him what he requested? We'd be leaving for our own home within a couple of hours, so while I had hoped he'd forget about the cupcake, I gathered there was no better time for it then when he had already stunned me with his grown-up abilities. He got to have the cupcake for breakfast.

So, now we are back home. And... I bought cupcakes today for Valentine's Day. The boy has continued to demonstrate his newly-learned abilities for opening doors -- in anticipating that this skill would be learned in the near-future, I had put child-proof 'handles' on the doorknobs of doors I didn't want to find out 'too late' that he could open (ie: doors to outside, and out of his room). While I get up from the floor of the living room to open the door to his room so he can access more toys, I find I am too late - he has already opened it, and is helping himself to whichever toys he wants!!!
Now the question remains, will he request a cupcake for breakfast tomorrow morning? Is a cupcake acceptable for breakfast on Valentine's Day? I think I'll stay clear of that happening, should he then start to expect cupcakes as 'normal' and 'acceptable' foods for breakfast.

So, he has reached yet another milestone. Even less is safe in our house!!!
I wonder what the next milestone will be, but hopefully he gives me enough time to recover from this one first - although frequent/regular use of the potty would be a welcome milestone!!! ;-)
(hint, hint) ;-)