every five minutes

It certainly seems that every five minutes I turn around and Garrett is doing something new. I feel like I just did similar post, but he's at it again, so I am, too.

In the last few days, I've been surprised by the following new tricks Garrett has learned:

• Crawls, and gets stuck, under chairs
• Found a special new place for his books
• Lines his bath toys along the edge of the tub
• Climbs out of the bathtub (um...yikes!)
• Moves a heavy diaper pail to find, and play with, the electrical socket/cords hidden behind it
• Points to airplanes and watches them fly across the sky
• Stops and opens the microwave (I cannot even begin to tell you how annoying this is getting)
  
• Does the actions to "Popcorn Popping" (well, only the popcorn part, but he uses two hands and participates on cue)
• Gives excellent, though prolonged, goodbye hugs and cries appropriately at parting
• Laughs heartily, shakes his head, and slaps his knees to demonstrate that he thinks something is funny
• Points to what he wants (with one hand, while simultaneously grabbing for it with the other)
• Stands alone for a few seconds and catches his falls when he loses his balance
  
• Leads the way when I hold his hand for a walk around the apartment
• Points to the baby when I show him his box of Gerber rice cereal and ask, "Where's the baby?"
  

And I think that's about it...for now.