Gabriel the techie two year old

This morning after breakfast the first thing Gabriel wanted to do (which is not uncommon) is go downstairs and watch a "choo choo mwie" as he says it. Knowing that he would probably want to watch several more movies throughout the day since it is always a battle, I purposefully put on a 35 minute Thomas video rather than an hour long one. About 45 minutes later, I realized that Gabriel was still watching a Thomas video and was rather perplexed, but thought that perhaps the video I had put in may not have been in the right box. About 10 minutes after I left to go shopping (all by myself for once!) Mike called and asked me which video I had put in for Gabriel. Apparently Gabriel had finished the one I had put in and put it on the floor and then helped himself to starting another, longer, Thomas movie since the one I had given him was obviously too short! I knew that he liked to push buttons on the VCR, but I didn't realize he had figured out exactly how to use it by himself!