Going around in circles....

we went shopping at the Mall, after a failed attempt to go to (a cancelled) story time at the library, for my wife's mother for Mother's Day.

Matt's been to the Mall before, no big deal, right?

So we enter on the ground floor and proceed to take the escalator upstairs.

Matt's been on escalators before, no big deal, right?

Except this was the first time he ever stood on the escalator. We carried him in the past. The first time he went up he tried to climb them like stairs.

Quite clearly he realized that something was up. Perhaps he noticed that he got to the top much faster than he expected. I'm not sure exactly. But at the next opportunity he stood and rode the escalator down.

And then he raced back to the up escalator so he could do it again...

...and then back to the down escalator...

...once again back to the up escalator...

and so on and so forth.