Watch These Mischievous Toddler Twins Have An Adorable All-Night Slumber Party While They Should Be Sleeping
Fact: Toddlers are rambunctious. Another fact: Once they figure out how to escape from the confines of their cribs, all bedtime bets are off.
That's the lesson one New York couple learned when they set up a nanny cam to spy on their twin sons. According to Today, Jonathan Balkin and his wife Susana were first tipped off that something might be amiss with their kids' sleeping schedules when they began hearing "strange noises" coming from the bedroom shared by their 2-year-old twins, Andrew and Ryan. "We heard a whole bunch of giggling, so we started spying on them," Balkin said.
The parents set up a Nest home monitoring system to figure out what trouble the kids were getting up to (or if they were maybe dealing with a Poltergeist-style haunting). What the Balkins wound up seeing was a hilarious soon-to-be viral video of their twins demonstrating some impressive (and adorable) escape artist skills.
The time-lapse nighttime footage (accompanied by appropriately zany circus music) was first posted by Balkin and later shared by FOX 46 Charlotte, amassing over 55 million views on Facebook. The kids don't do anything dangerous – they just work off a ton of excess energy, climbing in and out of their side-by-side cribs to arrange and re-arrange pillows and couch cushions, practicing flips and tumbles like they're at a personal after-hours Gymboree class.
The funniest part is watching the boys getting back out of their cribs over and over again to keep playing after their exasperated parents break up the party to tuck them back in and clean up the room - twice. Also when they just take a few breaks from playing to chill on their little sofa and (I'd imagine) have a heart-to-heart about the stresses of modern day toddler-life.
Balkin explained during the family's Monday morning Today show appearance that the twins usually go down for the night between 7:30 and 8:00 p.m. But on this particular night, they kept up their two-man slumber party until well after 10:00. The parents also tried swapping the cribs for beds but said the twins "ended up going in and out all night."
That's one obvious benefit of having a twin - a live-in BFF to hang out with, 24/7, sleep-deprived parents be damned! Another is the seemingly endless capacity for pulling off amazing twin pranks.
(h/t Mashable)
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