Back in June, we babysat my nephew for 5 hours so my sister could do normal human things… The kinds of things you don’t do when you have two boys under the age of 5, I imagine. Things like sleeping, and staring at the wall for a few uninterrupted minutes.

Dear audience, a 4.8 year old is hard work. We made a few science experiments for him, and this video is the result of the volcano we engineered. This video was made from part 1 of the volcano explosion, and part two when I cut in closer to get the detail of the bubbles.

Each time we did this, X-man was all “I wanna do it again!” Towards the end, I said “Welcome to year four…. of life.” Because the whole day was like that. Case in point: After the seventeenth time alternatively hiding/seeking, I could have been passed out from exhaustion on the living room floor and he’d be all like “I wanna do it aaaagain!”

I have no idea how my sister does this.

But wow, isn’t he adorable? It’s totally worth it.