This baby may look cute, but in truth, he’s a master of deceit. Then his mother caught him red-handed.
Aww, look at the baby sleeping soundly. Or is he?
Benjamin was only a couple of months old. But he was already learning how to trick his mom. Sometimes, he’d appear to be asleep, only to be wide awake the next second. The mother couldn’t always tell when Benjamin was pulling the “fake sleeping” routine. But one day, she highly suspected that that was what he was doing.
So she took out her phone and started recording.
She called out his name very slowly.
After this, the baby’s eyelids moved. But his eyes stayed shut. Was he trying to peek out without his mom noticing?
So the mom moved in closer. Then Benjamin’s eye’s opened just a tiny bit.
His mouth also contorted into a smile.
Then he closed his eyes and moved his mouth back into a rested position again. He suspected that he’d been rumbled, but he wasn’t ready to admit defeat.
The mom then asked him if he was, “a smiley boy.”
The video ended there. It then appeared on YouTube, where it soon went viral. To date, it has gained over 7.1 million views. It also has more than 297,000 likes and 6,700 comments. People have been saying things like this:
Six years went by, and Benjamin’s mom didn’t post any more updates. But then, in mid-2020, she started documenting Benjamin once more.
Naturally, Benjamin had done lot of growing in the intervening years.