Tonight, I finally set aside some time to watch the Babies documentary and it really is as cute as it sounds. The documentary follows the first year of four babies in four different parts of the world. I posted this trailer back in December of 2009 when I first heard about the movie. After watching this, I have discovered a few things:

1) My favorite babies from this movie [it’s a tie!] are the trouble making Bayar from Mongolia who seems to never be around his parents and Miss Hattie from San Francisco with the hippie parents.

2) Babies are fearless. They do certain things because they don’t know any better, but somehow I still found myself cringing in my seat worried for their safety. Part of me was thinking that if I were a baby, I wouldn’t do any of those things, but then again what do I know? I’m watching this movie with 20 years of life experience. Here is probably a good time to mention that keeping an eye on a baby is vital, baby monitors, nanny cams etc… Anything is good as long as there’s a pair of eyes on them!

3) The children featured in this movie are now around the age of four. They are going to grow up with this spectacular video documentary of themselves and I am awfully jealous. Those early years are the most important because you’re not going to remember any of it when you’re older unless it’s documented. BRB searching for my home videos now.

This documentary was a joy to watch. There’s not a lot of dialog – HOBviously because they’re babies – but it just goes to show that sometimes it isn’t always necessary. Get ready for your heart to melt.