Afternoon Delight is a daily diversion for when you’re just back from lunch, but not quite ready to get back to work. Check back weekdays at 1 p.m. for another one.

A time-lapse video by filmmaker Frans Hofmeester that’ll make parents tear up. And gaze in wonder. OK, it starts off like the expected cute-baby pix. But then such beauty, such goofiness, so many changes. Like drops of mercury in a centrifuge.

Sometimes it really does feel like it all happens in under three minutes.