There’s nothing cuter than babies and toddlers coming home from kindergarten with new skills to show off. While this stage of a child’s life is admittedly more focused on playing in the sandpit and sticking things together with PVA glue, there’s still the opportunity to learn a few things to impress mom and dad.

Anyone who has a good memory will recall reciting the “Pledge of Allegiance” as a little kid during kindergarten. It’s only on reflection that we realize just how adorable this must be for teachers to witness.

One little boy, the two-year-old son of Lacey Holmes, broke the cuteness scale when his mom filmed him reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in his family home.

Lacey shared the video to Facebook for her friends to watch, but it turned out the entire internet would take a look, too – and they couldn’t get enough of it.

Of all the things you’d expect a little kid to willingly perform, the Pledge of Allegiance probably doesn’t come up tops. Pop songs? Yes. Nursery rhymes? Definitely. A patriotic pledge to the American flag? Not so much.

But this little boy clearly knows his stuff, because he manages to recite the Pledge of Allegiance word for word! Sitting on his living room floor in a charming truck shirt, he even looks the part, with his hand over his heart, all ready to go.

Lacey starts recording and prompts her chubby-cheeked son to begin.

And that’s all it takes! In his tiny, squeaky voice, Lacey ‘s son recites the lines from start to finish. His gaze is on something just off camera – perhaps an American flag? – and he absolutely nails his recital.

What makes this video so darn adorable is how the little boy pronounces his words. Let’s face it, some of the words in the Pledge of Allegiance aren’t the most child-friendly, so we don’t blame the toddler for pronouncing “indivisible” as “in-di-bis-dible”. In fact, it just makes the whole thing even cuter!

We’re sure that Francis Bellamy, who penned the original Pledge of Allegiance, would be proud to hear this little boy reciting his words – though the Pledge itself has changed ever so slightly over the years.

While in 1892, the Pledge first read: “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands…”, of course, nowadays, it now reads: “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.” A bit wordier, but we have to admit, it has a better ring to it!

Lacey probably hoped to bring happiness to her Facebook friends’ news feeds with her video, but never could she have expected it to take off like it did. After people began to share the video and tag their friends, it travelled across the virtual world and went viral. It has since received 120,000 views and counting!

Plenty of people shared their reactions to the adorable little boy’s patriotic recital. One person wrote:

“Beautiful, that made my day. Thank you little one.”

Someone else commented:

“How adorable. He sure made me cry!!”

Others commented to say how smart and clever Lacey’s son was for learning the Pledge off-by-heart. We have to agree – this little boy has clearly got it in him to do well at school!

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Source: Parenting Isn’t Easy, Lacey Nicole Holmes, US History