Do you know what a Rube Goldberg machine is? Wikipedia describes it as, “a deliberately complex contraption in which a series of devices that perform simple tasks are linked together to produce a domino effect in which activating one device triggers the next device in the sequence.”

You know, like the opening sequence of Peewee’s Big Adventure or the game Mouse Trap.

Well, one ambitious set of expecting parents (known as the Dude Dad Vlog) created their own homemade Rube Goldberg machine to reveal the gender of their new baby. What makes this feat most amazing is that the couple currently have another baby (he triggers the sequence at the beginning) and for the life of me, I can’t imagine how they put this whole thing together without the current kid wrecking it. I mean, it uses the entire the house and Kid #1’s toys!

But the very best part is when the machine finally climaxes in the most epic gender reveal ever, Kid #1 bursts into tears. Because if you’ve been following my blog for awhile, you know that’s exactly how things go down sometimes.

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