Kids are experts at creating delays. Someone suddenly needs the bathroom. A shoe mysteriously goes missing. In one family’s case, the delay came from unexpected animal passenger disguised as a baby doll.

Alanna Matson was shuttling her 5-year-old twins, Bria and Cora, to ballet class in upstate New York, running behind schedule, when suddenly she heard a sound. What happened next, equally chaotic and charming, is now going viral on TikTok.

In the video, Matson, a middle school Spanish teacher, explains that her daughters often wrap their baby dolls in blankets and cradle them in their laps during car rides. But that day, something was definitely off.

The camera shifts to the backseat. Bria is holding a doll, nothing unusual there. Then there’s Cora, beaming and clutching a large cat nam

See Full Page