--- title: Dad Giving Baby Daughter a Spa Day Video Goes Viral description: A dad giving his baby daughter a spa day has gone viral when he shared a video of their sweet pampering moment. canonical: https://time.com/5656751/dad-baby-daughter-spa-day-video/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-08-20T16:58:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:00:00.073Z og:title: Dad Giving Baby Daughter a Spa Day Video Goes Viral og:description: So sweet og:url: https://time.com/5656751/dad-baby-daughter-spa-day-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc0e4f9269cd4ad58/698a019d09208f5a88415692/baby-spa-day-dad-video.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Precious feet, African American baby og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Dad Giving Baby Daughter a Spa Day Video Goes Viral twitter:description: So sweet twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc0e4f9269cd4ad58/698a019d09208f5a88415692/baby-spa-day-dad-video.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Dad Giving His Baby Daughter a Spa Day Is the Sweetest Thing > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 20, 2019 4:58 PM UTC  Precious feet, African American baby, 6 months old Precious feet, African American baby, 6 months oldGetty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 20, 2019 4:58 PM UTC A video of a father giving his baby daughter a spa day has gone viral and it’s easy to see why — the sweet moment just might be [the purest thing on the Internet.](https://time.com/5633584/rihanna-lookalike/) In a video shared on his Instagram account, Dad Jimmy Howell gives [9-month-old baby Kensley](https://www.instagram.com/p/B1V%5Fafgnrko/), clad in a tiny bathrobe, a pedicure, where he not only clips and files her toenails, but elicits a laugh from her by joking about her feet. In the caption to the post, Howell shared that he has weekly “spa talks” with Kensley and joked about Kensley’s reaction to [his skills as a nail technician.](https://time.com/5644114/manicure-grandpa/) “She got a little crazy with me today due to the fact that I was filing her nails a little too rough, y’all see why I can’t do anything for free, I’m charging her next week, just watch,” he wrote. 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