--- title: Timelapse Video of Daughter from Age 0 to 14: Viral Video description: Dad Frans Hofmeester filmed his daughter Lotte every day and this timelapse video shows her grow up from birth to 14 years old in 4 minutes. canonical: https://time.com/61508/dads-timelapse-video-shows-his-daughter-grow-up-from-age-0-to-14/ author: Olivia B. 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His [2012 video](http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/apr/26/frans-hofmeester-films-lotte-vince-time-lapse) of Lotte from age 0 to 12 in 2:45 minutes has 4.3 million views to date. Hofmeester, who has also produced footage of his son [Vince](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuyUv0vliXY) growing up, explained in an op-ed in [_The Guardian_](http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/apr/26/frans-hofmeester-films-lotte-vince-time-lapse) that he makes these timelapse videos because it has been a way for him to bond with his children. He used the Saturday morning shoots as an opportunity to ask them how their weeks went and about their likes and dislikes. On a larger scale, he [writes](http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/apr/26/frans-hofmeester-films-lotte-vince-time-lapse), “this is the most photographed and filmed generation ever, but what are we actually doing with these pictures? They just sit in a file on the computer…We don’t often look at the photographs we take, not in the same way that an artist would look at his paintings.” (h/t [Mamamia](http://www.mamamia.com.au/viral-videos/time-lapse-video-of-child-growing-up/)) **WATCH:** [Timelapse: Stunning Satellite Images of Earth](http://world.time.com/timelapse/) **WATCH:** [Timelapse Video Shows an Entire Saturday Night Live Taping in Two Minutes](http://time.com/56573/saturday-night-live-taping-time-lapse/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/61508/dads-timelapse-video-shows-his-daughter-grow-up-from-age-0-to-14/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/61508/dads-timelapse-video-shows-his-daughter-grow-up-from-age-0-to-14/"},"headline":"Dad's Timelapse Video Shows His Daughter Grow Up from Age 0 to 14","datePublished":"2014-04-14T14:33:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:45.794Z","description":"In just four minutes","url":"https://time.com/61508/dads-timelapse-video-shows-his-daughter-grow-up-from-age-0-to-14/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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