Twin toddlers caught on camera partying all night long, because screw bedtime.

Two-year-old New York twins, Andrew and Ryan, are the best thing on the internet since the BBC dad.

The acrobatic pair have been caught on camera escaping their cots for a party – when they were meant to be sleeping.

Toddler twins party all night long in hilarious video: https://t.co/BoryTF1NLi pic.twitter.com/a444fMVlkn

— NBC10 Philadelphia (@NBCPhiladelphia) March 19, 2017

In the footage posted on Facebook, the identical twins sit on the sofa for a chat. They build a fort.  They remove a mattress from a cot with exemplary teamwork. They rearrange the room’s pillows.

Their father, Jonathan Balkin, appears in the room and manages to settle his boys but as soon as he's gone the toddlers escape again.

Parents Jonathan and Susana Balkin finally get the two down and leave, but Andrew and Ryan reconvene on the sofa for a little chat before they voluntarily get in their cots again.

Mr Balkin told NBC the twins have now switched to beds because the boys were "non-stop all night".

Good call.

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