Viral video shows why living near grandparents is “the best idea ever”

A viral video with over 1.5 million views shows the adorable bond between a boy and his grandfather who lives just down the street.

The video shows two-year-old Walker Stransky running down the street of his Colorado neighborhood to hug his grandfather, Neil Duggan.

The video, shared by Walker's mother Jamie Stransky on Instagram, is captioned: “Update: Living on the same street as Grandpa is still the best idea ever.”

Stransky, a mother of three boys, told Good Morning America that she was on a bike ride with her family in May when Walker spotted his grandfather outside mowing the lawn and ran down the street to hug him.

She said she and her husband moved down the street where her parents, Duggan and his wife, lived in 2018, shortly after the birth of Walker's older brothers, twins.

“This house came on the market and my parents were at the open house and immediately called us and said we had to see it,” Stransky told GMA. “We had no plans to move, but it was just too good to pass up.”

Five years later, Stransky said living so close to her parents had been the “greatest blessing” for her family.

“We see my parents almost every day and I'm so grateful for that. My boys have the best relationship with their grandparents,” she said. “They say it takes a village to raise a family and we're so lucky to have part of our village so close.”

Stransky said that while the video of Walker's run to Duggan went viral, it is not uncommon to see her sons running to their grandparents' house.

“This kind of thing happens almost every day,” she said.