This was the moment a three-year-old from Wexford County, Michigan stole her dad's phone to film herself giving him a 2 am wake-up call.

Footage from May 2 shows the hilariously adorable middle-of-the-night encounter between Ludosia and father Derek.

Ludosia is seen turning on the camera in the darkness then saying "say cheese" as Derek wakes up in a haze and retrieves the phone.

Derek said online: "My daughter comes into our room in the middle of the night and for some reason grabbed my phone off the nightstand, opens the camera and takes a video."

He later said, "[I] didn't know about it for weeks until I randomly found it in my camera."

3 yo Daughter wakes up in the middle of night and comes into mom and daddy’s room, finds daddy’s phone and wants to take a picture