When Autistic Support teacher Morgan Ainsworth arrived home after a long day, she never thought her son’s fundraiser pizzas would turn into a video that would end up on “America’s Funniest Home Videos” nine months later. 

“I had a really bad day at work, and I had to bring the fundraiser stuff home,” Ainsworth said. “It was for my sister. She had ordered the pizzas.” 

The same night her sister was coming to pick up the fundraiser, Ainsworth was hosting an event at her house. 

“I was doing some cleaning, and I left my toddler [Dawson] unattended for not even five, maybe ten, minutes,” Ainsworth said. “Mom of the year, I know. [In that time] he ended up opening two frozen pepperoni pizzas, and then eating them off the floor.” 

Ainsworth was taken aback when she saw what he was doing. 

“I quickly grabbed my phone because I was in such disbelief that no one would believe me that this was happening,” Ainsworth said. “He didn’t know I was seeing him, so I came around and was able to record him in the act of eating all the frozen pizzas.” 

From there, she sent the video to her husband and mother-in-law, as well as posted it to Facebook. Her mother-in -law was the one to send it to “America’s Funniest Home Videos.” 

According to Ainsworth, her mother-in-law wanted to send the video in because, “it was really funny and is going to make us some money.”

Originally, Ainsworth was hesitant to have her son’s video sent in. 

“I was very skeptical about putting it out there because I didn’t want my kid to be made fun of by America,” Ainsworth said. “He’s two. He doesn’t care, but it’s just a mom thing where you just worry about what others are going to think of him.” 

However, when the video officially aired on the show, her thoughts changed. 

“Watching the video on the day that it aired and watching people laugh and just happy to watch his video made it worth it,” Ainsworth said. 

In order to be aired on “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” there is a process any video must go through. 

“It is not America’s vote,” Ainsworth said. “It’s the producers who pick the top three and then the live cast actually will pick out of those three videos.”

Their video was not chosen to be a winner. 

“It did not get picked,” Ainsworth said. “It aired twice, so that was pretty cool. But they did say that over 3,000 videos are entered a week, so it’s still a really big deal that they even got picked.” 

Ainsworth’s son, Dawson, was excited to see himself on TV. 

“He just learned how to say his name,” Ainsworth said. “So he said, “Dawson. Mom, Dawson.’ and I said, ‘Yeah, buddy. That’s you.’ He found it pretty funny noticing himself on TV.” 

Although they didn’t do anything to celebrate the video airing, the Ainsworth family still watched the video when the episode aired. 

“Just me, my husband and Dawson watched it,” Ainsworth said. “We knew other people were watching it from their homes. It aired at 7 p.m. and he [Dawson] went to bed at 7:30, so we didn’t do anything.” 

In Ainsworth’s eyes, although his video didn’t win, the experience gives him something to look forward to when he is older. 

“This is going to be the best two truths and one lie question,” Ainsworth said. “It is going to be a great icebreaker.”