This is what a baby Asian elephant looks like. Wouldn’t you like to have some of this out of control adorableness? The Associated Press reports that if all goes well, the National Zoo could be getting one of its very own late next year.

The zoo conducted two artificial insemination procedures on Shanthi the elephant this week. They’ll be monitoring her hormones for the next ten weeks to see if it worked, with the hopes that 20 to 22 months from now (the typical elephant gestation period), a face like this will greet animal cam obsessives and, eventually, zoo visitors.

We’re trying not to get our hopes up too high, as the zoo tried unsuccessfully to impregnate Shanthi in April. Still, it’ll be hard to not daydream about the possibility all day, and harder still not to jinx the entire business by thinking up names for a theoretical baby elephant. The last Asian elephant birth at the zoo was of Kandula in 2001.