A video posted by Smithsonian’s National Zoo (@smithsonianzoo) on Sep 1, 2015 at 2:21pm PDT

Mei Xiang put her baby cub down long enough on Sunday for the panda watchers to get a good look at her yet-to-be-named offspring.

Mei gave birth to two panda cubs on August 22, but one of them quickly succumbed to pneumonia (likely as a result of aspiring food into its respiratory system.) The surviving cub, a boy sired by Tian Tian, is doing well, according to the Zoo. So well, in fact, that Mei Xiang has even put him down a few times.

Mei Xiang decided to eat some sugarcane and drink dilute apple juice the keepers left for her yesterday evening around 6 p.m. Two hours later, she left the den to urinate and defecate—only the second time she’s done that since giving birth. She put the cub down when she left the den and he was very quiet for the while she was gone. Over the next few weeks she will get more comfortable leaving him for increasingly longer periods of time to eat and drink. While Mei was away, our behavior watchers captured a fantastic view close-up of the cub.”

Which leads us to the question—is this thing getting cute yet? The vast majority of fans on Instagram said the tiny, wobbly creature is adorable. But we’re pretty sure it is still an alien rat.