A North Carolina toddler who opened his entire family's Christmas gifts at 3 a.m. Christmas morning was just trying to be helpful, his parents explain. Scott and Katie Reintgen shared more about the thought process their 3-year-old went through when he decided to open up the gifts all by himself.
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In addition to the 3-year-old, the couple has two other children, ages 6 and 1. They had to salvage the wreckage to keep the 6-year-old happy.
"The 6-year-old is very much the rule follower so the idea that someone would just go down and open all the presents would just be unthinkable to him," Scott said.
After discovering the carnage, Scott was in charge of putting the kids back to bed and Katie went through the painstaking process of rewrapping all of the gifts. Since she had run out of fresh wrapping paper, she had to carefully use ripped paper and tape. When she was done, she put the presents under the tree again.
"Luckily my wife repackaged enough of the presents to stop the villain origin story for the 6 year old," Scott explained in a post on X (formerly Twitter). "We, on the other hand, are sipping coffee and plotting to tell this story at his wedding."
