Little boy, 3, unwraps ‘literally everything’ under family’s Christmas tree at 3 a.m.: ‘Legitimately thought he was doing a service’
Not a creature was stirring, except for a toddler.
A North Carolina 3-year-old couldn’t wait for Christmas morning and celebrated early by opening “literally everything” under his family’s tree in an overnight gift raid.
“Yall. My three year old came down at 3 a.m. and unwrapped EVERYONE’S presents,” author Scott Reintgen said on X, accompanied with a picture of his son’s crime scene.
Reintgen and his wife Katie, who have two other children, a 1-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son, only woke up after their son was “loudly” looking for help opening one of his gifts.
“The 3-year-old had found his Spider-Man web shooters, and so he wanted scissors to cut them out,” Reintgen told NBC News.
When they went down to see what their “midnight perpetrator” had gotten himself into they found he had opened “literally everything, from the tiniest eraser to the biggest box.”
Some of the presents left lying in the carnage of ripped-up wrapping paper were a gumball machine, a Sonic the Hedgehog toy, and a “Mega Cyborg Hand,” a build-your-own hydraulic hand.
Reintgen, who claims to usually be a light sleeper, was on baby duty Christmas Eve and taking care of his sick 1-year-old daughter and once she feel asleep at 2 a.m., the tired father immediately passed out.
“I’m assuming that’s why I didn’t hear him. Normally I’m all over it!” he replied to one of his comments.
The science fiction and fantasy writer offered his son’s side of the story as he wanted to open all the presents so nobody was “confused.”
“He wanted us to be able to see our presents so we knew what they were,” Reintgen told NBC News. “I think he legitimately just felt that he was doing a service to everyone. He will not do it again next year, we hope.”
Katie Reintgen added her son had showed “no remorse.”
“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 Reintgen told the outlet. “But our middle child is very much the adventurous, ridiculous, no-rules, have-fun kind of kid.”
The magical holiday wasn’t completely ruined for the couple’s other children as Katie Reintgen re-wrapped “a bunch of the gifts to make the morning special.”
As Reintgen went to work putting his mischief son back to bed, his wife attempted to salvage some of the wrapping paper for “enough of the presents to stop the villain origin story for the 6 year old.”
“We’re not mad. He’s a good kid, and it’s a story we’ll tell for the rest of our lives,” Reintgen said in a follow-up post to X, saying they are coming up with the story to tell at his wedding.
