There was no moving creature, except the little children.
A 3-year-old in North Carolina couldn’t wait for Christmas morning and celebrated early by opening “everything” under his family’s tree in an overnight gift raid.
“Y’all. My three-year-old came down at 3 in the morning and unwrapped ALL the presents,” author Scott Reintgen says on X, accompanied by a photo 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 “loudly” sought help opening one of his presents.
“The 3-year-old had found his Spider-Man web shooter, so he wanted scissors to cut it,” Reintgen told NBC News.
When they went downstairs to see what their “midnight criminal” was up to, they found he had opened “literally everything, from the smallest eraser to the largest box.”
Some of the prizes left behind in the shredded wrapping paper carnage are a gumball machine, a Sonic the Hedgehog toy, and your very own “Mega Cyborg Hand,” a hydraulic hand.
Reintgen, who claims to be usually a light sleeper, was on duty on Christmas Eve taking care of his sick 1-year-old daughter and just as he felt sleepy at 2 a.m., the exhausted father passed out.
“I suppose that’s why I didn’t hear it. Usually I’m done!” she replied to one of his comments.
The trouble-making 3-year-old has opened every present left under the tree during his early morning gift raid. X / @Scott_Thought
The science fiction and fantasy writer offers his son’s side of the story because he wants to open all the presents so no one is “confused”.
“He wanted us to be able to see our gifts so we would know what they were,” Reintgen told NBC News. “I think he legitimately just felt that he was doing everybody a service. He won’t do it again next year, we hope.”
Katie Reintgen added her son has shown “no remorse.”
The couple, who share three children, rushed to rewrap their firstborn’s presents before he woke up. X / @Scott_Thought
“The 6-year-old is very rule-abiding so the idea that someone would come downstairs and open all the presents was beyond her,” Scott Reintgen told the outlet. “But our middle child is an adventurous, no-nonsense, no-rules, fun-loving kind of kid.”
The magical holiday wasn’t completely ruined for the couple’s other children as Katie Reintgen rewrapped “a bunch of presents to make the morning special.”
Scott Reintgen and his wife now plan to tell the story at their son’s wedding. X / @Scott_Thought
While Reintgen goes to work putting his mischievous son to bed, his wife tries to salvage some wrapping paper for “enough gifts to stop the villain’s origin story for the 6-year-old.”
“We are not angry. He’s a good kid, and it’s a story we’ll tell the rest of our lives,” Reintgen said in a follow-up post to X, saying they will come with a story to tell at his wedding.
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