CARY, N.C. — A toddler nearly ruined Christmas for one North Carolina family.
When they woke up on Christmas morning, they found their three-year-old had, in the middle of the night, opened every single present under the tree.
We spoke to the father who called it 'pure chaos.'
"And that was when we went downstairs and my wife discovered every gift had been opened," said Scott Reintgen, the father.
When Scott and Katie Reintgen woke up Christmas morning, it wasn't the way they expected.
Their toddler son decided to get a early look at what Santa brought, opening every Christmas gift under the tree.
"He found the gift he was looking for which was Spider Man web shooters," said Reintgen. "He came back upstairs and woke my wife up for a request for scissors, which is a relatively terrifying thing to hear as a parent in the middle of the night."
Scott posted the aftermath of the night's events on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The post amassing over six million views sparking others to share their own Christmas horror stories of their kids doing the same.
The family has two other kids ages six and one. Scott says he wasn't surprised his 3-year-old son would do something like this. He calls it pure chaos.
"I think it was in both of their heads like something exciting was happening and he does wake up a lot in the middle of the night so I think as soon as he woke up he thought lets check again and sure enough he found a treasure waiting for him," said Reintgen.
The family didn't have any extra wrapping paper, but they made it work.
"So she basically had to take everything he ripped to sheds, salvage it and rewrap - she just rewrapped the 6-year-old's gift," said Reintgen. "It was enough to take care of business."
Scott says going viral on social media is fun, and makes this a Christmas they'll never forget.
The dad said his son justified opening the gifts because he 'didn't want anyone to be confused.'
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