CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A North Carolina couple woke up on Christmas morning to what they called "the most terrifying things a parent can be woken up by": Their 3-year-old loudly asking for scissors.
Why did he need scissors, you ask? Well, the excited toddler got a head start on Christmas by unwrapping the entire family's gifts!
"The 3-year-old had found his Spiderman web shooters and so he wanted scissors to cut them out," Scott Reintgen, who works as a science fiction and fantasy author, told NBC News in a phone interview Tuesday morning.
Mission accomplished. But don't worry, all's well that ends well, and there are no hard feelings about this Christmas catastrophe. Reintegen's wife Katie was even able to rewrap enough gifts for their oldest child, joking they were able to avoid his "villain origin story."
"We're not mad," Reintgen posted on X. "He's a good kid, and it's a story we'll tell for the rest of our lives."
NBC News contributed to this report.
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