I know Christmas is about the kids but I think the toy manufacturers must think it is fun to torcher parents! When the kids finished unwrapping all their presents and breakfast was over all we could hear is “Can you open this for me?” This is when the fun really began.
If you have not opened any toys lately you should know that it is a lot of work. Do the toy makers do this just to drive parents crazy? One little truck had all sides of the box taped, the truck wheels are wrapped with wire ties holding it to the cardboard, the little guy that came with the truck was held on with plastic it took about 15 minutes to get that one toy out of the box then you have to get the screwdriver and batteries and put them all in. Personally I would pay extra to have all toys to have batteries installed in them so when you finally get them out of the package the toys are ready to play.
As I said before we did go a little crazy buying gifts for the kids first Christmas so it took a couple of days to get everything opened and working. I think the kids really loved everything Steve had to try all his new clothes on, not because we wanted him to but because he wanted to. I was not really prepared for that. When I was little and someone gave me clothes they got a thank you and then they got tossed to a pile and I would go back to playing with the toys. Instead of the polite thank you Steve was so genuinely excited to get clothes. It made us think how hard it must have been before he came to our family. We knew that when Steve left his foster home to join our family he had no clothes of his own that fit but to have a three year old to be so excited to get clothes of his own it really made you think.