The presens are opened. Corwin and Charles had great fun opening things although Alice didn’t really get into this year (C&C opened her presents). Mom got a good selection of loot this year.
Charles was able to pick out his presents by recognizing his name. He also opened one present which had wrapping paper around a shipping box. Charles opened it, saw in the shipping box and announced “it’s a box!” and moved on to the next present. We also achieved our primary goal for him, which was indicated by Charles exclaiming “I got a lot of presents!” once he had separated his presents in to a separate pile.
Alice got a dual-microphone karaoke machine which plays audio CDs. Alice thought this was the coolest thing. Mom had to fight her for it to install the batteries because Alice didn’t see how it that could possibly make it better.
Corwin was somewhat withdrawn, wanting to concentrate on opening and playing with his loot.