Ok, I actually stood up for her with the whole advent calendar thing at the start of the month. It clearly isn't age appropriate but I did think that the truck on day one and a little car every day in December seemed like quite a good idea, but the fact that he isn't allowed to play with them is just weird. She takes the present out of the advent calendar (obviously, because he's a year old and doesn't know his numbers yet), then Jamie opens the present and gives it to Ronnie who puts it away in the truck and that's it, until they do the whole strange routine again tomorrow morning.
No wonder he doesn't seem that interested in the whole thing. He just looks perplexed.