Victim: William Poston
Culprit: Owen Poston
Weapon: Laundry Basket
Incident: As told from the mother.
It was about 12:30 P.M. The family had just finished eating lunch. My husband, David, came home from work for lunch, and before he went back to work, we decided to play our newest board game; Ascension.
During the course of the game, Morgan, William, Owen, and Lydia all wanted blankets tied around their necks so that they could be super hero's.
(Super hero blanket-cape pictured below.)
A few minutes passed with the boys playing upstairs, and David and I playing our game downstairs at the kitchen table. I overheard a comment from Owen. "I'm not a superhero anymore!"
We can only assume that that is when he decided to switch to the dark side. Now a super villain, Owen wasn't bound by the same strictures as a hero.
The cry came, loud and urgent. David and I looked at each other. I asked, "Is that real?" He replied in the affirmative. We heard William coming quickly down the stairs, wailing in pain. We knew this was more than the normal bumps or hits.
David saw him first. "Holy crap!" He dropped his cards and scrambled out of his chair.
Then I saw William hurrying down the stairs, blood pouring out of both nostrils, his cape trailing behind him. Also trailing behind him was Owen, repeating, "Sorry, brother. Sorry, brother. Sorry, brother."
William reached the kitchen and David and me. David tried to hurry him to the bathroom, while William expelled a distressing amount of blood from his mouth and nose during a cough/breath expellation.
(The blood drops on this picture of Lydia's is from said cough, but the huge pile of blood was cleaned up by mother before it could be pictured.)
David got William into the bathroom where he spewed more blood that had been dripping down his throat, and coaxed a frantic William into holding a hand towel to his nose.
(The scene in the bathroom.)
(The towel that the victim held to his nose.)
Meanwhile, Lydia was walking through the blood in the kitchen, and leaving bloody footprints everywhere. Owen was sheepishly hanging out in the stairway, and Morgan was gaping at the blood or watching David care for William.
Since David had everything under control with William and the bleeding was decreasing, I set about finding out what happened, as well as cleaning up the blood stains in the carpet.
Morgan reported and Owen confirmed, that Owen picked up an empty laundry basket and pushed it into William's face. Owen was put into time out.
When William had stopped crying and the bleeding had ceased, David set up a movie for William and Morgan and Lydia, then the two of us followed the trail of blood to the crime scene.
(The blood trail went up the flight of stairs, down the hall a short ways, then into the boy's bedroom and up to William's bed.)
(This blanket perhaps captured the first of the spilt blood.)
Owen's help was requested while we finished cleaning up the blood stains in the carpet.
(A picture of a laundry basket after everything was cleaned up.)
A mini-court session was held with the two parents and the victim and the perpetrator. Owen pled guilty, and his sentence was left in the hands of the victim, William. William could choose for Owen to be put in time out, to be spanked, or he could choose to forgive him. After the options were thoroughly explained to him, William chose to forgive his brother.
We are pleased to report that after the trauma of the early afternoon, William is doing much better. He's happy, not in any pain, and thank goodness, there is no blood leaving his body.
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ReplyDeleteThis was some pretty funny pandemonium. I could hear the laugh track and the background music, too.
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