I remember wrongly. It was a 7-hour battle (instead of 12) but epic nonetheless.

Yes. I’m sure I will be able to laugh about this in time to come (instead of feeling exasperated).

As I told gray ruby above, I feel that it was a blessing in disguise that this incident happened because it allowed me to understand how my son deals with conflict and attempts at reconciliation and have more data from which to draw from when such misadventures happen in the future.

Unfortunately yes. Both kids still rely on diapers sigh