As Paul Harvey always said

AND HERE"S THE REST OF THE STORY

If you read the "A Day" post

You may have said

It looks like they had a great day

Well yes, we did

but

since I like to call myself an honest person

I feel the need to tell

"the rest of the story"

so here goes

EVERYTHING THAT WENT WRONG

I never over sleep. I never set my clock because I always wake up so early

5:30 or so

Now I may stay awake for a few minutes and then

allow myself to fall back asleep

So

I was not worried about meeting Courtney

I was going to leave Berry at 7

I woke up at 8:45

So...we got a late start.

That was okay

we still had plenty of time

except

the traffic from Birmingham to Tuscaloosa

started slowing down right outside of Bessemer

But, we made it

got to see Coach Saban and the captains

Okay, so that's not so bad

Courtney wanted to eat on the quad

Lawson loves to eat on the quad

and play while he eats

We left the blanket in the car

the ground was wet

Okay

we will just go to Pepitos

Court had not been there in years

Sit down

whew

everything is okay

until

Lawson grabs a table knife off the table

and his arms slips

and he jabs his eye with the knife

Panic

everywhere for a few minutes

He was okay

it hit right at his eye brow

a little cut and a little bruise

and some hurt feelings and MeMe and Mommy's food starts flopping around in our stomachs

We head to the stadium

We get in line for the only lower level gate available

We are getting in

until

they tell me my purse was too big

What

we get out of line

go to another gate to see if they will let my purse in

Yes, yeah!

but

it is upper deck

That's okay

we take off

Lawson is loving it

until

he falls and skins both knees

he calms down when his Mommy tells him

that he can have some jelly beans from

the concession stand

We take off to the top, again

Oh No

this can't be

It was so crowded that you had to get into

a line to even go out and hunt a place to sit

No Way

with a baby

So

we hung out a while and peeped in to watch a little action

bought Lawson his jelly beans

and headed back down.

Back on the quad we went to take pictures of the captains

hand prints in the cement at Denny chimes

They had it blocked of, of course, since it

was wet cement

Guess what happened

You won't believe it

Lawson spilled his jelly beans

they fell on the ground

But

3 fell in the cement

Court and I gasped

Oh no, not on our captains

But

it got worse

Lawson

upset over his spilled jellybeans

ducks under the blockade and heads for

his jelly beans

Major police movement

Courtney grabbed him just

before he became a

Alabama Captain

But

3 jelly beans were still in the cement

when we left

quickly with our heads ducked

to the bus stop

We rode the bus back to our car

Lawson needed to "TT"

After our discussion about port a potty

we decided to get him behind some bushes and let him "TT"

I mean surely the cops won't arrest a 2 year old

for indecent exposure

except that Lawson likes to take his pants completely off

when he "TT"s

So

there he is bottom shining

in the bushes at the Stallings Center

Luckily

our first luck that day

no one came by

By this time Courtney and I were getting silly

We both know that Lawson will probably be an Auburn fan

That is fine with us both

we tell Lawson he just has to respect our love for Alabama

So...in our silliness

we start talking about the likely little Auburn fan

"TT"ing on the grounds of Alabama at their A Day game

you can see that we were getting delirious!

While Lawson was in the bushes "TT"ing he noticed

the cute little flower garden at The Stalling Center

He wanted to go in

There was no stay out sign

so we went in

It was a beautiful little garden

peaceful

until we looked around and Lawson had pulled up a nice little bouquet

of tulips!

Can anything else happen?

We get to our car fast and go

We were going by Brady and Kim's house

to check on their animals

They were at Disney World

Lawson was so disappointed because the kids were

not there but happy to play on their swing set

I let the cat out and we sat outside to let

Domino stay outside and stretch his legs.

We went in after about 45 minutes

Lawson was wanting to play with Domino

Domino is still a kitten and swats at

everything that moves

So

you guessed it

Lawson was in the line of fire for one of those swats

He was fine

his feelings were just a little hurt

until

we noticed that the spot was swelling

and

he was breaking out

ADD one more thing to Lawson's allergies

Courtney gave him some benadryl

he seemed better

but he said his stomach hurt

Uh Oh

start the bath water

Poor Baby

It was then that Courtney noticed the warning

on the jelly beans that she bought him

They were sugar free

and

it says to only eat 8

or it may cause diarrhea

are they kidding!!!!

Lawson had eaten most of the

package

Anyway

the benadryl started taking affect

his stomach eased

Courtney gave him a bath

while I tried to find some of John Brady's clothes

that wouldn't fall off of Lawson

We locked up and headed home

Courtney said for us to go 55 mph

stay in the right lane and go straight home

and hope tomorrow was better.

AND...THAT"S THE REST OF THE STORY

UPDATE****** I knew I left some things out....Read Courtney's comment

for the rest of the story....yes it get worse******