3 stories tonight

1- The funny: Charlotte and Lachlan were working together to get into trouble tonight when I was trying to serve up dinner.  I knew they were playing with an egg and I had told them to put it away before they broke it.  I was on the other side of the kitchen bench strapping Imogen into her high chair when I heard "IT IS an iguanadon!".  well, I knew straight away what had happened.  they had revealed the contents of the egg onto the kitchen floor and proclaimed the species found within! (with Lachlan being the dinosaur nut- it would have to be some palaeontological specimen)........Meanwhile I was trying not to laugh....you know, discipline and all that!

2- The painful: Its lucky I am relatively fit.  I went to pick up the kids from kindy today, lachlan ran outside with his friends and promptly stacked it in his excitement.  Well, being emotionally fragile at the moment, he wasn't the bravest, and usually I would say its not so bad, you'll be alright...(ie get over it) but he didn't want to walk- so then I had to push him in Imogens pusher, carry her with a pram full of backpacks and shopping, as well as Charlotte hanging onto the side of the pram.  that was hard bloody work.  An Imogen doesn't hip carry well (she doesn't hang on, she just hangs) and Lachlan weighs a ton.  I was stuffed when I got home. I wish I had the baby carrier in the pram.

3- The not funny at all:  Do you ever get the feeling that you were some place, at a certain time, for a very specific reason? i worked on the oncology ward on the weekend and saw my 2nd cousin there.  I realised that it was HER son in room 1 with the possible kidney tumor yet to be diagnosed.  By the end of the weekend I had seen several family members that I hadn't seen for about 3 years.  If only it was under better circumstances.  he was having a CT scan today to see the extent and plan treatment.  but they are thinking its a wilms cancer, and my 2nd aunt told me that they had been told it was about 1kg, wrapped around his entire kidney and they think he has had it for a long time, but no Drs would listen to their concerns!!!!!.....he is only 11 months old.  I am going to check in on them tomorrow in my lunch break if i am working on another ward.  hopefully the scans weren't all bad news.