Children of the UTMC

bullfrog · Post by **bullfrog** » Mon May 25, 2009 7:10 am

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i have the coolest daughter ever.

i think my daughter will turn into a badass woman someday.

very curious and she loves to help....so fun to be around...

i had to change the oil in the family wagon yesterday.

just feeling all sentimental and shit today...

here's some older pics.

thanks.

GOSTAZ · Post by **GOSTAZ** » Mon May 25, 2009 9:34 am

You are both lucky! And I too believe that your daughter will grow into a very top shelf human. Keep up the good work, and enjoy the journey!

Jonny · Post by **Jonny** » Mon May 25, 2009 9:39 am

Bullfrog, thanks for posting that. You're daughter is a real sweetie and I think it's fantastic that you involve her with what you love to do. My lad's only 7 months and now after seeing your photos I'm feeling both wistful and sentimental at the same time.

Here's a bit of dad and Liam bonding (apparently in soft focus):

We'll move on to motorcycle maintenance once he can crawl.

monstergirl · Post by **monstergirl** » Mon May 25, 2009 12:20 pm

She is so cute!
I really like it when people have good things to say about having kids instead of using them as an excuse for why they feel like they can't do what they think they want to do.
+1 that you are both lucky.

And Liam is sure a cutey too!

bullfrog · Post by **bullfrog** » Mon May 25, 2009 1:04 pm

Jonny wrote:
We'll move on to motorcycle maintenance once he can crawl.

7 months old was when she started being "mine." a couple months later she was my shadow...

moto maintenence was a bit tricky at first...i had to save all of my critical work for when she was asleep. i was always worried that if i paid to much attention to the task at hand and i may not be able to keep her safe.

+1 on the good looks of Liam.

bullfrog · Post by **bullfrog** » Mon May 25, 2009 1:05 pm

monstergirl wrote:She is so cute!
I really like it when people have good things to say about having kids instead of using them as an excuse for why they feel like they can't do what they think they want to do.
+1 that you are both lucky.

And Liam is sure a cutey too!

i do a lot more now than pre-familyand my life actually has meaning now....

i am content.

bullfrog · Post by **bullfrog** » Mon May 25, 2009 6:03 pm

BackDoorBarbie wrote:now, take this for what it is worth, but i remember doing the EXACT SAME THING when my dad was changing the oil in the old truck. i was 4 years old, and i got to hand him tools and he let me watch. if there were pictures they would look like those. i remember that like it were yesterday and it was one of the best times i ever had with him. now, i think i turned out allright and i still love wrenching on stuff, so your little one may not be that far off. (the difference is that your daughter will have more than one fond memory of her dad, and that is an awesome thing)

perhaps a sentimental day for me, too but thanks for sharing

thank you for sharing that.

seriously.

she turned 4 last month...it means a lot that the efforts that i am putting forth will be remembered fondly 20+ years from now...btw, she not only handed me tools but she enthusiastically brought her own tools from the garage (i give her the allen wrenches and open end wrenches that come with flat-pack furniture...) she really is an awesome kid...

it is easy to do now...i need to make sure to put forth the same effort when it is not so easy...like in 10-15 years...

thanks for the good words.

piccini9 · Post by **piccini9** » Mon May 25, 2009 6:47 pm

I don't remember it, but the day my Dad replaced the exhaust on his VW bug was the day I learned all my curse words.

bullfrog · Post by **bullfrog** » Mon May 25, 2009 7:01 pm

piccini9 wrote:I don't remember it, but the day my Dad replaced the exhaust on his VW bug was the day I learned all my curse words.

Pintgudge · Post by **Pintgudge** » Mon May 25, 2009 8:17 pm

Awwww, She's a cutie!

Yer a lucky Guy!

Flatline · Post by **Flatline** » Tue May 26, 2009 12:07 am

Cuteness overload.

Little kids in helmets always crack me up. It's one of those things that will never get old seeing.

Bigshankhank · Post by **Bigshankhank** » Tue May 26, 2009 5:10 am

Good to see, I am trying to get my 14 year old stepson more into what it takes to keep his dirtbike running now that summer is getting nearer. I missed out on the very young years (didn't meet him till he was 9) so am trying to bond as best I can with what I know.
Good luck!

bullfrog · Post by **bullfrog** » Tue May 26, 2009 6:32 am

Bigshankhank wrote:Good to see, I am trying to get my 14 year old stepson more into what it takes to keep his dirtbike running now that summer is getting nearer. I missed out on the very young years (didn't meet him till he was 9) so am trying to bond as best I can with what I know.
Good luck!

as a former stepson myself, i commend your efforts.

i would have done anything for my stepdad to do something with me other than put me to work.

bullfrog · Post by **bullfrog** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:17 pm

went to the dunes today.

stiles · Post by **stiles** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:31 pm

Cuuuuute!

Good on 'ya for spending quality time with your kid, and teaching her not to be afraid of mechanical things. It'll be a fond memory someday for both of you and she will be a world better off.

rubber buccaneer · Post by **rubber buccaneer** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 3:51 pm

Y'all gotta stop posting all the sentimental sappy stuff like this

bullfrog wrote:

so I don't have to pretend like I have something in my eye.
But seriously, good on all of you. I have no kids of my own so I cannot say that I know how it feels but I do know that I deeply appreciate what my father did (and still does) for me. Keep up the great work.

Dammit, I still have something in my eye

motorpsycho67 · Post by **motorpsycho67** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:03 pm

Awwww. What a little sweetheart.

Hobbs, NM huh? My dad graduated from Hobbs High School in 1958.

bullfrog · Post by **bullfrog** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:46 pm

motorpsycho67 wrote:Awwww. What a little sweetheart.

Hobbs, NM huh? My dad graduated from Hobbs High School in 1958.

ha! smallworld...lucky for you he left this place...

Vespalina · Post by **Vespalina** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 6:07 pm

What AWESOME pictures! Thanks so much for sharing them with us.

It does get harder as they get older. Leahna is 10 and she's my step-daughter. I ask higher powers for patience often, but there are so many moments that I truly cherish and I realize that time files so quickly with the little ones.

Keep up the good work daddy.

(and you too Johnny...Liam is a real cutie)

Ames · Post by **Ames** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 7:15 pm

Man, that picture of you holding her over you as she kissed your dome, seriously awesome. Brings back memories of my eldest as a wee lass.
Thanks.

Groove · Post by **Groove** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 9:39 pm

Kids are so funny sometimes. Here's my little monkey helping me with the CB. If you look closely you can see a tiny wrench in his right hand.

SECO · Post by **SECO** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:12 pm

monstergirl wrote:She is so cute!
I really like it when people have good things to say about having kids instead of using them as an excuse for why they feel like they can't do what they think they want to do.
+1 that you are both lucky.

And Liam is sure a cutey too!

MG, you are soo right!

Those kids are cute. Awesome stuff!

Em is awesome, I think I may have felt almost as bad as her pa, when he took me on a tour of SENM. I take it, that it isn't as rough on you now, when you go on a trip? Talk about putting a guilt trip on someone! Thanks for sharing, Bullfrog.

The first time I went on an extended M/C trip (to Moab for a week), my daughter was 10 months old, I could hear her tearful in the background while talking to the wife on the phone: "da da, da da, da da, da da!" The wife was all, "You better hurry up and come home, I don't know how long I'll be able to handle her. She doesn't want any one or anything but her Da Da."

She got a bit older, then it was: "Help Da Da fick it. Da Da fick it. Mosikle go vroom." Between her and her grandfather, my tools became increasingly hard to find.

Going on long M/C trips got emotionally tough, until Brother came along. Then she started to not want anything to do with me, cause I was one of those "icky boys". Then a few years ago, she reverted back to being Daddy's girl...It's been a rollercoaster, but we have an understanding, and she gets her fair share of riding and Dad time in too. We connect on motorcycles and cars, brother and I connect on aircraft, and locomotives. I even taught and spent time with both of them tracking...kinda unfair for them to play "hide n seek" with kids at school. Then there's the family trips, kinda like geography and history classes, but far more enjoyable, better than a field trip. Shhh, don't tell them they're learning anything.

Hmmm, I've got some time coming to me in Sept., AND she's been bugging me about the Fandango ride, AND Bullfrog and familia are along the way, AND I can't think of a better reason to disrupt her public school education.... (insert thoughtful chin rubbing emoticon).

xaos · Post by **xaos** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 4:42 am

Bullfrog,
obnoxiously cute munchkin. but seriously, who's the father?

bullfrog · Post by **bullfrog** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:17 am

xaos wrote:Bullfrog,
obnoxiously cute munchkin. but seriously, who's the father?

not sure...i was incarcerated at the time...it doesn't bother me anymore.

bullfrog · Post by **bullfrog** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:28 am

SECO wrote: I take it, that it isn't as rough on you now, when you go on a trip? Talk about putting a guilt trip on someone! ).

i solved that problem. everytime i go on a trip, i bring back a handfull of rocks and minerals, geodes and agates, etc. she misses me when i call to check in but i tell her what i found her a surprise and she mellows out.

SECO wrote:She got a bit older, then it was: "Help Da Da fick it. Da Da fick it. Mosikle go vroom." Between her and her grandfather, my tools became increasingly hard to find. ).

ha...my kid helped me "bicks" everything...she was good about returning tools. she was best about coming up to me with a missing spacer/washer/nut/bolt/cotterpin/etc that i had been hunting for hours. out of the blue "here daddy"

SECO wrote:Hmmm, I've got some time coming to me in Sept., AND she's been bugging me about the Fandango ride, AND Bullfrog and familia are along the way, AND I can't think of a better reason to disrupt her public school education.... (insert thoughtful chin rubbing emoticon).

you are welcome anytime homie. we'll even let you crash on the couch.

i will check my calender to be sure when but rolando and i are heading to oregon in september (about the third week) so anytime before or after that is cool. i'll even run a leg with you toward bb.

bullfrog · Post by **bullfrog** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:29 am

GrooveMonkey wrote:Kids are so funny sometimes. Here's my little monkey helping me with the CB. If you look closely you can see a tiny wrench in his right hand.

awesome.

bullfrog · Post by **bullfrog** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:32 am

EIF · Post by **EIF** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 9:40 pm

Pinched from another thread...

Groovemonkey Junior, trying to get his mojo goin' with my daughter. Already he can't resist an older woman.

Timmay · Post by **Timmay** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 7:47 am

My youngest, riding our home made franken bike. He helped me put it together from various bikes in the garage. he's been itching for a ride on my bike, but moms won't let him unless I get a back rest. Note the pick where he's standing on the handle bars, it's the middle of summer and he's wearing moon boots. I could not get those off his feet.

Bigshankhank · Post by **Bigshankhank** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 12:31 pm

Well let me see if I can get the boy some media attention here...
This is from last year when he took a dirtbike riding school, which is required for riders under 15 in Florida. Notice that the other bikes in the class were all late model Honda CRFs and one Yamaha YZ from the early 90's.

And here he is on his last day of 8th grade. Someone bet him he wouldn't dress like an Oompa Loompa, and obviously he won. The wife made the costume.

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Children of the UTMC

Children of the UTMC