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- - By Sourdough (****) Date 03-24-2007 16:48
Aren't kids just the damnest things? The other day my wife and I learned the hard way that Wyatt was strong enough to roll himself off the couch. The floor actually shook, and there was that typical pause before the crying. I suppose that is what we grown ups do as well when we hit the ground. I just can't for the life of me even imagine not having him around. I think of how life was just mundane before. You get up, go to work, have lunch, work some more, then come home and watch House, or American Idol, then go to bed. On the weekends, maybe you drink some beer, watch Nascar, sit in the hot tub, play "big chief" with the wifey......... then go to bed.

With a new kid, your life just starts revolving around them. My kid has me wrapped around his little, little finger, and he doesn't even speak english yet! I just can't get over it, I guess.
Parent - By CWI555 (*****) Date 03-25-2007 03:03
My boy is 2 years old this April. There isn't a day goes by that he doesn't surprise us with something new. I had began to worry about his late speaking, I've only heard him say a few words, but When I ask the wife about it, she clued me in that English was only 1/5 of his current vocabulary. (She speaks 6 languages fluently while I only speak redneck). Turns out he's been calling me dad in 4 languages, among other things. Made me feel really ignorant. I used to piss my wife off now and then just to listen to her rant in shifting languages. Now my boy is learning all these languages. Dad needs to step up to the plate and learn. I can teach him welding, science, mechanics, hunting, fishing, and many other things, but not languages or the arts. Leave it to a 2 year old to teach the old man some humility. Your right about kids being something else, It's almost been 2 years and He's still got me tied up.
Parent - By Mwccwi (***) Date 03-25-2007 05:01
Welcome to fatherhood, my girls are 20years and 14years old and still have me wrapped.
Parent - - By UCSB (**) Date 03-25-2007 18:52
I guess thats why we start life as babies- they are so sweet. They get us hooked and then------
If we started life as teenagers- the human species would be extinct.
I have two, son 27 and daughter 23 and man, am I glad we all survived the teen years. And they are both great kids.
Parent - By MDG Custom Weld (***) Date 03-30-2007 14:24
I hear ya SD, got Cody who just turned 3, and the girl who is almost a year.  It surly changes your thinking on a day to day basis!!
Parent - - By 803056 (*****) Date 03-31-2007 19:45
I've got six grandkids. Two girls and four boys. I can't spend enough time with them. My wife gives me hell because I try to schedule my work so I can be home when we're babysitting (that's three days a week). She says we need some money to pay the bills!

The oldest is a five year old girl. She told me not to sing along with her because I can't sing. She's right, brutal, but right!

One of the boys turned three last week. He has a little brother that's four months old, and as he was telling me what his little brother was doing, he said, " I remember when I was little ......."

I laughed and asked him when was he ever little?

He thinks he's all grown up. He was running around the house the other day with a Tupperware cover over his face, a pencil in hand, and making a "sizzzzzz" noise. My wife asked him what he was doing?

He said, "Welding like grandpa!"

He's never seen me weld, but we were watching a television program that briefly showed someone welding. I said, "That's what grandpa used to do." They never forget a thing (except what you want them to remember).  

Best regards - Al
Parent - - By MDG Custom Weld (***) Date 04-02-2007 09:52
They really want to do what ever you do..don't they.  My father-in-law bought my boy a welding hood for his second birthday.  The next day in the shop, he was ready to "See Daddy Weld".  I put 2 beanie hats and some small safety glasses on him and away we went.  He liked wearing it so much, he never flipped it up, so for an hour or so he wandered around blind.  Once I realized he liked wearing it so much, I put an extra Nex-Gen lens in it with the sensitivity up high so he could see when I wasn't welding.  Now I can't keep him away :)
Now he's 3 and works in the shop every chance he gets.
He already talks about getting little sis a hood when she gets bigger.

They are truly a gift from god.
Parent - - By 803056 (*****) Date 04-02-2007 14:53
Good move. You have to protect their eyes. Their eyes are very sensitive while they are young.

Best regards - Al
Parent - - By MBlaha (***) Date 04-03-2007 01:42 Edited 04-03-2007 01:52
I got to spend Sunday night and Monday morning with my grandson. He is 6 now and loves to be a part of whatever I am doing in the garage or remodeling the house. He love to go fishing with me and I have taken him deer gun hunting since he was 2 and last bow season, I threw one night of prime hunting, or what I thought would be thowing it away just so he could go out with me. He stayed on the ground under my tree stand with my rattling horns, and grunt call. The noise he made on the ground was so convincing, that my brother came in trying to stalk the two bucks he thought were fighting. LMAO This morning, he was walking around with my Welding Journal. He wanted me to read to him from it, so we sat down and read some and discussed the pictures. He asked lots of interesting questions. He has had a hood with his name on out in the garage since he was 3. Yea, grandkids, they are amazing. I best stop here, or I will bog down the server for the forum lol.

Oh, and if the little gals and guys cannot handle a adult size helmet, one can always fashion a much lighter child friendly means of veiwing utilizing cardboard, a sharp utility knife, duct tape, and a pair of cutting goggles with the elasctic stap that fits around your head, shortened up, and that accept the 2x4 lense fitted with a # 10 or 11 shade lense, they can observe safely. Howerver, please make sure they have all other parts of their sensitive bodies covered with clothing or fabric that resist the harmful rays. My wife fashioned a jacket for him out of the backs of a couple of my old green sateen  welding jackets.
Mike
Parent - - By Local14 (*) Date 05-06-2007 02:07
Awww, you old fogies are just a bunch of softies (don't hit me!) I love children and am expecting my first in August. I can't believe how much you can love some one who isn't even here yet! It's truly a miracle, though I fear the teen years. Maybe he'll be a nice, quiet boy....yeah right and pigs fly.
Parent - By billvanderhoof (****) Date 05-06-2007 07:52 Edited 05-06-2007 07:55
Congratulations on your impending parenthood.  Pigs indeed do not fly but there are many fine teenage boys.  To an extent that is a result of example they recieved as infants and toddlers.  For example- if you bully your child into behaving you will probably make him behave for the moment but you also give the example that bullying is the way to influence the world.  Talk to your baby, even before he can understand, then when he can understand (surely by the time he has speech, probably considerably before) you can explain why things are as they are and negotiate when there is a choice.  Try to only take a stand when it's important, won't eat broccoli- not important probably change his mind next week anyway, runs into the street- important, but still subject to explanation (after you drag him back to the side of the road).

Teenagers are wierd, if yours has half of his hair died green and a ring in his nose but gets home late because he stopped to help an old lady change a tire you've done well.

Treat your baby like you love him and you won't be far wrong.

You seem like a level headed person to me and I believe you will do well.  Still good luck doesn't hurt and I do offer you good luck.

Old fogey signing off now.
Bill
Parent - - By Sourdough (****) Date 05-08-2007 21:31
Wyatt is our first, he's about 4 months old now. Good lord, man - wait til you have the tike in your arms!

It's incredible!!
Parent - - By Local14 (*) Date 05-08-2007 22:59
I'm so excited for him to be here and I've got to wait until the end of august. It's hideously unfair I tell you. But I'm content at the moment to get all the knick nack and necessities ready for when he is here. And if my son helped an old lady change a tire, then I'd be mighty proud I'd raised a good person. ^^ ah! I really can't wait, I HATE waiting!!!!
Parent - - By ssbn727 (*****) Date 05-09-2007 07:10
Here's a tip about waiting Local 14...

The more you develop the patience that you already have even more - the better the welder you become!!!
Trust me on this friend!!! I waited almost four years to recieve the Gift of Life (Liver Transplant 10/08/1997) and before that experience, I thought I was a very patient person... How little did I know about patience!!! That experience has definitely helped develop my "patience muscles" if you get my meaning!!!

Now I've welded for many years before I got sick and since then, my deposits well - let me just say that those folks who talk that "welding instructors ca'nt do - that's why they teach" sure could make some money selling all that energy they're producing back to the utilities if you catch my drift or better yet - DRAFT!!! ;) ;) ;)

You'll do just fine dear!!! Just Remember to breathe!!! Then one day you'll look back at the experience and realize how much you have grown from it and maybe even laugh a little to boot!!!
All the BEST TO YOU!!! GOD BLESS YOU AND THE CHILD!!!

Respectfully,
Henry
Parent - - By makeithot (***) Date 05-09-2007 15:56
Was present for the delivery of both my children two of the most incredible experiences of my life.I keep telling the wife that it all looked pretty easy from where I was standing, still don't know what all that yelling and screaming was about(She never sees the humor in that statement). Now that they are teenagers the fun just keeps on comeing. Sad for them though I already tried all the stuff they are trying to get away with now, you got to love'em for trying though. My dauther has been moved ahead a grade and is finishing high school a year early, my son maintians a honour role standing on every report card ,not much compares to the feeling of seeing your child do well. On that same note not alot bothers me other then seeing them in harms way and in regards to patience nothing teaches that better then children. Don't know if it has helped me become a better welder but it is definitly all the incentive I need to keep hammering away everyday. 
Parent - - By aevald (*****) Date 05-10-2007 07:11
Hello makeithot, I have four "rugrats", the last of them is 15 now. When he was born my wife's doctor was a close family friend. Prior to his birth,  my wife and I talked about birthing and I said that I wished that I could have something to do with the delivery of the little guy. She mentioned this to her doctor and he said I could certainly handle the birthing. So....., he watched over my shoulder and I proceeded to take care of seeing my youngest into the world with his close coaching and direction. Definitely one of the most awesome things I have ever experienced. It's kind of funny how when it's something as personal as your own that it has such a powerful impact. I think about that moment often. All of my kid's are special to me, yet the youngest falls under a slightly different light. They do grow up fast, so enjoy each and every moment. Regards, Allan
Parent - - By Tommyjoking (****) Date 05-10-2007 10:04 Edited 05-10-2007 10:07
Sourdough

LOL

I got 5 (yeah count em 5) my friend. A few things i can say for sure...I am fertile...I can knock up a women with a hard stare...I love kids.

The best moments of my entire life revolve around my kids...whether bad or good moments...emergency room visits or celebrating a home run hit....my kids make my day every day.  Bad thing is (expecially when you work for living like us) it passes in the wink of an eye it seems.   So dont let none of it pass by you that you can help.  Trust me you will live for it one day.

Dammit all these kids keep me from getting that new bike/welder/truck/beer/....but when I stop and think about it....there more fun than all of those things.

BTW i have a stepdaughter who is bound and determined to follow in daddys footsteps   LOL    I want to open up my own fab shop just to put her to work LOL!!
Parent - - By Sourdough (****) Date 05-11-2007 03:53
Already know it. When I go out of town for a week, he's bigger and knows better tricks! Won't let it slip by, like my folks.

Promise!
Parent - - By MDG Custom Weld (***) Date 05-11-2007 17:36
Yep, Tommyjoking hit it on the head.  It was just a few months ago they were born (or so it seems), and now the little man is 3, and little sis is turing 1 this weekend. 

Wow, it really does go fast!!

He loves to work in the shop with me.  I always make him wear safety glasses and ear pulgs, now he acts like the little safety officer.  It dosen't matter who it is, or what we are doing, he stops everybody at the door and says "you gotta have glasses on, were workin n here".  Even when mom comes out to tell us it's dinner time, he stops her "don't have time momma, were workin n here and you don't have glasses on"

Sure, now we work at a much slower pace when he's helping, but the longer it takes, the more time he and I spend "workin" together...Wouldn't trade it for the world!!
Parent - By Tommyjoking (****) Date 05-12-2007 08:10 Edited 05-12-2007 08:17
dang I envy you MDG

Me and the wife were just talking a bit tonite about how I want to get a good AC/DC rig and teach my Duaghter some ropes...  heck she could make a little xtra cash and have somthing solid to fall back on if colledge don't work out as planned...That was pretty funny man...Little safety officer LOL.   I dressed my son up as a welder when he was like four for halloween....leathers, jackson shadow hood, and big blue guantlets that went up to his elbows....took pictures....funny as all get out with the hood on and down he looked like a welding muppet or somthing.

billvanderhoof

"Teenagers are wierd, if yours has half of his hair died green and a ring in his nose but gets home late because he stopped to help an old lady change a tire you've done well."

I could not have said it any better....that was friggen great man.
Parent - By johnnyh (***) Date 03-22-2010 18:12
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