My daughter enjoys riding dirt bikes and that is something we share. She has certainly improved over time but she continues to give us some memorable stories.
The first story is about her somehow clipping the neighbors large tree as she tried to navigate between it and our garden. The result was her basically going over the handlebars of her little 50cc Suzuki. She was sore and bruised for a long while but she got back on shortly after that and continues to ride. I am proud of her for not giving it up after that - many kids would have. Now when she gets hurt in other activities we use this as a way to get a relative severity level "which hurt worse this or when you hit the tree". So far the tree is still the winner - hoping and praying it stays that way.
We now have another tree story. We planted 7 fruit trees this spring - 3 apple, 2 peach and 2 cherry. We placed the peach trees near the garden, the cherry trees out front and the apple trees along our road. We thought the peach trees died since they had no signs of leafing out. One day I was working out in the driveway and watching my daughter go around the house on her motorcycle. At a certain point I realized that she had not come around and I could not hear her. I admit to a panicked feeling but as I started around the house I saw her walking towards me while taking her helmet off. She didn't look hurt and then I saw it. The dirt bike laying in the grass and one of the peach trees ripped out the ground. Her first words were "sorry". I was so thankful that she wasn't hurt! She was concerned that I would be mad about the tree. I still don't know exactly what happened but she sometimes goes a little too fast and probably wasn't quite looking where she should have been. It was a lesson learned the hard way.
A bright note is that I put the "dead" tree back in the ground and wrapped its "boo boos" with burlap and told my daughter that it seemed dead already. The funny thing is that the accident was over a month ago and we just noticed leaves finally sprouting from that tree. It is still wrapped in burlap where the bark got scrapped/ripped down. No idea of what the end result will be but we are claiming that the tree is "fighting through damage".
Oh, and the "taking after mom" part of this posts subject is because my wife backed our truck into some bushes one time. No damage to them or us but for a while we nick named her "bush killer". I'm thinking I should be the one to teach the kids to drive when the time comes.. :)
In the mean time, I should find more time to play "follow the leader" with my daughter on dirt bikes and avoid getting close to the large immovable objects.
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