Wow

[pb4ou]

My son turned 6 months old today. It's gone by so fast. Wow, half a year.

http://img312.imageshack.us/img312/2952/1cake3yp.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[soonerbrat]

happy half bday, little one :)

that's a cool looking cake, btw..looks tasty

[yermom]

is that half a candle?

[pb4ou]

heh, maybe

[handcrafted]

Heh, don't talk to me about going by fast. For me the last *4 1/2 years* have gone by like yesterday. I can't have been a Dad that long. Can I?

:confused:

[crawfish]

4 1/2 years, nothing. The last 13 years feels like six months sometimes. :(

[Mjcpr]

Pffft, you're all high. To me, the last 43 weeks have felt more like 3 1/2 months.

[soonerbrat]

i'm getting confused.

[pb4ou]

Here is my little guy, Happy Half B-Day Buddy

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/8527/feb20060038xu.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Czar Soonerov]

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/7259/pb4oubaby3ec.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Stanley1]

heh

[pb4ou]

you're crazy Czar, Heh

[Octavian]

4 1/2 years, nothing. The last 13 years feels like six months sometimes. :(

your teens and early twenties just fly by anyway

[OklahomaTrombone]

Regarding Time:


Didn't the Sun Just Set Twice? Readers should enjoy the fun new book The Velocity of Honey by Jay Ingram, which concerns whether everyday truisms can be scientifically confirmed. Finding that hit home to me: it's actually true that time seems to speed up as you age. The internal biological clock runs more slowly each year, Ingram says, while the world continues to run at the same speed; this makes time seem to accelerate. Suppose in youth your internal clock ran at 100 units per hour, and the world ran at the same speed. In middle age your internal clock is down to 50 units per hour while the world continues to run at 100 units; this causes you to perceive the world as running at 200 units. As we were putting up the Christmas stuff last month, I thought, "Didn't we just take this stuff down?" Whereas when I was a boy there was nothing, nothing farther away than Christmas. The Velocity of Honey contends that our internal clocks are gaining speed, thus making time seem to pass slowly, only until about age 20; from then on the internal clock is losing speed and the passage of time seems to quicken. This may make sense in evolutionary terms, since natural selection only "cares" about the fitness of an animal until the age of reproduction, leaving us to our fates after that. As someone who feels the acceleration of time keenly -- my oldest is a 6-foot-3 high-school junior, and it just wasn't that long ago he was sleeping on my shoulder -- let me extend the standard advice to the young: Enjoy every day because the days are few. A person who lives the current American life expectancy gets about 29,000 days on this Earth. When you're young that may seem like an infinity; you will be amazed how quickly it seems like a rapidly diminishing shortage.

http://www.superbowl.com/news/story/9185158


Finally, many readers weighed in on the topic of why time seems to accelerate as we age. Don Scott suggested, "When we are younger, each unit of passing time is fractionally larger. One year of my 16-year-old daughter's life is 1/16th of her total life span, while one year of my life is 1/46th, which is why it seemed to her to take forever to get her driver's license, and it seems to me like I just got mine." He adds, "At least for us older readers it will seem like no time before the 2006 season starts." Deanna Julich of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, similarly supposed, "As we age, each year seems to pass faster because it becomes a smaller percentage of the life already lived. When you're four, a year is 25 percent of your life, so it feels like a long time. When you're 25, like I am, a year is four percent of the life you've lived. When you're 63, a year is only 1.58 percent of your life. Each unit of time seems to go by faster because it shrinks as a portion of your life." Barry Fox of Helena, Mont., adds, "To a three-year-old, living until the fourth birthday requires living 33 percent of their entire life span again. To a 60-year-old the same year represents less than two percent of life span. The 60-year-old would need to live to 80 to pass through 33 percent of life span again -- and that too would seem like quite a long time." Don Kemler of Alkmaar, the Netherlands, supposes it's not the passage of time but changes in the supply we are sensing: When there's a lot of your own life ahead, time seems plentiful and when there's less ahead, time seems scarce. Sean Thompson of Burton, Ohio, supposes that with each passing year, we have more memories; the memories get stacked and squeezed in our brains and hence seem closer together. Douglas Harms of Hollywood, Calif., supposes, "As we grow older, we gain more responsibilities and unavoidable nuisances that must be dealt with; nothing makes valuable time disappear faster than a set of dodge-proof chores." Greg Miskin of Bellevue, Wash., suggests time seems to accelerate because we become accustomed to its passage: "The first occasion you drive to a new location seems to take a long time. Subsequent trips pass more quickly. This can be attributed to the amount of attention paid during the first trip that is not required afterward. During the first run, we don't know what is important so we pay attention to everything. After the first time, the mind only needs to keep track of the few significant landmarks. Much of life is this way." Ken Leiphart of Camp Hill, Pa., supposes, "Time drags when you are a kid because you can't wait to grow up, then flies when late in life because you'd much rather not get older."

That last speculation gets, I fear, to the core of the matter. When we're young, we want time to speed up and therefore it crawls. When we're old, we want time to slow down and therefore it flies. Nature's revenge is giving us the opposite of our wish. My 10-year-old, Spenser, cannot wait for VI:XXXVIII Eastern on Sunday and the start of the Super Bowl -- he says it's taking much too long. From my perspective, kickoff will come all too soon.


http://www.superbowl.com/news/story/9201385

[oumartin]

congrats to you. as I am typing this I am transferring my first sons video to DVD. makes me very sad to see them little. wish they'd never get old.
My first son grew up on video.

[soonerbrat]

congrats to you. as I am typing this I am transferring my first sons video to DVD. makes me very sad to see them little. wish they'd never get old.
My first son grew up on video.




are you crazy? i'm ready to kick mine out of the house!!

j/k, they are great..my son will be off to college in a year.

[Tailwind]

Happy 6 mos little guy. He's cute! Just wait til he's almost 30.....then you feel really old.

[OU-HSV]

Congrats pb4ou, my son is swiftly approaching the 1 year old mark..I know what ya mean, it's flown by (other than the first couple months)

[olevetonahill]

Wow My oldest son turns 33 this year :eek:
My baby Girl is gonna be 28 :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Seems just like yesterday they were just as CUTE as yours ;)
Great looking young man .grats to you

[olevetonahill]

and for what its worth My youngest Grand daughter turns 4 tomorrow :cool:
Dayum im old

[Tailwind]

Yup. You sure are. And I'm right behind you. (I think.)

[olevetonahill]

Yup. You sure are. And I'm right behind you. (I think.)
dont stand to close :)