Feeling Old

Today Emmett and I went to our friend Nathan's second birthday party. It was up on the other side of town 40 minutes away. Emmett and I had run errands in the morning and were back in the car heading to the party. I feel bad having him in his car seat so much, especially since now that he's crawling (yup crawling...for about a week now) he likes to be able to move. Anyway, on the way home he started to fuss. He's usually a very content car rider, but we'd been in the car a lot, it was close to dinner time, and he took horrible naps. When he starts to scream in the backseat, we usually find some good music and turn up the radio. Typically it quiets him. Tonight was no exception. So, he starts to fuss and I find a station that has music on and turn it up. It ended up being MC Hammer's "Can't Touch This." Well, this was a popular song in the early 90s when I was growing up, so of course I knew the words. I start sing along with the O-Os. I am bobbing my head and shrugging my shoulders while driving down the interstate. In my head I see my self doing the dance to this song. I remember my mom making MC Hammer puffy pants for my brother Scott and him dressing up as MC Hammer for Halloween. He was 6 or 7. Here I am remembering all of this and bopping my head as I go down the road. I look in the mirror at my child in the backseat waving his hand and "singing" along with MC Hammer, and I all of the sudden for the first time, I feel really old. I know I am only in my late 20s (29 next month) and in the big picture am quite young. But do you ever just feel dated and behind the times? It's like time has some how escaped me. In this one moment I just felt aged and behind the times. It was a really weird feeling. Really, when did I get old enough to have a kid, own a house, be married, teach children, and just be where I am? I like where I am in life but really how did I get from asking my parents if I could use the car or stay out past 11pm to here? Like I said time just slipped through my fingers. Just weird.