This past week we had some unusual high temperatures.  For about three days the high rose to the sixties.  I caught a bit of spring fever.  I am very eager to spending more time outside, such as camping and taking Charlie for strolls around the neighborhood.  Maybe by the summer he will be able to walk well enough that we can begin having some good times at the local playground.  I already see that year two for Charlie will be a complete change for me.  Just last year at this time, Charlie would sit motionless in a bouncy seat and now, as I type this, he is crawling around winging toys around.  My friend jokingly-truthfully told me, “Bring on the back-talking, sassy, and always crazy year two!” I have already witnessed a smidgen of this.  Charlie has begun to be more vocal and emotional when events don’t go his way.  Just being a observer to change is one my greatest wonders of Life.  Examining why and why not humans change, how or how not humans adapt to change, and when humans accept or don’t accept change.  In my life, there seems to be a fine line between myself actually changing and moving along with the changes in my environment.  I guess the difference in these situations is jumping head first into the change versus attempting to be completely prepared for the change.  

Or in other words, going with the flow versus learning everything that could happen in the flow and then going with the flow.

 In nature, change can be random.  A animal is just as likely to grow a thick coat of fur as it would grow no hair when living in the Arctic.  However, the animal with the thick fur has a greater chance to survive, thus being able to pass on the genes of “grow thick fur” to the next generation.  In Charlie’s year two, overall there will be many changes for Daddy Selfwalker.  Some of which I will be prepared, some of which I will have to go with the flow, and some of which I’ll randomly figure out.  Change on…