"Why are you walking Dakota?"

Yes, friends, I am growing up... After nagging my parents with "What is...?" questions for the past months, I am now getting into the "Why...?" questions... And I started this morning with my first one: "Why are you walking Dakota, papa?". I should have know the answer because my papa explained it to me a number of times, plus I've been walking Dakota myself... But I figure that today was the day to switch from "What?" to "Why?", and this was simply the first thing that offered me the opportunity to ask a "Why?" question... This means that my parents have to read up on lots of stuff to ensure that they can actually respond to my questions... And papa is glad to work for a forest certification organization - one more motivation for him to actually learn about trees....