First times

When we went to the Dairy Queen, Nova didn't ask for a cone or sundae because she'd never had one before. She didn't know what soft ice cream was.
(With Grandpa's help, that's over now :-)

And on her birthday, she was happy just playing with a horse helium balloon, because she had no idea what that stack of wrapped presents was.

Here's what a 2-year-old can teach us: we'd be happier if we enjoyed the goodness that happened to come along. The present moment and the single gift-- without anticipating the next one. Watching Nova is a reminder of that short time before we were taught to have expectations about ice cream stores and what happens on birthdays.

Transported to a dream world on a cloud of soft ice cream...

Remember your first Dairy Queen?