Simple Pleasures

We'll be going to a dinner soon where you're either supposed to wear a hat or a mask, so last night we stopped by a party store to pick up some masks. When we got back out to the car, Doni opened the package to try one on. Knowing that Ava is easily entertained by novel things, she slowly raised the mask up to her face and, in her Zorro-esque beauty, briskly turned around to face Ava. If you had only seen Ava's face, you would have thought she was being tickled by a dozen clowns slipping on banana peels. Apparently this was the funniest thing Ava had experienced in her short life.

She laughed and laughed and laughed. When she would catch her breath she would yell for more. She literally laughed until she cried! It was impossible to not join her in laughing. I can only imagine if someone had looked into our car on the highway... The three of us laughing, a masked Doni, and a joyfully crying baby.