The conversation is charged with childlike excitement and great anticipation.

The sight filled her with childlike excitement.

Sean had never expected such childlike excitement from one usually so cold and contained.

His hazel eyes were wide with wonder and a kind of childlike excitement, if not innocence.

The secret leaked out, as it always did, and everyone was involved, all of them overcome with a sweet childlike excitement.

"And in North Adams," he said with a trace of childlike excitement, "you can see 71-Hotel!"

The dolphin carried the TV reporter across the top of the water; she closed her eyes and squealed with childlike excitement.

"It's a childlike excitement at the possibilities."

With a mix of childlike excitement and anxiety, Bob used to wonder exactly who would be meeting him "to take me to the other side."

But a childlike excitement overtook him on Friday afternoon, and all the awkward ambiguities suddenly gave way to concrete appraisals.