Jesus is my Baby Daddy
The Salty Dog was filled with many delights. We'd ride bikes down there to see the "cat kitty meow"--Elsie's multi-word name for "cat." At the beginning of our Thanksgiving break, in fact, we found "cat kitty meow" in the toy bin at the General Store so from then on we'd beeline for said bin in search of cat kitty. Elsie enjoyed the playground there, lunch there, ice cream there, beers there--well, maybe that was her parents, as well as the Salty Dog parrots and t-shirts.

With Christmas coming, though, this season held new South Beach attractions: Santa and snowmen displays, Santa himself, as well as an Elsie-sized nativity scene. Our little nugget got to try out some of her favorite barnyard calls: "hee haw," "baaa," "meow" (the "cat kitty" was napping in the manger scene), and she also got to see baby Jesus who she affectionately called "Daddy"--a highly functional term for Daddy, Mommy, and all other babies. Obviously, Grammy is proud of the religious devotion of her granddaughter.