Nicknames

Have you ever stopped to think about where your nickname came from or why you call your children certain things? My children have no formal nicknames. We call Madolyn "Mads", but never Maddie. Fiona is Fiona and Amelia is Amelia. Not a big fan of formal nicknames, but a HUGE fan of pet names for them. Right after Madolyn took her first steps and used to follow me around the house I started calling her "short stuff". She could never reach anything and was always standing on her tiptoes. So it stuck.


Fiona's nickname was also a physical characteristic.Fiona is now 20 months old. When Fiona was 2 weeks old we took her to the doctor and she had already gained 2 pounds since birth. The nurse called her "chunky monkey". We called her chunky monkey for awhile, but i soon realized that this physical description could one day leave nasty scars and I didn't want to be responsible for that. But now it has changed it to either stinker bomb, which i do not call her in public because i guess that nickname could screw her up too. Huh oh, I better work on a new nickname for Fiona, otherwise she is going to be able to blame everything on me when gets older!


Amelia is almost 6 months and we have not come up with a pet name for her yet. I love her middle name so I usually call her Amelia Margaret. I will let you know when i come up with a name for her.
I never had a nickname. At least not one that anyone said to my face. Huh oh??