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My daugher got her first nickname right after her first sonogram. Still in the doctor's office, I snapped a photo of the scan on my phone and e-mailed it to my husband.
"Congratulations," he wrote back. "It's a fractal."
And so she was called for the next few months. Also popular before she was born were "bean," and "Fetelow," a really ingenious combination of fetus and my last name first coined by a dear friend.
After she was born, Veronica has enjoyed or endured (depending on how you look at it) an elaborate parade of nicknames. Popular early on, were:
⁃ Bug
⁃ Doodle
⁃ Pants
⁃ Baby bird
⁃ Face
⁃ Milk leech
As time has passed and we've got to know her a little better (and she's become more interactive), her nicknames have become more complex. Currently, she is known in our house variously as:
⁃ Squirt noodle
⁃ Dork noodler
⁃ Squeaker
⁃ Doodle bot
⁃ Nerd bait
⁃ Geekling
⁃ Wiggles/Giggles
Now, I know she has an uncommon lot of nicknames. So do our cats, though theirs are most rhyming. I've never had a really good nickname, myself, so maybe that's part of the appeal. We've also been trying to find a satisfactory shortening of "Veronica," and so far have been using VRon and VRose interchangeably. I expect her to be either very relaxed about her name or very confused. To be continued, I guess.
Do you or your kids have a fabulous and/or meaningful nickname? How about before they were born?
Thea habitually blogs at Nutgraf.net and Cute or HR?
