Schmoopy McNicknamerson
It’s probably not a good idea. Eh. BUT I HAVE TO DO IT! I’ll tell you my crime if you promise to hear my shameless excuse. Deal? Deal!
Here it is. I am a bit of a cheesy, silly nickname-oholic. Especially with my kids. There! I said it.
“My dad calls it ‘treating me like an adult.’ Others might call it child labor.”
Okay! How could I NOT call this guy Captain Lucas Maximus!?!
I know some people consider this bad for “child development,” whatever that means. But in a way I can agree with this, though. I try to talk to my boys as if they’re real people, adults who alternate between being either very charming or totally anti-social a##holes, but adults in any case. Just miniature. People could easily argue that my calling them really strange, syrupy nicknames puts a bit of damper on this approach.
To demonstrate how mentally unstable my nicknaming can get, let’s look at a before and after. When I was a kid, one of our family cats was named Coffee. She was Siamese, so in “kid logic” this name was considered a stroke of pure genius. But once my nickname generator powered up and went to work for a few years, I wound up calling her…
Warfsconesbalitscones. Said like: wharf-scones-bah-leet-scones with a rolling Scottish “r”. Uhhhh, I… I really have no explanation. I throw myself on the mercy of the jury. I plead insanity!
I call my wife “Darlin’” (never with a g) and she calls me Honesy (hon-ay-sie). This is when we aren’t calling each other super, crazy dorky names, sometimes with various foreign accents.
I’ll call all my boys “lad” or “man lad” by default. But let’s look at some of the crazinames I’ve given them individually. For Cody? Codeman, Code-ba-bope, Truman Capody and Codymandu (like Katmandu… sort of). For Max? Mad Max is obvious, but Fuzz-to-the-Bootnius-Man-Lad-One is not so obvious. Good for a password, maybe?
And now Lizzie has jumped in, full on, with Lucas. What started as Buddy, became Buggy, then Buggizna, and finally Bugginya. We’ll sing the 1935 Cole Porter song “Begin the Beguine” to him but altered to “When you begin, begin the Bugginya…” HEY! I warned you at the begginning! We are totally in-f##king-sane!
“WhuchootalkinaboutWillis! What did you just call me?”
Shut! UP!!! It’s YOUR fault, you cutie patooties!
I’ll call them these names without a second thought, and they don’t bat an eyelash. When we’re out and about though, well that’s different. I’ll call out to one of them with one of my crazy, homemade quilts of a name and then the metaphorical hairs on my neck will stand up, like a movie hero sensing a sniper taking sight, I know someone’s taken notice. I turn my head, slow like a heavy statue being rotated by ropes, and then I smile awkwardly at the puzzled bystander staring blankly at me. Heh! What can I say… I’m insane? I come from another planet? I have the emotional maturity of a boy who was raised by puppies?
Plan B. I just shrug and chuckle. And then walk away quickly.
So, what’s my excuse to all of you for this? How do I take my desire to call my boys things you’d name a baby unicorn or a comic strip character and reconcile it with my desire to treat them like adults? Drum roll… I call regular adults redorkulous nicknames, TOO! So I AM treating them the way I treat adults! Ha ha! Loophole? Yeah, I’m good, I just jumped through it, thanks.
The best part is that now that Cody and Max are older and I don’t call them these names very often, for special moments, I can make the lights flicker and their hearts soar by calling them by one of their nicknames. If the moment is right, I think I will always be able to do this. Provided they don’t grow up to be pierced and tattooed emo parent haters, of course.
My second line of defense in all of this: I KNOW MOST OF YOU OTHER PARENTS DO THIS, TOO! To quote Darth Vader: “Search your feelings, you know it to be true!” Admit it! What craziness have YOU called your kid? Huh?
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Damn right I do this! I hardly ever call my daughter by her own name. Well, the last few months I TRY my best to use her name, because, well, she’s 1,5 years old and she has yet to learn her own name, and I wouldn’t want her to think her name is “feeneemeenee-bobble-bee” instead of Fien (pronounce Feen), of just “smurf” (I’m Belgian after all), of “crazy chicken” (but in Dutch, of course, not in English)…
Often I just string some letters together to call her a cute name, but that tends to backfire a lot… If you don’t think about which letters you use, you sometimes call her something completely insane. I have to stop that when she gets older and understands what I call her, I suppose…
Don’t sweat it. Completely insane means you’ve struck gold. Look at it this way. Serial killers and evil dictators probably weren’t called goofy love-inspired names. So, it’s my belief that we’re better if not actually saving the world by raising kids that aren’t dysfunctional because of love deprivation.
But maybe you shouldn’t listen to someone who wound up calling their pet cockatiel “Fugazzerwitzen.”
Zoe is the real name. I started with the obvious ZOOy. Then came Zowy. Or Zooey-Zoe-Zo-Zowy-Zowzers. And Burrito.
“Burrito” = RAAAAADDDDD!!!
Glad I’m not alone.
Ashley, which the kids would say ahhshe, then ahi. Which of course the mental leap was to calling her Tuna.
I always called her Nugget from birth.
And pork chop.
Chunk
And of course slow poke, or speedy, depending on her mood.
These are all rad. I love Nugget. [insert envy here] Damn! I can’t use it, even though Lucas is still Nuggetizeable. Taking someone else’s nicknames is like giving yourself one, YOU JUST CAN’T DO IT.
We do this all the time! For a time my daughter was Peanut, Mrs Peanut, or Mrs P. she’s also been Stinky, kidlet, miss miss, and a host of others…. But now at 2 years old the one that’s stuck is Jonesy. We get a LOT of weird looks for that one.
The weirder the bystander looks, the better the nickname.
My son’s name is Kye so I call him Kaiser as in Wilhelm which is even more funny in your comparison to toddlers being little dictators. We also often call him Stinky Pants but my favorite is “Kaiser von Stinkend Hosen” said with your best high pitched German scientist accent.
Okay. That’s f##king rad in multiple countries. Brilliant!
My son is 1, and of course while preggo, I called him peanut til we could come up with his actual name. His nicknames now have nothing to do with his name. There is the normal “Bub” or “Bubby” that I somehow turned into “Bubbers” and then there is “Mr. Man”, “Mr. Handsome Man”, and my hubby likes to call him “Hunk of Love” I wonder if he will ever learn he has a normal name?? Oh well. Nicknames are fun and if I were in a store and heard you call your kids by a nickname like you listed above, Well, I would just assume you must be an awesome loving dad cuz that’s what parents do. I would imagine that most of the weird looks must come from non-parents. Rather than seem awkward about it, just know that they will be there too at some point. I LOVE NICKNAMES!!!!
LOL! NICKNAME LOVERS UNITE!!!!
Nicknames, to me, are my way of extra lovey-ness. Plus… if I use their nicknames out in public, strangers wouldn’t dare same them and both kids would look at a stranger like they had 3 heads if they did! Bonus! My boy is Boo. Now that he’s in 5th grade, we only use that at bedtime..he’s too cool, you know! My girl, I wanted to make sure that when she got to school, no one could hurt her feelings by making her name a silly rhyme. Sarah beara, kanera, finara, fe fi filidy era. That evolved into Berry and she’s proud of it. Go ahead bullies, she isn’t scared of you! So there!!
Screw bullies. As they say in parts of middle America, “Ya done did good.”
I usually call my 10 month old son “Booger”, “Stinker”, “Turkey”, “Buddy”, or “Dude”.
My 11 year old daughter (when she was a baby) was called “Doodle-Bug”.
Ugh! Love it. We use “Booger” and I use “Dude” from time to time, but Lizzie doesn’t like it when I call them that for some reason. Probably because when she flips her lid in a “WTF, RIGHT!?!” way, she uses, “DUDE!!!!” Ha ha! Good times.
My Max is only 9 months old, so I haven’t had the time to come up with the REALLY crazy ones yet. But so far we have – Maxman, MaxiBillion, and MonkeyMax.
You’re well on your way! Enjoy the journey, you’ve got a million miles more of crazy names ahead.
We have Violet, who has been V, Baby V, BV, Violator, Voilet, Volty, and others. She’s 13 now and I have to think of some good emo nicknames for her. :rolling eyes:
Maxwell is 6 and we have called him Max, Maxie, Maxinator, Maxito, Lil Man Max, Maxwell-ell-ell-ell-ell, etc etc.
The animals’ names are sillier. We have Indy-Lee-Lou-Badcat F. and Farley-Ron Burgundy-Blue Steel F.
I’m sure I’ll post this & immediately think of 165 more that we use all the time.
Amazing! Birds of a feather. Love it!
My 3.5 y/o (Ryleigh): Started as Peanut (seems common enough), then Bean, the Beanicus, Monster and most recently Bean Stalk. My 10 day old (Jackson): Squeaker (he squeaks), Sir Squeaks A-Lot, Squeaks McGee.
Jack and the Bean Stalk seem to be their combined nicknames.
YES!!! I tip my hat. Genius.
Our little Rhiannon is usually called Peanut, or Rhi-nut. My wife has taken to calling her Peanut Butt.
Love it! Peanut Butt and Jelly sandwich please.
Oddly enough, that’s what we call group hugs.
Ha ha! We definitely use the same brand of crazy.
Baby no. 1: Booboo butt, booger, pumpkin, snookers, nugget, munchkin, the list goes on…
Baby no. 2: Liam-piam, Liam-pie, pie of the Liam, wiggle butt, mr. Man, mr. Liam, bah-bows, bubba, etc etc
Love the crazy nicknames!
Oh yes!!! you reminded me of my all-purpose “Munchkin Man” for any of the boys! Ha ha! Yours are great. I use Mr. Man as well. Lizzie prefers Mister Smister, but she uses it for a lighthearted show of disapproval.
Crazy nicknames forever!!!! (or until they’re old enough that they beg us to stop)
oh yea. I forgot about all the Vons!
Ashley Von ______
twinkles, picky pants, farty butt, poopy pants, sleepy head, nose picker, farfegnugen, blah blah blah blah
Fantastic! I’m a “Mc____” dad myself. Drunky McLad. Lucas McFarty. Maximilien McBooger of Snotsen.
I use the “Mc_____erson”. I am not a parent, but a teacher librarian, so I get to call tons of kids by silly nicknames. Some of my faves are “Ready McBookerson” “Chatty McChatterson” “Talky McTalkerson” “Speedy McSlowdownerson” and “Joe”. As for Joe, I like the name and if I don’t know your name, can’t remember your name, or just want to change your name, I call you Joe. If you lucky you get “Joey McJoerson”.
Love this! You’re completely justified in it, even if I say that to make me and my hubby right in doing the exact same thing. I wont go into the whole how it happened story but our daughter’s main nickname now is ‘Bottom’, this came about after a slew of strange words were attached to her name and shortened to thus. She’ll probably hate us when she’s older.
Ha ha ha! If she does wind up hating you when she gets older, at least you’ll have a name you can throw out at her mid argument that will pretty my nuke any argument you’re waging against each other…
Daughter: “But I love him, Mom! His latest piercing is even a sign of that love for me!!! I hate you! You’re ruining everything!!!”
You: “Bottom! That is quite enough!”
Daughter: “Urg! Eh! No! Whu!?! You didn’t! Auuuughhh!!!” (storms off)
Okay. Maybe I need to shut up now. Give Bottom an extra big hug next one for me and Charlie. And sorry if I just gave you parental nightmares.
When Aine (sounds like Anya) was born, we swaddled her. She looked like a potato. So now she is Potato. Or Aine D or the dookster, dooky dookerson, princess stinky pants–I could go on. I didn’t realize I’m probably scarring her for life. Oops. She eats lots of fruits and veg–she’ll be fine, right?
Oh and Potato is now what my friends call her. “The Potato” when they’re being formal.
I love this. The Potato has a rad mom, you are awesome.
Our four-year-old Violet has, of late, become “Missy Prissy Pants” and will quickly correct me if I don’t add the “Pants” to the end. I hope she always likes her nicknames. She gets a new one about every six months.
My youngest is Dylanator.
…Can’t be bargained with… can’t be reasoned with… doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are have bought that toy? Ha ha!
I’m a nicknamer too. We’ve got a fat stack for our three and a half month old, William. Fat-Stack is actually one of them. He was ‘The Squidge’ from the time we knew about his impending arrival, so sometimes I just call him ‘Squidgey Boy’. The best thing about being a nick-namer is applying it to other situations outside of your your kids ‘hey why don’t you pull over Captain go-slow Mcdrives bad..?’
Totally: nicknames can be a applied in so many ways to so many people. I’ve used them to speak in code to my wife about people my kids know that I don’t necessarily want them going up to that person and saying, “‘I’m just a boy but will you play with me? Daddy said you like to “play around with men a lot.”
P.S. Squidgey needs to be in a dictionary. Radness.
Bwahahahahaha the ‘code’ is an outstanding idea! Although it could still go bad – Hi Mrs Cougertown Mcdropsherknickerston, how are you today?
Now that could be an hilarious parenting video for the tube of youness!
It’s already on our idea list.
My daughter (2.5) called our son (1.5) “Real” when he was born. Because she couldn’t say Gabriel. It stuck, and even though she’s graduated to calling him Gabe, Gabers, or Gabriel, we still him our “Real Boy.”
We adopted a dog from a friend who had to move because of her husband’s job in the military. Her name is Athena, but our friend called her Beaner. Apparently it went Athena, Athener, Weiner, Beaner, or some such progression. She had never heard the term “beaner” used in a derogatory manner and was surprised when she got yelled at by a passerby for screaming, “Stop it, Beaner!” from her porch.
can i say ROTFLMFAO on a family friendly site?
F##k yes. Ha ha!
my daughter started out as munchkin, which then shortened to munchie. Then she turned two and became destructo girl!!.. and now I have started calling her miss moo, though I have no idea where it came from.
my little boy is Owen which of course goes to o-wee – which then became hilarious to my nephews thinking I called him ow-ie (like ouchie) so hes now owie and his cousin beckett is bucket. I’ve also been to known to call him captain destroyer- the sidekick to destructo girl!
Caitlin Rose began life in my tummy as Bo (what we thought was a good non-gender specific name, after Bo Brummell the famous dandy). So I call her …
Bo
Bo face
Caitie Bo
Baby Bo
Caitie Rose
Rose
Rosie
Rosie Girl
Stinky
Stinky pants
Mwnci Bach ( little monkey in Welsh- dad is big monkey, I’m medium monkey and the dig is hairy monkey)
Whingey McSnoozeface ( coz of a previous post of Charlie’s)
… I think that’s the regular ones. She has a whole load of “one-off” ones too. She’s only 11 months. I am a bad mummy.
Bad? Replace the B with an R, woman! You have my respect and obviously your Whingey McSnoozeface has your love. That’s the most important thing.
Okay, you asked for it…first the girls (one is eighteen, and I so love to holler one of these at her across a crowded supermarket)
Pumpkin Pie
Punkin
Spider Monkey
Little Chicken
Chicken Butt
Chicken Pie
Missy Woo
Monkey Nut
Nutball
Knucklehead McSpazatron (okay, I stole that one, so sue me)
Cheese Feet (because girls are sometimes as apathetic toward bathing as boys are)
Veruca Salt (for when they’re whining; I like to follow that one up with “Daddy, I want a squeerel” for a little extra oomph)
WOMAN! (when I’m exasperated)
Rusty, the dog, has his own set of nicknames;
Bubba
Bubby McBubberson
Rusty Lee Rusterson of Kent
(expletive deleted) when he hacks up on the floor, again
And hey, if you’re shouting one of these out in public and someone gives you a weird look, that’s THEIR problem. If they don’t like it, they can go be boring somewhere else.
This is epic. You’re a pro nicknamer.
LMAO at “If they don’t like it, they can go be boring somewhere else”! AGREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDD!!!
My son is 10 months old. So far, his nickname seems to be Goobs. It started as Mr. Magoo, then Super Gooper and then just shortened to goobs. I hardly ever call him his name, Corbin.
That’s awesome. You and your Super Goober have a home here on this site. Okay, maybe not the little one, but you do. We can get a little carried away.
My husband called our son “Etis Arap” while in the womb…
Just rearrange that backwards and drop the space…
Best part is when we told a friend that’s what we were going to name our child, she actually asked in total seriousness if it was a family name.
Not super creative, but our child is certainly “Poopy Monster” on a very regular basis =p
Whoa! Ha ha! By the by, Poopy Monster sounds rad to me.
Kadence’s nicknames are simple, like kadeebug, little lady Kadee…
Our son, though… Josh responds to Boo, which transformed into Boozle, which transformed into Bam Boozle. Poor bubbalub!
It’s all about the insane transformation. It just makes them all the more precious.
We started out calling our son Budddy. When we would walk into the room, we would say “Hi Buddy!” He couldn’t pronounce Buddy, so he would reply “Hi Bubby”… so his nickname morphed into Bubby. Then Boo, then Boo-boo. Sadly, I’ll trip up and callhim Boobie somtimes. He’s really gonna hate me when he’s in third grade!
Ha ha ha ha ha! I called all my boys bubs and bubsie, sort of like a bub and boob pronunciation but maybe said with a crappy Russian accent. It defies spelling. My Bubs, Bubsies, Bubnius of lad. (sigh) We’re all retarded.
I love it!
Dexter, 2 1/2, aka: Dex Man, Deco, Decolator, Dexolittletiny, Decosaurus, Dudester, Big Bro, and Dayk-stayr (when Russian accent)
Maxwell, 6 mos, aka: Maxo, Mackolator, Maxolittletiny, Mack Weld, Maxwell Taxwell (Snackswell, Packswell, etc.), and Maxtralopithecus
Great names and great nicks!
Jonas, my one-year-old, probably only hears his given name at daycare. To me he’s Sweet Pea or Babycakes. To his dad, he’s Baby J and Little Buddy. When he’s in a bad mood, he’s Crankypants McGee. Around his grandparents, he goes by Little Man, Boo-Bear, and Baby Boy in addition to the aforementioned names. If he ever learns his name, it will likely only be because it’s plastered on all of his stuff.
I wanna play! I love this thread!
Son (currently 16)Name: Jourdan Christopher
Nicknames throughout the years:
Punkin
Punkadoodle
Punkinbug
Bug
Punk
Doodlebug
Fat-head
Zippy the wonder seal (that baby stage when they zip around in circles while trying to get comfortable during nap/sleep time, fussing included).
Jourdanavich
Jourdana (when he whines like a girl or bitches)
Jourdan Christina (see above)
Jourdo (most commonly called)
Jourdy Dordy
Jourdy
Daughter (currently 13) Name: Parker Lynne
Nickenames throughout the years:
Boobie
Boob-a-loo
Park-a-fee
Park-a-foo-fee
Park-a-foo-fa-nator
Foo-fee
Foofer
Nate
Nator
Parks
Parks Lynne
Parker Lynne (said like a hick/red-neck)
Dog. Name: Louie
Nicknames throughout the years:
Louie dog
Lous
Lou Lou
Louis Esquire
The Lou Lous
Dog. Name: Scarlet
Nickname:
Scarleeta
Nicknames are fun, I won’t even go into what my husband and I call eachother. It is quite fun though
This is epic. Amazing!!!!!! YOU ARE RAD!!!
I nanny for 15 month old twins and their most recent nicknames are Blue (she’s a tiny and apparently has bad circulation so she turns blue-ish when she’s cold) and Nowen, because saying “No, Owen” over and over again was getting laborious.
Our poor dog gets the worst (best?) of it though. Her name is Curie but she answers to all of these:
Fuffin
Moose
Baby girl
Curington
Madame Curington Fuffinstuff
Dummy
Cooter Sue
Corn Chips
Curious
Vagina Neck
Snuggleston
Cures
The Cure
Stink Butt
Farts McGee
*sigh* I thing we have a problem…
I think your problem is you’re amazing.
My wife Laura wanted a nickname- a pet-name. I guess that cookie, snookie-ookie-woogums, huns, funnyhunnybunny, schnooks, schnookumswookumsyour- and sweetie weren’t cutting it in the first few weeks of being married.
She was always upset she didn’t have a short version of Laura- or a long-version. So I made up the short version for her nickname, it went as follows:
Laura-badora-Galora-Franchesca the Third.
Now I just call her Fran or Franchesca the Third, or even just plain old Franchesca.
Yup= we’re odd too….
Other nicknames in our home, Lucy Caboose, caboosey, allibear- beary Al, Cabooser, lidmeister, lidiamidia, lucinda the great, stinky, squirter, tutor, and potato girl.
By “odd” you of course mean “rad” right? Ha ha ha ha ha! These are brilliant.
Had a cat named shake em if you got em.. a male cat nsmed Artemus la putterpat(for short : putter)… nick name for friends dog Sidney vicious waffle beans biscuit bear… my dog is Aliester but nick names are as followed fluff butt, booboo bear, and Mr. Crowley. … My son is stinky, stinky bear, boogie, goo butt, and Edward Von wiggle pants.
No excuse I am just weird.
Love it. You never need excuse on HTBAD. Welcome!
Lily – Princess Lily of the Red butt lizard clan, delegate to the house flawaffle.
Richard – Richrad, Little Rad
Danny – Double D
…I’m starting to think our naming is getting lazier with each kid…
Ha ha ha ha ha! You started off amazing enough that even if the laziness sets in pretty deep, you’re still WAY ahead of the game. “Princess Lily of the Red butt lizard clan”??? C’mon! In ancient times, Gods had lesser names.
It was so good to read this post and discover that I’m not the only one who goes crazy on the nicknames. Some of these are damn-near embarrassing, but screw it, you shared your dirty little secret so I’m gonna man up too. My son’s name is Dominic Joseph. Here are my nicknames for him:
– Domini Josie
– Domini Dotie
– The Josephine Boy
– The Domini Dotie Boy
– The Dominic Precious Boy
– The Most Precious Boy
– Domini Preshi
– Little Man
– Mr. Man
– Mr. Ed McMan
– Mr. Ed
– Mr. Domini
– Buddy Guy
– Bruiser Boxin Baby Guy
Shew! I feel better now
We have nicknamed our gorgeous red-headed doe-eyed daughter Scarlett “Scar Face” and “Scar Face the Carpathian” we use both in public,and she loves them. My 3-year old son Sage has renamed himself “Zombie Rocket” pronounced shom-ee rocket
My sons first and middle names are Aelwyn Pankraz, so his nicknames tend be a lil crazy. We mostly call him Ael-wa-ninni-an, Punkrat, Pickle *the sound his hiccups make!*, Baby Bunkle/Bunky *derived from ‘Baby Bunkin’ . . . * Monkey Boy *on account of his sticky out ears*, and Mr Baby.
We also occasionally call him Fatty Fat Fat and Tubby/Tubster because of his baby chub 
I have sticky out ears so I love this comment especially. Plus how can you go wrong with Punkrat!?! You can’t.
I am the absolute worst mutilator of names for those I love. The more mutilated the name, the more I love you, lol.
When I was pregnant with my son Bobby, we called him Sprout.
Nicknames:
Sprout, Sproutchules, Pootchules, Pootchules Alexander the Third, Chules (pronounced Chew wuls) Roberto, Roberto Montiglioni, Sweet Ange, Butterfoot, Chubbers, Bee-Boompies, Boompas, and when he was in a bad mood Darth Boomps
My husband has not been spared either, and since we’ve been together since high school, well, you know the drill
Actual name: Andy
Nicknames: Babe, Babycakes, Babums, Babums Shmaybe Waybums, Baumies, Baumie-Joe, Baumiehead, Adolf Mi Baumiehead, Aids (I enjoyed calling him this one in public), Prime Rib, Rib, and Koont
But he is perennially called Baumie-Joe, quite often sang to the tune of “Rock me Amadeus”
Our cat: Eloise
Nicknames: Wheezy, Wheezer, Whack a Wheezer, Whackity Whack don’t talk back, Bockity Bock, Bockity Bock Choy, Bockity Bock Choy Kopi Luwak Hoy, Choyhead
She’s 16 years old and comes to all these names,haha.
I am glad I’m not the only one who does this!
Amazing! I’m glad I’m not the only one too, better than that though, I so glad there are sooooo many others and the nicknaming is so gloriously crazy!
“The more mutilated the name, the more I love you” is 100% undiluted genius!
My husband is crazy with nicknaming our son and I.
Nicknames for me:
Big Egg
Eggy
Mothership
Daddy Fats
(all when I was preggy and threatening to be bigger than him)
Nicknames for baby Dylan:
Boo Boo Coo
Hoimy Hoimy
Mean Herman
Hermaclese Crab
(I have no idea why)
You’re a pro! Ha ha ha! I love it, all of them. And the “I have no idea why.” I’ve been there. Often.
my youngest son has a butt chin, and my wife did not like me calling him buttface when he was a baby, so i nicknamed him Bu-Fas….strangely, she’s ok with this one…. 4 yrs later, he’s still my Bu-Fas (or sometimes shortened to just Boof)
Also, my older son is Gideon, so he’s Gid Vicious, Vicious, Vish the Fish, and sometimes, just Fish
Punker dad for the win.
yessir!
HAHAHA!! I’m so glad I’m not the only one!
My oldest’s nickname is Bubba,but he’s also
Bubbalingo
(the next two are in reference to his particularly stinky diapers because he had digestion issues as a baby)
Bubbastinko
Bubbastinkload
My youngest is Taylor , but goes by Tato.
or
Tatolingy ( a variation of the lingo in Bubbalingo)
Tatopotato
Tatey
Tatten
Both of my kids get called Poodle when they are acting crazy.
Don’t ask.
I call my son a plethora of nicknames as well. Most of them are adorable and nice but when he’s being mean, wait for it, wait for it, I call him meanie weenie chicken head with cooties. Yep.
I also call my husband butter noodle. Not sure how that started.
Thaaaaaat’s a gooood one. I love chicken in it’s use as a nickernamerdoodle but if you think about… chicken heads are frickin’ nasty looking. Butter noodle sounds rad and it makes me hungry.
It’s so awesome of you to actually reply. I know you of course won’t be able to reply to every. single. comment. left. But it’s nice as a reader to know that you’ve been heard. Stumbled upon this blog browsing Pinterest (aka the time suck continuum) The baby neck scarf just kills me. Truth + Humor = Awesome Blog
Ha ha! Wow there are like a whole mixed bag of nuts worth of compliments in here! (blush) I love interacting, I know I won’t be able to keep it up at this level forever, but I’m glad you appreciated it enough to make special mention.
P.S. “Time Suck Continuum” = Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
I’m not a mom, but a friend of a friend is having a baby, and they found your blog! Personally I’d love to adopt one day, and reading the man side of parenting is really insightful and funny.
I call kids and pets crazy names, but I do also try to converse with them like their adults. Except I can’t help but crack up inside when they respond. I work at a Starbucks so I get to talk to a lot of kids.
‘I see you have a bear. Did you name him?’
‘Yes.’
‘Oh, what’s his name?’
-child looks thoughtful for a minute- ‘Bear.’
‘That… is an excellent name.’
I realize this comment is insanely off topic. Whatever. Deal.
*their. Typing fail.
“Off topic” and typographical mangulation of the English language are full accepted on our website. Welcome!
P.S. You’re rad and should have kids or adopt. You will love it and you’ll make some kid a lucky bastard. Yes, I can tell that JUST FROM YOUR COMMENT.
It all started with an episode of Seinfeld where Jerry and his girlfriend call each other “schmoopie”. My husband I called took to calling each other this as a joke. But it stuck…and evolved(devolved?)thanks to the strange workings of my brain.
Now our son bears the brunt of this legacy. Here’s the evolution (downward spiral?):
Schmoopie
Smoopie
Snoopy
Noopy
Noops (this is where we’re stuck now)
Then Henry was born and so he became:
The Nooper
Noo Noo
Noo Noo Bagoonoo
Monkey Noodle
Oh, and when I was pregnant and Henry was wiggling around all the time I nicknamed him Squirmbucket Deluxe.
That sounds like something I’d pay extra for at a restaurant! WIN!
I love how they evolve and then somehow click into one that’s THE ONE or the most used one. Thanks for the share!
And as another commenter mentioned, it IS awesome that you reply to all of these. You are rad.
I am a new follower (addict) and mom to an 11 month old. You call it like it is: full of humor, “mistakes” (do any of us first timers actually know what we are doing?), absurdity and heart-wrenching-never-felt-on-this-scale-before love. Thanks. And sorry to get mushy on you. I’m sleep deprived – even got a roundhouse kick last night.
Wow! You two are melting my brain. (double blush all the way!) Never apologize for getting mushy. I’m not just in touch with my emotions, I’m kinda strangely touchy-feely with them.
I gave up two nights worth of sleep for this week’s work on the blog, so your comment made me feel considerably less stupid for doing so.
our 10mth old girl Lakshmi is currently nicknamed Fluffy – she was born with an insanely full head of hair, none of which fell out or thinned as we were told it would. She inherited my curly hair, which is untameable, and her’s has only become bigger and bigger. Constant bed head, no matter how much I comb it! She’s also called Bundles (short for bundle of joy) and sometimes that becomes Fluffy Bundles.
There’s also sometimes Fwoggy, in honour of the frog we found in our hotel bathroom in India the same year I got pregnant, but only when she’s in a kicky mood.
I think Fwoggy gets the most odd looks…
There was also Nessie when I was pregnant with her, because she wriggled so much I was convinced I was going to give birth to a sea monster…
Ha ha ha ha! I love it! So CUTE!
Just a quick ps, She was emulating her other nickname this morning – Grimble Pants. She’s only a baby, so not able to ge a full adult grumble on, so what she does has been christened “grimbling”…