What do you call your child?
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Topic: What do you call your child?
Posted By: daikini
Subject: What do you call your child?
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 1:42pm
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I'm just curious... what nickname/s do you and/or your partner have for your children, and when did you start calling them it?
Kiya: I call her "Bubble", and have since she was a couple of days old. Nat calls her "Missy-Bee". He started calling her "Missy" about the time we got engaged, so when Kiya was 2.5yo, and its developed into "Missy-Bee" in the last six months. Josiah: I sometimes call him "Little Lion", and Nat calls him "JP" (Josiah Phillip). Both nicknames have been around from when he was a couple of weeks old. Xavier: I call him "Grubblet", and have since he was a month old. Nat doesn't really have a nickname for him yet. We thought about "Xav" (zave) but it doesn't really work as we chose to prononce his name Ex-sav-ee-er ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
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Posted By: MILF
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 1:55pm
we call xanthe "xanthe boo", have since she was a baby, or little miss. Dh calls xanthe "jo",as in "lets go jo" and she says it back to him. its really cute 
Jordis is "jordi girl" along the lines of the song georgie girl  and bubba. ------------- Lyla - mum to Xanthe - my big 4 year old 
and Jordis - 1 year old 
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 2:05pm
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Hannah has quite the selection of names... she started out as "Hannah Bird" and "Munchkin" and "Munchy" (those from Jute)
Now gets called "Hanny" "Hannahby" "Hanny Bumble" "Bumble Bee" "Monster" "Monkey Kid" "Demon Child" "Devil Child" "Devily" "Dev" annnnd occasionally gets called "Hannah". 
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Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 2:34pm
jack gets called 'cracker and jack sprat'. my FIL calls him jacky which annoys me 
charli gets 'chub chub mostly and also bubby, bubba'  ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 2:35pm
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Ella is Sausage, Saus, or Sausagee, Ella Bella, Ella-G, Ella Bambini, Pickle, or Ellabee.
Benjamin is Noodle, Noo-Noo, Benjy, Ben, Benjabin (Ella couldn't say Benjamin) Beefy, and Hubby calls him Mr Muggles. ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: Myamy
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 2:39pm
| how terribly sad but Mya has no nickname.. We chose the name a couple of days after findin out i was pregnant and it hasnt changed! |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 2:41pm
Never fear... my friends decided that Hannah needed a nickname that she hated, to see her through the rest of her life, and came up with "Red Rat" so that's what they now call her. Just be glad you escape that.
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Myamy wrote:Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 2:46pm
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Andrew gets called monkey and monster. Joshua we call the little monster but i'm sure we will get a new one for him. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Two Blondinis
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 2:53pm
LMAO!!!!! Poor Hannah! 
Hmmm lets see.... When I was pregnant "it" was called "The Kicker" as we didn't know what flavour she was and she was VERY active! Now she's know as Bubs, Bubba, Bubba-licious, Bubbi, Blondini (most popular), Laa-Laa (dunno where that came from?!?!), Kitty Kat Caitlin (I gave her that one pretty early on and blame the hormones  ), Princess (second most popular (My Dad always call me and my sis this)), and when she's been "naughty" it's always  CAITLIN LILLY!!! hehe Which isn't that often.------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
 
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 3:07pm
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he he, in that case, Ayja gets AYJA NICOLE!!! very often... lol.
Paris used to be called "poppy" - by my older sister which i really hated that as a nickname (don't ask me why..) and told her to STOP! I tend to call her "fluffy kitten", hairy mclary or muffin mclay - yes we do read a heck of a lot of lynley dod books! but she does look pretty fluffy and hairy usually cos her hair is so unruly. but mainly i just call her paris. Mike calls her "princess". Ayja, I call "Ay-ja baby", always have since we named her long before i had her, that's most of the time or "ay-ja bear", then there's monkey, and "what-the-heck-are-you..don't you dare..noooo what are you doing?" anyone would think that's her name as i have to say it so often! lol. Mike calls her Angel.. I think that is a little ironic..(he he, or demonic) ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: puck
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 3:11pm
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Daniel has been called Moo since he was a few weeks old. I have no idea why and kinda pity him for it. Can't seem to shake it and now most of the family call him that. Have a sneaking suspision it came from being called mister moo but that won't make it any easier to bear at 21 me thinks. Whats worse is his grandmother calls him daniel spaniel.... thank god she in another country. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 3:31pm
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Jacob gets called Fatty, JJ or Jake Jake and JACOB THOMPSON!!! When he is being naughty and Charlotte gets called Charly (shar-ly), Charly Warly, and missy. Will probably change I imagine, at some stge, althoguh Jake hads always been called fatty... That comes from him beign a hungry hippo when I used to feed him, I used to sing a made up song to him about him being a hungry hungry hippo! lol! ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: james
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 3:47pm
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james is bubba or fatt bum lol because the poor boy has my big fat bum
and hemi is hemiy wemiy bemiy bum lol i made that up since he was a new born oh how much is he gonna love his unty when he grows up lol ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: Carmel
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 3:57pm
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Piper is mainly called Bubba, Trouble and sometimes the odd Pumpkin
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Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 3:59pm
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Bay has been 'MONKEY' right from the start because hes cheeky and has big ears! hehe Dh even got a monkey tattoo on his arm with big blue eyes because Bay is his little monkey man with big blue eyes most of the family call him monkey too. We also call him 'SON' or 'SON SON' yup very common but that just stuck. We also call him 'BUBBA', it kind of ultinates depending on the need to call his name eg - SON is a general one but the only one we use when he gets in trouble, Bubba when hes being a good boy and monkey is just a general one.
We never give him the whole name thing when hes being naughty because wed forget about what we were growling him about by the end of his name!!! 'BAILEY WAYNE DUNCAN E******' just too much of a mouthful! lol
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 4:20pm
| Ella-G, Bella Bear, Bubba Bear, Chubba Bubba, missy moo or just plain EEEELLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA haha |
Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 4:48pm
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I call Nyah "Ny-Ny" or Madam; hubbie calls her little princess and Conor gets called Bub or son; which has stopped since he's now 11 and doesn't answer to them much anymore. ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 5:07pm
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Hey CaraMel, is that 'Ella-G', as in Ella Grace?!? Is there a third Ella Grace out there?? Holy Molowly! Well, it is a lovely name Our girl used to hear "chicken" from me all the time (due to her reddish hair that always stands straight up at the back!). More recently, I can't stop calling her "angel Grace" or sometimes "sweet-pea". Her daddy will nearly always refer to her as "darling girl"... I used to wonder where that came from and thought what a lovely name it was, coming from her Dad, and then I saw a video of me with her when she was about an hour old, and he says she's "so cute!" and I corrected him and said she's our darling girl - weird! ------------- Andie |
Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 5:14pm
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Nope, she's Ella Jasmine. Our surname begins with G.
I do agree though, Ella Grace is a lovely name ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and:
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Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 5:24pm
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Isla was known by everyone as Peanut until she was born , and we also called her NuNu which has stuck.
We mainly call her Princess, which turns into Princess S*** Balls when shes being a poo! |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 7:24pm
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Well we have the whole shortened name thing going on most of the time, it goes a bit like this:
Hannah, Hannie, Han, Hannie-girl, cutie-girl, and occasionally Missy-Moo to make her laugh Briona (sounds like Fiona), Bria (Bree-a), Bub, Little Bub, Little Missy, and Binona or Nona is what Hannah calls her, she used to be Baby Bria in the early days Krystiana, Kryssi (more common), Krysti, and BAAAby! from Briona lol
Briona is the same - Briona Stacey Ruth A***, when she was a baby I used to tell her not to worry cause she'd grow into it in time. She would have just been Briona Ruth except that I noticed the initials in time!  ------------- |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 7:26pm
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btw... I'm really liking the new tickers lately - Babysmum, Kells, Becca.l, Kazzle, and someone else had a 'piglet' ------------- |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 8:04pm
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my step-mum calls everyone "y" as in Jakey and Tainey - i hate that.
we call Jake Bub a lot. i found calling a newborn weird and we stuck to bubba a lot. it stuck. we also do "mr Moo" Taine i call pookey for some reason. my dog was called pokey - no relation. |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 8:08pm
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I still call fatty "bubba" and lil man, charly also gets called bubba, from Jake, and lil girl. ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 9:15pm
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Rhyley is 'chubba bubba'
Brooke is Brocoli or brookie (although she thinks she is gettig too old for Brookie but me mum can call her it still) Joshua - is just Josh ------------- Ann 
Also Mum to Josh (15) and Brooke (10) |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 9:28pm
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Oh i forgot some more i call her Basta when shes being norty and also Ellabasta Pwincess
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Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 9:46pm
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Okay McKayla had so many of her short lifespan so far. First time we saw her on a scan she was 2mm and we called her spot, Then beanie and blob at 5 weeks. And then alien and jelly bean from there.
When she was born hubby called her Puku and still calls her that. I use to call her Mrs Grinch. I dont know if any of you know if I talk about the movie called The Grinch that stole Christmas. It was this funny looking green guy that pulled his face so funny. Well she pulled the exact same face. Grandma use to call her Mrs Stinky, Grandpa it was Pumpkin face and Miss Piggy. My father it was Smiley and other name from me is Twinkle toes. And guess what at least she knows her real name as well. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 9:49pm
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I often call Alize "the Lamb" or "my lamb" as he used to make the sound of a lamb as a newborn. My mum and friends call him that too hehehe. Another one is "son" me and my girls often refer to him as the lamb or son. Unbelievable thou that he knows his actual name Mercedes gets "sades" from everyone!!! I call her that or Bubba. For some reason bubba has just stuck Lesieli has never had nickname, but at school her friends call her Leslie lol, sometimes I tease her and call her that ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: Xander&Harmony
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 10:06pm
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Xander has always been "dude"(thats a mum and dad joint one).Harmony ummm well daddy calls her "beautifull", i call her harms or "HARMONY ROSE, dont put ur hand in their while ur brothers doing wees" (that is the most recent one i call her).otherwise its harmony / lil girl / HARMONY ROSE. ------------- BECS http://www.sparklee.com"> 
Angel Baby 10/07/09 (10wks4days) |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 8:13am
| Tyrell was known as peanut till he was born. He is now called Bubba, Ty, TJ, but will only answer to Monkey! LOL |
Posted By: AlyAyde
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 8:33am
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cute names.... Alyssa is Lissy or Lissy loo. Jayde is JJ or Jaydee. They both get called baby ALOT. ie "how you doing baby?" ------------- Jayde 25/12/04 Alyssa 08/04/03 http://Alyayde.bebo.com |
Posted By: Jay_R
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 9:35am
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Joshua is Joshie, Monkey, Monkey Man, Gorgeous Boy, Fatty Bum-Bum, Monk-Monk, Monkeypants. He also gets called a combination of a few at the same time - like Joshie Joshie Joshie Joshie Monkey, Monkey Josh Josh, Monkey Monk-Monk!!! Poor kid
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Posted By: jax
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 9:52am
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Erin was often called Miss Muppet in the early days and sometimes still is, or there's Squidlet, Stinker, Ratbag, Cheeky Chops, Little Miss Bird, Birdy Pie and Cutie Bum... the list goes on ! ------------- Jacquie - Mama to Erin, 13.07.06 - Chief Cat Chaser & Marmite Sammie Eater 
Love many, trust few, harm none. ~Anon~ |
Posted By: baalamb
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 10:07am
Hahaha! That's SO funny! I came on to post just that! I call Ashlee 'sausage' as well and I thought it was a bit weird. I have NO idea where it came from. But it seems to be the name I call her when she's just woken up from her naps. Never any other time hehehe. Other times she gets Ash, Ashy, Ashy-pie, Ashy-poo, AJ. List does go on! |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 10:13am
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LOL Nikki - Red Rat - that sounds like it will stick!
And Toni, we get a lot of MAYA GRACE DAVIS!!!!! in our house! (her whole,full name is too long to be effective ).
The gremlins are gremlins (obviously), the chubs, or chub and bub. Maya is Bubba Womble or Bubba Wombat or just bubba. ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
 (02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Peace
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 10:42am
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Olivia: Livi, Poppet, Poppins, Poppin-fresh, Tuppence, my love, my darling, nanan's-girl, muppet, munchkin, bubb-ah, Princess-Olivia, Livi-bear. The bear one fits in with our whole family nick name. We say we are the bears, Dale-bear, Sara-bear, Sophie-bear (the dog) and anyone else that likes to call our place home is a bear too!
I call her Poppin-fresh or Livi the most. I have a lot of people call her Angel but she is not an Angel, Angels belong in heaven, she belongs right here with me!! ------------- DD1 May 2006 DD2 March 2011 DD3 August 2012 |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 10:49am
I have issues with that too - I keep calling Maya angel then thinking "grrrr, not appropriate Emma!" ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: thunderwolves
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 11:43am
| Ehtan is my puppy, or sqidwid (sp?), as he bears a striking resembalance to the cartoon character, a big bald forhead with wrinkles.. |
Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 12:27pm
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peace wrote:
I have a lot of people call her Angel but she is not an Angel, Angels belong in heaven, she belongs right here with me!! I have issues with that too - I keep calling Maya angel then thinking "grrrr, not appropriate Emma!" I actually call my child angel quite often. I lost our honeymoon baby just before Christmas and 2 years later my baby was born. So to me she is like a Christmas angel that came to heal my heart. And yip she is the angel right here on earth and my other ones are in heaven with my grandma. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 12:39pm
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Thats a nice way of looking at it! ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 12:42pm
Maya Grace Te Irirangi Marama Davis... no wonder she has become just Maya Grace!------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 4:19pm
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what is it with calling them 'sausage'? i do that too!!
jack used to get called poppit, jack-man, lil dude. charli gets madam whinge arse, darlin, chubba da bub ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com">
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Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 10 March 2007 at 1:09pm
| Jack is just Jackie or stinkbum if he has done a poo and toad when hes naughty. my parents call him bj (baby jack). Baby in my tummy just gets referred to as new baby. Jack was schnappi in my tum. |
Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 10 March 2007 at 5:34pm
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A bit slow on the uptake here, but going all the way back to the first page of this, Jasmine is such a pretty name caraMel! We would have had a Jasmine Grace if hubby hadn't had an ex with that in her name! Though the ex is a lovely girl, so I still considered it! And 'Peanut'... that is SO CUTE! Much cuter than "Princess Droolsalot", which Ella gets. ------------- Andie |