The Name Game
I'm very happy with the name we gave our baby. I think it gives her a lot of options. If she doesn't want to be a Wren, she has all of Elizabeth (liz, lizzy, eliza, liza, beth, betty, and za) to fall back on. And if she's really hard core I suppose she could insist on being called Lawrence. For now she seems happy with Wren, but she hears it so infrequently that I can't really be sure. I remember reading The Diaper Bag's entry on the names they called their son, and thinking, "why not just call him Elias? It's a good name!" But today I'm taking a page from her book, and I'm going to give you an (abridged)list of the names I regularly call poor little Wren every day.
Wren
Baby
Wrenbaby (probably most common}
Wrennel
Wrennelina
Rinnet (the lining of a cow's stomach- used in cheese making)
Wrenny
Wrenbird
the bird
Bunny
Bunny rabbit
the baby
Babybird
Fussface
Pumpkin
Pumpkin Face/Head
Poopy
Pizza Face (infant acne, poor thing)
Goose
Gosling(you've got to give me credit for that)
Mess
and of course, little miss Goo-eye
When my mom came to visit she expressed worry that Wren would never actually learn her name. She would enter kindergarten thinking her name was Pizza Face. I'm going to change my ways. She's stricly Wren from here on out.
I certainly use pumpkin a lot. I am not sure who decided that is a good thing to call babies. I guess babies are round and heavy (at least mine were/are).
El Wrenarina, if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
i forgot sweetie-pie and honey-bunch. but those are multi-use. lazlo gets them a fair amount of the time too.
My dad thinks it's fun to lend all children his first name as their middle name. I was 12 when I learned that my name is not Katy Jon.
Little miss goo eye has a certain charm...
hahaha. poor things going to have a id crisis later on and have a theophostic moment back to these days... j/k. sad i missed you guys. i ended up being drugged up or with my family most of the time. :/ alas- another day will come.