Alias

When the baby was just a mere fetus, I used to call him the bean because he looked like a pinto or lima bean in that first sonogram.  I continued to call him that through the 9 months because well we didn't really choose a name until the end.  And now that he's born, we've developed even more nicknames.  They say when you speak to a baby you should speak in 3rd person so that he learns his name and he knows who you are and who daddy is, etc.  So I've been trying to do that but at the same time strange nicknames have cropped up like "Mister Mister".  Not sure why we started calling him that and didn't even realize I used it so much until my mom started referring to our son as Mister, Mister in her emails.  Ha!   OOps, I guess that one might stick around.  I also refer to him as the Little Man..but more so when I'm speaking about him than to him.  Sometimes it's Nic Nic which makes sense...Sometimes I call him Bubby.  This probably stems from the Yiddish "Bubula" which was a term of endearment (which I think means: child) that my former coworkers used to use with each other (it was a family owned company).  My hubby sometimes calls him Prince.  When he's in a bad mood, we call him grumpy grumps.  My latest alias for him has been "Pudge, Pudge" as in Pudgy, although he's not that pudgy.  It's just a cute sounding word.   At his 9 month check up, he only fell  into the 5th percentile when it came to weight so we've been trying to get some meat on his bones by feeding him full fat yogurt, avocados, peanut butter, hummus, what have you.  I wonder what other concoctions of names we'll come up with and if there will be that one that everyone will call him.  I grew up hating my nickname especially when I was a teenager.  Some of my family members still continue to use it to this day but now that I'm older, I've come to terms with it and don't mind it at all.