Nicknames

We don’t actually call the girls Monkey and Turtle. When they were newborns Monkey had long arms and legs and dark “fur” on her back, and she clung to us like a baby monkey, so we called her Monkey sometimes. When Turtle first started to gain weight she had a gigantic head with puffy cheeks, and a spindly little neck, like a cartoon turtle. So I bought a monkey hand puppet and a turtle hand puppet for Christmas last year to commemorate their state of being at the time. But we don’t collect monkeys or turtles or anything like that. I just like to use the names for this blog because it creates some distance so my posts can read more like little stories.

We do have dozens of nicknames for the girls that we use on a regular basis, though. Some I use more than N and vice versa but I thought it would be fun to list as many as I can think of. So without further ado, here are all the things we actually do call our little girls every day:

Baby girl, cutie pie, cutie muffin, silly muffin, cuddle muffin, muffin, sweetie pie, honey bun, bun, honey bear, honey, Jay, Miss J, jaybird, JZ, JB, Big J, stinky pants, little monkey, little munchkin, ‘lil lil’, little flower, beautiful girl, droolsie, joolsie, cheesy, pookaburra, special sauce, lilipin, smarty Jones, Missy Moo, superstar.

Rest assured that despite this plethora of silly nicknames, they do know and respond to their real names.