Boo boo what?

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We started calling Riley "Suctopus" when he was a newborn, primarily because of his tentacle-like waving appendages and the sucking-mouth thing all babies do (I loved it when he sucked in his sleep, making that little tok-tok-tok sound), and boy has it stuck. We still use that nickname every single day, as in "Jeeeeeesus, the Suctopus was a real pain in the butt all morning long."

Variations include Suctopod (I don't know), Fatopus (when he puffs out his belly), Badtopus (a Badtopus pushes the DVD buttons even though he's been told NO 34612 times), and Smartopus (Smartopuses are clever enough to know which of the forty jillion truck pictures is the skid steer, although they still reliably smash their head on the dining room table).

I even find myself using suctopus as a common noun for babies and toddlers. "Aw, look at that suctopus over there."

We also call him The Boy, Rye-back, and although I don't normally get too insipid with the baby talk, my own personal pet name for Riley is . . . okay, this is embarrassing . . . Boo Boo Bunny. Yes. Example:

Me: "Who's a Boo Boo Bunny?"
Riley: "Boo boo ba!"
Me: "That's RIGHT, you're my little Boo Boo Bunny! Who's a boo boo boo boo boo boo bunny? RILEY is!"

*collective horking sound from readers*

Anyway! What goofy nicknames did you give your kids? Surely I'm not the only one who has saddled my child with such ridiculous monikers. OR AM I?

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[robin]

Bubby, bub, the buster, bubbaster, bubbatopis.

[Melis]

Little G (his dad has a G name too), Buddy, Little Man, and my personal favorite, Buttabean.

(we called him Ernie and Muppet when he was orange from beta carotene-why yes, we are terrible people!)

[Wicked Stepmom]

10 y/o StepDaughter: Sweets, SweetieGirl

4 y/o Son: Boo, Peanut, Little Man, Lemur

1 y/o Daughter: Girly, Stinkerbell, Pedadie, Pixie! Pixie!

[Wicked Stepmom]

Oh! And I called my son "Squishy" when he was on his Finding Nemo kick.

[Kirsten]

I call her turkey. Or turkey pants. or turkey face. Or punky.

[Carmen]

Hmm, I figured that I would be the only one to add "pants" to a word and call the kidlet that. I call him Punky. Or Punky Pants. Or Crazy Pants.

[Kate]

Cranky Pants is currently in use, much more than I would like it to be, if you get my drift. My dad always called baby girls Petunia, and I find myself using this one frequently.

Peanut, Snickerdoodle, Kins (derived from "Babykins"), and at least five diminutives of her actual name.

And those are just the ones we use every day...

[BRash]

You know that Pakistani guy on Seinfeld, Babu Butt. Seinfeld gave him bad restaurant advice and then lost his visa stuff? Well my husband is Pakistani and our new baby? Is Babu. Babu-gee. Babu Butt. Babu-sab.
At least my grandparents, who have never done well with the foreign-names thing, can pronounce it. They love Seinfeld. (Seriously, my grandfather calls my husband, who he LOVES, alternatively See-Saw and Dijon.)

(not to his face)

(but I still told him about it)

(he was disappointed)

(poor sad Dijon)

[jenn]

My 2 3/4 yr old boy is Mr. O. (O stands for "outstanding". Which he was a lot more frequently when all he did was sit in his infant swing and look adorable. Now he has a mind of his own and wants to get into stuff and has pure nuclear meltdowns when thwarted.

[Trina]

We call Hannah:

Bean, Beano, Turkey, Crazy Turkey, Loco, Moo-Shu (as in the pork), I have shortened that to Moosh, and Punkin Chunkin. I think that is all. She is RARELY called Hannah. She is mostly referred to as "The Bean"

[Ashley]

Shaver, little shaver, shavy gravy, pootpoot, great grand grizzly, griz, great grand grizzly poo bah, boo, booalicious, bear....that is all I remember for Owen without getting the baby book out. For August? Fuss, fuss-a-lot,fussy fusserson and the fussdance kid, sir fuss-a-lot, fussy fusserson, and as of late hedgehog, can you tell he grunts and fusses a lot?

[up past bedtime]

My first-born will accept no name but HIS name, although we did call him "Baby Boy" way past his babyhood.

My second is named Adam, and we call him Adooma or Adoom, usually like this:
Ad-DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM-ma. Sometimes sing-songy, sometimes just to emphasize the DOOM, depending on his behavior. He can be quite the Toddler of DOOOOOM (and gloom!).

[Erica77777]

I call my son Bugaboo. Yes, like your stroller. Sometimes I call him Pooty-poo. My husband likes to call him "Mr-Poops-and-Farts-a-Lot"--even though he really doesn't fart all that much, honest.

[mrsgryphon]

Our girl is Jellybean (mostly just Bean or "The Bean", though... apparently not as original as we had thought! hee!). She's also Sweetpea, Fussbudget, Budge and just simply "Baby Girl"

[Matthew Miller]

Our daughter somehow ended up being a monkeybug. I had to draw a picture:

http://mattdm.org/art/monkeybug/monkeybug.png

[Jennifer]

My son is Peanut, Pooper, Buster Brown, Stinky butt... He's so going to therapy some day.

My unborn daughter is Petunia. Hopefully, we'll stick with nice smelling nicknames and keep her out of therapy.

[LizzyBee]

We call our son, "Moose". Mainly because he was born very small, so to have him get bigger and heavier, was sort of, a surprise. I know that sounds silly, but it works for us!
Also a recent new nickname is Sweet Pea, I think my Mom called me that, and it just rolled off my tongue the other day.

[Michelle]

Funny enough, we started with "peanut" when we saw the sonogram pictures...and named him Patrick, so now we call him P-nut. It stuck. :)

[carey]

-baby bean
-jellybean
-the bean
-little beaner
-turkey: i say "you are a turkey" and she will tell me "gobble gobble" (her father taught her that)
-turkey girl
-crab apple
-crabby craberkins
-sweet pea
-sweetie peetie
-baby girl
we also refer to her as being "wonderfully weird". is it bad to call you toddler "weird"??? in my defense, she can be REALLY weird, but you are probably familiar with that having a toddler yourself.

[Becky]

I call my 6 year old daughter Maurissa "Spiffy" "Rissaboo", "Rissaboobookitty" or "Punkinbutt". My husband calls her "Sugar".
I used to call my 8 year old son Jalen "Fuzzy" because of his hair, but now I usually just call him "J".

[Kristin]

Our daughter was "The Bug" or "The Buglet" for the longest time, but she's not so small any more so she has become Puddin Pop. At least to me.

Our son (Aiden) is alternately Aidey-boy and Aidey-potatie. Trust me, it sounds better than it looks.

[biodtl]

Besides The Boy and The Girl, my son was The Pea when he was a baby, then later he's sometimes Boyzo. My daughter is Bean, Beanie, or Beansie.

[Trena]

We have a variety of names for our little guy:
Buddy Bear, Little Bear, Little Bug, Poopie Doo, Squishy, Chunk McMunk, Nakey Bird (when the boy is as naked as the day he entered this world, usually right before or immediately following bath time), the Boy, Little Man.
Is it bad that the boy will whip his head around if we call out 'Buddy Bear' but not so much for his actual real name?

[Fifi]

Her infant name was Peanut. Now I sometimes call her Miss Goo. Wtf? I have no idea of where that came from or what it means.

[Erin]

Our son's name is Calum. We started calling him The Calumpillar when he was a newborn and swaddled in a green blanket 22.5 hours out of the day. Calumpillar got shortened to plain old "Pillar" or more commonly, "The Pillar." Which sound much more like a pro-wrestling name than a baby nickname. But there you have it.