Parents spend a lot of time and energy deciding on names for our children, yet for whatever reason we tend to pick up nicknames as life goes by.
My mother named me Robert, but I have always answered to and become known as Bob, along with several less flattering nicknames.
I always knew when I was in trouble because instead of Bob I became Robbertt......
I believe that when Dolores was a child some of her sisters could not pronounce her name so she became Dolo.
My sister Marilyn has become Aunt Mar.
We also have Aunts Char, Bern and Re.
While growing up our children were given several nicknames, when Dolores went to yell at or to one of the girls it usually came out JaDan.
Frank was referred to as The Boy, as in what did The Boy do now or where is The Boy now, until his preference for pasta changed that to Franko.
Frank's wife Jen is known as Peanut to her friends.
Danielle became Danno.
As they went off to school friends pinned several other nicknames on them, most ended up being just Lupo, also known on email as Loopoh.
Dolores and I sometimes just refer to them as Numbers 1,2 or 3.
Several nieces & nephews also have nicknames, Donnie is usually just known as DP.
While even as she has become a young lady and grown in size we still have Little Charlotte aka Chuckie.
Mathew is Mattie, Kevin is Kev and there are several others.
Grandchildren have nicknames.
We have Mattie, Cailyn is Miss K or KK, sometimes Tasman will introduce himself as Thomas to strangers.
I know Jen and Curt spent a lot of time and energy in coming up with the lovely name Miranda ( do you understand your rights as they have been explained to you) Rose Reese,
and I have heard rumors of potential nicknames, Mira or Randy, but sometimes fate steps in.
Lets take a look at the child's birth date, no I'm not going to call her Groundhog.
As Danno points out on her blog Miranda was born on 2/2/2012.
As a csection birth the date and time was pretty well planned, not like her mother who decided to pop out a few weeks early, but was still kept waiting by the Doctor as several relatives sat at a baby shower waiting for the guest of honor, the Doctor was waiting for the Mets game to end before he delivered Jennifer.
Back to Miranda born on 2/2/2012 that's four deuce's or with deuce's wild five of a kind in poker.
Miranda may become a wild child somewhere down the line or a professional poker player, but for now I am going to start calling her Deuce.
Say hello to the Little Deuce when you meet her.
Attached is a picture of Grandma with Miss K and Little Deuce.
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