Twink has been my son’s online persona since I joined the Baby Led Weaning forum when he was coming up to six months old. It was chosen because when he was just a bump, he was known as Twinkle. I felt Twinkle was a bit feminine for a boy, so shortened it. The thing is, he hasn’t been called Twink in real life for…oh…nearly two years I suppose! Squishy on the other hand, really is called Squishy (no…not literally…she has a real name too!), so I sort of feel it’s time to update Twink’s nickname so it reflects him better. The problem is, apart from things like sausage, darling, sweetheart, boy and many, many others, he doesn’t have a nickname any more. Does it matter? Should I make up a new one? I feel like he’s outgrown Twink, but I can’t think of anything else I could call him…any thoughts?! So far my favourite is The Boy…
Heh, we’re the same! Snarfy is still Snarfy on the forum but we haven’t called him it for ages, hence he became Boo on my (poor, neglected) blog as that’s what we sometimes call him – more often than not though we use his actual name. We also call Boo ‘The Boy’ sometimes, I like it.
How about “The Doctor…”
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The doctor might get confusing for new readers…you know, should I ever have any…;-)
Might change him to the boy…but it feels weird calling him anything but Twink online…but it also feels weird calling him something online that we haven’t actually called him for ages…
I could never get the hang of calling E anything other than Ellis online. Too confusing for my poor brain.
Georgia is called Baby Gaga in real life…ridiculous, I know.
I like Baby Gaga!! Squishy has so many nicknames it’s ridiculous…all very similar. The closest Twink has come to a real nickname is my friend’s daughter (also a late talker, so she was 3 at the time) calling him Epa, as that was the closest she came to saying his name. I’m a little sad that she can say it properly now she’s 4.