[blparent] Question of Interest

[Peggy]

Just funny how names work out.  Mine is Peggy and most of my life that's 
what people call me, not Peg or anything like that.  I've gotten a Margaret 
before, although my name is Peggy and not short for anything.  My oldest 
daughter is Tirsa and a lot of times it's shortened to Tirs.  My second boy 
is Dustin and I always thought Dusty would be okay, but I never call him 
that.  A couple people he knows do and he's okay with it, but to me he's not 
a Dusty he's Dustin.  My littlest one, Dylan James, would love to call him 
D.J.  but right now he's not a D.J. either, he's Dylan.  My daughter calls 
him Dylan Willin and I hate that but find myself calling him that as well 
ugh!



-----Original Message----- 
From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 3:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Question of Interest

Sarah won't put up with getting called anything except her name.  I can get
away with pet names like Chickadee or Tweety Bird or Goofball once in a
great while, but usually, if you call her anything besides her name, she
says, "No, I'm Sarah!"

I taught her to say her first and last name, Sarah Schumaker, in case
anything terrible happens and she gets lost or separated from me at some
point.  I want her to be able to tell somebody who she is.  But then I tried
to tell her one day that she has a middle name, Elizabeth, just like mine.
She wanted nothing to do with it.  She's Sarah or Sarah Schumaker, and
that's all there is to it.  I guess it's good that she's so confident.
*Smile.*

Jo Elizabeth

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From: "Melissa Ann Riccobono" <melissa at riccobono.us>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:13 AM
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Question of Interest

> Nicknames are so funny.  We thought we'd call Austin AJ (short for Austin
> James) but we rarely do.  I call him Buddy most of the time, and so does 
> my
> husband actually.  Austin really does not like anyone else call him 
> anything
> but Austin.  He tollerates us calling him Buddy, but the other day he 
> asked
> me to call him Austin, so I'm really trying to do that more often.
> With Oriana, I swore I'd never call her Ori.  I thought Ori sounded
> ugly, and if we'd shorten her name at all I preferred Ana.  Wouldn't you
> know it though, Austin started calling her "Ori Bori Guacaholi."  So we
> started calling her that too, and now we mostly call her Ori.  She's even
> said what sounds like Ori herself a couple of times, so Ori it will be.
> I'm glad both of our kids have grown up sounding names they can use
> when they get older.  I was Missy growing up, and am so glad I am now
> Melissa and had Melissa to switch to when I felt I outgrew Missy.
> Just some thoughts.
> Melissa
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Sheila Leigland
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 6:17 AM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Question of Interest
>
> When mark was a baby, he was the wee one, and then he became pootsa and 
> then
> just toots and epentually we had to remember to call him mark in front of
> his friends. I think my husband said pootsa is nerwegian for something but 
> i
> don't remember what.
>
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