Choosing an official name for a baby is no simple task. What do you take into consideration: Tradition? Trends? Culture? Pronounceable in how many languages? Or worse yet, does the name we've chosen mean “The Ass of a Donkey” in a language he or she may use in the future? Well, for what it’s worth, we made our choice. Theo will have to live with it and manage the best he can.
The poor guy, however, does not get the chance to manage all of the nicknames he’s acquired in just 2 ½ months. I routinely call him “Tiger” and depending on his mood, “crab cake”. If he’s super cute, some days he even gets called “babycakes”. Anders has used every single pet name he can think of in Norwegian. Theo often becomes “Lille vennen” (Little friend), “Gullungen” (Golden Child) or “Gullklompen” (Golden Lump). The latter often gets shortened to just “klomp” and then translated into English.
Long story short, we like Lump and Lump likes us.
2 comments:
I like Theo, and I like Lump even more! :-)
Oh my god, you have a baby now! Congratulations! I feel really out of touch. Good thing I found Holly on Facebook. Email me sometime! fi_mishmish@hotmail.com
Melissa (aka Mishmish)
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