Weego Boomey!

What's more fun...creating a nickname for someone, or then calling that person by their nickname??  To me, nicknames are terms of endearment to our most loved friends and family members.  I love being able to call someone by their nickname and having bystanders wonder what the heck I just called that person and why. 

Growing up, my nickname was Emo (pronounced "M-O").  My mom did daycare when I was young and one of the little girls there couldn't say my name correctly and called me Emo....it became my identity until I went to college.  My dad, brother and some friends only called me by my nickname.  In fact, those same people still call me Emo.  I even had some high school teachers call me that.  I was looking through one of my high school yearbooks recently and noticed that almost every person who wrote in it referred to me as Emo.  Once I went to college though, no one knew me by that name and I heard it less often.  I do have one college friend who somehow started calling me Emo though, so that was fun (shout out to you Amanda!).

Sometime in Rylee's first year of life, she got the nickname "Weego".  Odd isn't it??  James got it from a beer commercial and called her that a few times.  We had some friends over shortly after that (shout out to you again Amanda), and when James called Rylee "Weego", our friends new exactly where he had gotten that.  I never did see the commercial (until just a few minutes ago when I decided to try Googling it), but started calling her that too.  She is almost 3 years old and still occasionally answers to "Weego" or "Weegs".   Here is the commercial if you are curious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD-tmlGtDLE

Wyatt got his nickname, "Boomey" recently.  Once he started to make real sounds with actual letters, all of his whines sound like he is saying "boom boom boom".  So one night James called me from a work trip and asked what I was doing.  "Oh, just put Boom Boom to bed", I told him.  "Boom Boom?", he asked.  "Yeah, you know...'boom boom boom'", I replied in my best whiney Wyatt impression.  So began him being called "Boom Boom", which has turned into "Boomey".  I will tell Rylee to say goodnight to her brother and she says, "Good night Boomey"....so stinkin cute!!

While thinking of a title for this post I realized that when I put the kids' nicknames together it sounds like a sentence...."We go Boomey" (not that Boomey is a word).  People would put my nickname and middle names together and it also sounded like a sentence..."I'm okay" (Emo Kaye).  Weird. 

Anyway ...do you or your kids have strange nicknames...and how were they created??