Reason #176 – I call my son even more horrid names
Reason #176 – I call my son even more horrid names
Aug 09Calling my son a sonofabitch snot-face is clearly not bad enough.
Back when C was a crawler and I was still technically a single mom, I decided to be cute and try some Danish words on the Dane, so I sent him a photo of the tot with the unintelligible caption “Den lille orm vrider sig.”
The Dane was very impressed with my language skills, or at least with the fact that I could manage an online translator (He doesn’t overestimate me as a rule.)
C, however, won’t be too impressed when he finds out that my Babel-fishy Danish phrase translated roughly to “the little worm wriggles.”
It would not have been so bad to call my son a worm once, but the word somehow it wriggled its way into our family vocabulary, and we started calling him Orm and Worm on a more regular basis.
“Has the Worm had enough to drink?” “Yeah, he drank a lot of juice.”
“You must see this! The Orm just caught a ball!”
Then the variations started:
“Golly, Ormers is cranky today! Need a nap much?”
“Help me put shoes on the Ormit, please! I need to get dressed.”
Last time I checked, we had strayed so far into ridiculous we might be approaching the sublime:
“Ormington is ready for new jammies, these are way too tight.” “But I just bought them last month!”
If C grows up to have self-esteem issues, we will be able to trace it back all the way to my ill-advised attempt to learn Danish.
In other words: I blame Denmark!
Your son is super cute! I must admit that I am one of those people that try to see the cuteness in every child but the truth is: Not every kid is cute…sorry people! Just because they look like you doesn’t mean we all will adore them. No offense…I know we all think our kids are the cutest things ever, and they are! ;) Ok, I will shut up now! I just wanted to say how cute I think C is!!!!!
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ofthesea Reply:
September 27th, 2011 at 8:03 am
You are my new favourite person! ;)
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I tagged you on facebook, cause I’m not smart enough (or I’m too tired to worry) to figure out how to share…LOL It’s not the one I was talking about, but you can definitely see the turkey resemblence!!!
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ofthesea Reply:
August 12th, 2011 at 12:31 pm
That’s so weird, I cannot see it! Send link!
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Nothing wrong with calling him a orm. my son allways wriggled when he lay on his back so he was called “den lille orm” for a long time..
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ofthesea Reply:
August 10th, 2011 at 8:20 am
Hee hee, do you think it’s a more or less normal nickname for Danish babies? I feel a bit better!
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stine elise Reply:
August 11th, 2011 at 6:08 am
Maybe not normal, but not unusual.. You can just look at them when they starts moving, they do look like little worms… of course in a cute way :)
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lol I call my oldest one Stinky or some variation of it… but he really does stink when I have to change his man sized poop filled pull-up lol
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ofthesea Reply:
August 10th, 2011 at 8:20 am
Ooof, tell me about it! Sometimes I just want to Febreze his bum!
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I call my children Booger Butt all the time. Worm is charming in comparison. :-)
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ofthesea Reply:
August 9th, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Yep, you win this one. *plotting worse nickname for C*
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He he, worm and orm are cute, he would me my ‘wormy’ forever.
I call my tot ‘Knuddel’ (pronounced ‘knoodle’, it is a self-invented swiss word for someone to snuggle with), and when he’s naughty he’s ‘Rotz-Loeffel’ (spoon of snot). Hmm, my Hubs doesn’t understand it and I think that’s good. But I guess I have to change my ways, the tot’s getting more fluent by the minute.
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ofthesea Reply:
August 9th, 2011 at 12:05 pm
Rotz-loeffel! Baahahahaha! What will become of us when these kids actually speak back?
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My daughter was born right before Halloween, and when we picked her up out of the carseat her first Thanksgiving, she refused to drop her legs from the seated position, and so was dubbed Turkey-Butt. The poor girl will turn 3 this year, which means she’s had 3 Thanksgivings, and she’s been smaller than the turkey EVERY.YEAR! So maybe we should have gone with Cornish-Game-Hen-Butt?=) Yeah, we still call her either Turkey or Turkey-Butt….
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ofthesea Reply:
August 9th, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Aww, turkey-butt is cute! has she asked you why yet? Time to make up a crazy explanation to confuse her further!
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Jen Reply:
August 10th, 2011 at 3:12 pm
I have a picture of her somewhere from her 2nd Thanksgiving where someone is holding up a raw turkey and someone is holding her up next to it. The turkey is HUGE and she’s wearing jammies…LOL Eventually I will find that pic and frame it and hang it in the living room!
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ofthesea Reply:
August 10th, 2011 at 9:46 pm
Show! Show! I must see it!!!
That is not as bad as me calling my daughter “Chicken” She was born with blonde hair that stuck straight up on her head. Now that she is older, we still call her “Chicken” because of her ridiculously long, skinny legs. Variations inlcude “Chicken legs” and “Chicken noodle”.
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ofthesea Reply:
August 9th, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Sweetie, in this universe “worm” trumps “chicken” any day. You’re gonna have to try harder.
Loving chicken noodle! XD
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I think I have you beat. I currently call my 17.5 pound three month old anything ranging from “fat cheeks” to “porkchop”. I even find it horribly amusing and funny when my two year old calls her little sister “fatty”. I should probably be more mindful of it, but well, she is a little fat cheeks! ;)
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ofthesea Reply:
August 9th, 2011 at 12:08 pm
I give you points just because it is so un-PC here, but back home you call people “gord@” (fatty) as a term of endearment.
Maybe that explains why latinas have fewer body issues?
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