I have been asked many times how my kids got their nicknames. And yes let's get the record straight I usually refer to them by their nicknames. :)
My oldest is CATFISH: When he was little he was Fat Cat, then when he started swimming *He really excelled at swimming* so we said it's funny how he was a cat in water...which we then said well, there are CATFISH in water...ever since then he has been CATFISH! I think that was 5th grade when it started.
My 2nd is BARGE: I know it's not an animal so how did he get BARGE, well my dad is Ronald Joe usually called Ronnie but my mom would call him RJ for short. When I named RJ my mom would call him Arrggg then she rhymed it with Barge..so he became Arrggg the Barge which gets shortened to Barge.
My 3rd is KEANKEAN *Pronounced CANECANE: You see he is Named McKean *pronounced McCANE* is named after my brother KEAN *CANE* and we just shorten it to Kean but when I holler for him I would say KEANKEAN twice so it has just stuck...the 2 oldest of the younger ones call him KEANKEAN all the time...I don't know if they realize his name is only once haha
My 4th is BEAR: I don't really like his first name *his dad named him* so when he was a baby I called him POOHBEAR. Then one day in kindergarten he came home and said "Mom, can you call me BEAR from now on, but I will always be your POOHBEAR" and so from that moment on he has been BEAR. My younger kids have never heard him called his first name.
My 5th is TURTLE: He got this nickname about 3 months old. He does this thing with his lips, He would puff his cheeks, suck in his bottom lip, and pucker his top lip out where his lip would kind of go into a point. It looked like a Turtle beak. He looked almost like the baby Turtle from Finding Nemo (Squirt) haha
My 6th is our only girl she gets called REAMAE: She got her name cause her name is Reagan Mae and it got shortened. She usually calls herself SISSY though. She will even introduce herself as SISSY MITCHELL. So I guess I have an Urban Cowboy girl on my hands haha.
My 7th is ROOSTER: Now he got his name almost immediately after birth. You see this kid has lungs that can break glass. He can seriously wake the dead it is soo loud and high pitched!! Funny thing is, his nickname fits him perfectly!! He has strawberry blonde hair, the loud squeal and he almost always wakes by 4:30am EVERYDAY!! ROOSTER is one of a kind.
Our last is LIZARD: This little guy just got his nickname Oct 20th...You see he was born Sept 4th so he is only 7wks old. But he earned his nickname. LIZARD since before he was born has been sticking out his tongue. I actually have ultra-sound pictures of him sticking out his tongue. When he sticks out his tongue you can see it is pointed.
So there you go ALL my kids and their nicknames :)