[HPFGU-OTChatter] Nicknames for kids

[Amanda Geist]

> Not really in utero, but still...

Me either. I always went by "Mandy" as a child, and when granola bars came
out, I suppose "Mandolabar" was inevitable, and my brothers shortened it,
and call me "Bar" to this day.

My daughter Catherine (which *does* get misspelled a lot) goes by the Polish
diminutive of Kasia, and for some totally unremembered reason, I have always
called her Kasia the Boo. Kasia Boo. Or just Boo. Probably from my brother
visiting when she was a baby; he calls babies "boobooheads." Hey, he calls
*me* Bar. I'm *related* to these people.

Of course, I named my son Tomasz. It's genetic.

~Amanda