Fuss & Bug

February 24th, 2008

Someone asked me recently how I came up with the nicknames “fuss” and “bug”. Well, my son was born and I promptly had a massive haemorrhage that was undetected until I lost consciousness an hour later. So, I was not well for a very long time after. In the hospital, where I was for several days, my son was horribly crabby. He would go for long periods of crying and we couldn’t figure out why. In addition, my husband and I spent several of these days deciding what his name was to be. Well, my husband was deciding. I knew and there really wasn’t an option, but fuss is his son also, so I thought I should make it feel like he was deciding as well. During that time of supposed indecision, we called him Fussy-Mussy. We still call him some derivation of that to this day. Fuss, fussy, The Muss, etc…..I’m sure he’ll go off to university with one of them!

Bug, well, she just is! I actually don’t have as concrete a story. However, my children are themed (don’t ask why) and her’s is ladybug. Fuss’ is bee, by the way. So, we call her The Bug. As lovely as she is, she often lives up to her name, much to her brother’s dismay!

I particularly love how the nicknames came about totally organically. They were never planned, I didn’t even think they would have nicknames before they arrived. Fuss’ is so endemic that his friends and his friends parents call him that! It’s just sort of his name. Poor kid.

Enjoying the journey, Amanda

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