Now that Amelia is two months old we are past the discussing important things like what to name her, will she be healthy, & how do we configure her room. We have moved onto less important topics such as what nickname will we use for her.
With Teagan we didn’t have many options. Our nieces Ailene and Alexis both came up with Teagie. It was nice to see that a 4 year old and a 24 year old came up with the same name to use. Of course the 24 year old is a teacher and said that Teagie is ligusisticly easy to say so that explains why the 4 year old came up with it. I am personally a fan of Teag’s but at present am the only one using that. There is also some use of T, but generally Teagan is a tough name to come up with a nickname.
For Amelia we have much more options to choose from. Since the time we started thinking about the name Amelia I knew if we picked that name I would use the nickname Ame (pronounced Amy). Others have liked and suggested Mia. A few other people offered up Milly however to their credit they didn’t like that option any more than we did. I heard a little girl on the playground call her sister Amia. MC suggested Mimi as another contender. MC says she thinks whatever Teagan decides to call Amelia is what nickname we will use so we are all on the same page with a name. My take is call me crazy but I am not leaving that decision up to an 18 month old.
I will stick with Ame, however I am happy for others to use different names as long as its not Milly or anything my brother in law Michael comes up with. OK, lets expand that to anyone in Michaels family. We love them and all but they have a bad track record with names and nicknames.