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To not want dd to call her baby Dave?

179 replies

ViolentDelights · 05/04/2017 17:39

I'm quite happy for it to stay simply as "baby" but her brother keeps telling her to call it Dave. Or Farty-pants. But Dave seems to be sticking. It doesn't even look like a Dave. I spent ages online picking one that wasn't terrible looking and now it's going to be known as Dave!

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ThreeLeggedHaggis · 05/04/2017 18:54

Mine were Araminta and Thomasina

I had a Thomasina too! Because my brother is Tom and I wanted to take the piss out of him...

TheNaze73 · 05/04/2017 18:55

Tastesjustlikecherrycola85

Pob Grin

Lolly49 · 05/04/2017 18:56

When Dd was two she named our jet black cat, Ginger a sense of humour at an early age maybe.She also nick named her brother Poo she still calls him that and he is 18.

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ViolentDelights · 05/04/2017 18:57

Well I'm equally concerned that you think referring to a baby doll as a baby is concerning.

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TheRollingCrone · 05/04/2017 18:57

My dds were Eartha and Trisha Kelly

Mine was Albertina (she was a rag doll and not at all stuck up)

EdmundCleverClogs · 05/04/2017 18:58

I had a doll that I couldn't decide was male or female. So called it Jame (between Jane and James). Maybe I should suggest that one on the Baby Names forum Grin.

My toddler has toys called Geoffrey, Edmund and Elsbeth. All to wind up MIL who thinks children should have 'proper' names (unlike our child).

2017SoFarSoGood · 05/04/2017 18:59

Sharon & Billy were my DC's special friends.

Dave could fit right in! Mind you, he would surely start out as 'Wee Davey' but that's to be expected.

TeslasDeathRay · 05/04/2017 18:59

I never really had dolls. My aunt bought me this crocheted mouse-thing that I carted everywhere. (It was very odd. It had really long limbs. Confused) He was called Mousey Brown. Took me well into my teens to realise his name was a pun. Blush Still have him somewhere.

HappyFlappy · 05/04/2017 19:01

called it Jame (between Jane and James). Maybe I should suggest that one on the Baby Names forum

Wasn't Jame a loony murderer in one of the "Hannibal Lector" books (Jame Gumb, I think)? Was making himself a bodysuit out of human skin so he could be a woman.

Nowadays he'd just declare himself female, of course.

EdmundCleverClogs · 05/04/2017 19:07

I have no idea, Happy, was a bit young to be influenced by those books. Though if he did live in the times of 'just declaring himself female', guess it would have spared a few grisly murders Smile.

Teatowelfairy · 05/04/2017 19:16

2 yr old DD's are called Polly dolly and baby pumpkin. We get strange looks when we take baby pumpkin out because it sounds pretty much like DD is calling baby dirty bugger. Grin
Mine was daisy and Abby.

Oliversmumsarmy · 05/04/2017 19:23

DD called her dolls Slapper and Jordan.

Go figure

Kenworthington · 05/04/2017 19:25

When dd was teeny her dolls were called:
Ring
Pond
Ice cream.

Utterly random.

SharonBottsPoundOfGrapes · 05/04/2017 19:25

Unrelated but dd's new gerbils are called Darren and Andrew.

LePimpernelScarlette · 05/04/2017 19:29

My mum gave my DS a baby doll before my DD was born. When we discussed names my dad piped up call him Roderick, my DS loved the name, baby Roderick was born. He gave up on the doll quite swiftly but then my DD took him over and still the name Roderick stuck!

PartiallyStars · 05/04/2017 19:32

DS's baby doll was called Chilli con Carne (outs self to friends).

My sister's was called Randy. Short for Miranda don'tcha know.

AuldHeathen · 05/04/2017 19:35

When son David was little he named a toy owl Davie. It was really important that you knew the difference and used the correct version. Grin Both versions are good, I think. Davie is still part of the household, as is the human one thankfully.

lazyarse123 · 05/04/2017 19:45

Slightly off topic but we had a fish tank and DS1 12 had a shark called, oddly enough Jaws, but unfortunately it died so we bought him another one. When asked what he wanted to call it he said "Jaws 2 the sequel". Said son is actually called David.

buttercup54321 · 05/04/2017 19:46

I had a doll called Nigel!!

neveradullmoment99 · 05/04/2017 19:49

Honestly? Its a doll.Get over it.

AuldHeathen · 05/04/2017 19:51

I had a Janet and a Susan. Very common 1960s and '70s names. One of those names is my middle nam and I don't even like it.

badabing36 · 05/04/2017 19:53

I don't remember having a doll, but my bear was called mr bear, what an imagination I had.

Dp referred to my bump Eustace. Luckily it didn't stick.

Tiggerific1984 · 05/04/2017 19:56

I had a doll called Nigel!!

^^ my unborn child was called Nigel for 9 months and then out popped a girl Grin

sucue · 05/04/2017 20:06

My doll was called Bedroulbadour, after the princess in Alladin.

My brothers called her Droopy Drawers.

Beeziekn33ze · 05/04/2017 20:07

DM didn't like me calling a doll Queenie. Wished I'd known at 6 that it was a nickname, in Victorian times, for girls named Victoria.
DD has no idea why, at 3, she called a rag doll Doughy. DGD, 2, loves all her assorted 'babies' but they don't have names apart from 'Baby', and always seem to have lost their clothes!