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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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TroysMammy · 05/04/2017 20:13

My dolls were called Susie and Topsy. Our Christmas tree fairy was called Monica.

PollyHampton · 05/04/2017 20:15

Amazed there are still people not getting it....neveradullmoment99

My doll was called Patricia, I loved that name.

Storminateapot · 05/04/2017 20:21

My daughter named the baby doll she was given when her brothers were born by the full name of the little boy who was her best friend at nursery. She was 2 and the doll was, and still is now she's nearly an adult, called Harry Dxxxx (won't say the surname, it's very distinctive).

DrDreReturns · 05/04/2017 20:27

How very dare you! My name's Dave Grin

Mu123 · 05/04/2017 20:29

Ach daves alright, its harmless?

Dd1's was bucket and jemima ffs dd2 insisted our very real dt's were called robbie... yes both the boy and girl!

KathyBeale · 05/04/2017 20:29

My fave doll was called Tina. I feel she would be a good wife for Dave.

Remember Ramona Quimby named her doll Chevrolet after the family car?

liquidrevolution · 05/04/2017 20:32

I would love a Dave.

DDs dolls are Boy and Dolly. One is a boy and one is a girl.

She is soooo imaginative. Hmm

NeverTwerkNaked · 05/04/2017 20:33

I called my doll Onion

Disconcertingly my doll looked a lot like my DD does now!

NeverTwerkNaked · 05/04/2017 20:35

Worse still, I called her onion after I had hacked off her hair so she was just left with these tufts sticking out at the top of her head

I won't be cutting my daughters hair Grin

innagazing · 05/04/2017 20:43

My daughte's first doll was called Juanita after the one in the 'Big Brother' TV programme.
she had another named Grace, after an old lady who stopped to talk to my daughter on the street with her new doll and pram sh'd got that day for her birthday.
Happy memories! She's nearly 18 now

floraeasy · 05/04/2017 20:43

what do you mean it does not look like a Dave? what does a Dave look like?Grin

diddl · 05/04/2017 20:44

Cathy, Tammy & Michelle!

Favourite though was my mum's doll-Pamela.

SinisterBumFacedCat · 05/04/2017 20:48

Alright Dave?

To not want dd to call her baby Dave?
sassysare · 05/04/2017 20:54

My dd used to call her teddies Barry and Jeff (had to be with a J too) Dave would have gone down well here 👍

5moreminutes · 05/04/2017 21:09

I never heard dolls referred to as babies until my mother started referring to my neice dolls as babies - this has never utterly baffled as it can't be explained by generation or region, unless she's been influenced by something that didn't influence her when I was a child. I only had one doll, and it was called Maggie, though I don't know whether it was me who named it. I had a teddy called Amber because of the colour of its eyes which i do remember naming because I thought I was being clever (I'd never heard Amber used as a name).

Is referring to dolls as babies (as an adult) regional then?

Original poster
ViolentDelights · 05/04/2017 21:16

I call Dave dd's baby because dd calls it her baby. My dolls were also my babies as well as having names when I was a child. It's just part of the role play isn't it?

If I saw a baby doll in a shop though, or if I was talking about them in general then I'd just call them dolls.

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Wigeon · 05/04/2017 21:19

Dave is an excellent name for a dolly. My DDs' dollies and teddies and other cuddlies have all sorts of ridiculous names (Fishy La La, Funcat, Bopsy, Snug Twig, Ruggles...) which makes Dave look really very normal.

SantasLittleMonkeyButler · 05/04/2017 21:19

I had twin dolls, girls called Clockfreed & Tittifa (pronounced Titty-far).

I was 4 😄.

SalemSaberhagen · 05/04/2017 21:20

My 2 year old has twins named Barry and Bazza. Bazza used to be Carrie until my DD got pissed off with me calling Barry Bazza and named the other twin that instead.

5moreminutes · 05/04/2017 21:28

That makes sense Violent

HarryPottersMagicWand · 05/04/2017 21:32

DD has recently named a new stuffed toy Moses. Hmm That's what I get for sending to her to our local religious school.

She has the baby Annabel and brother who were Ben and Holly. Ben has decided he is transgender and is now in a pink dress. My cousin jokingly called him Roger which has now stuck as DD thinks it's funny. I quite like baby Roger in his pink dress.

My doll was called Nancy, as I was desperate to be called that myself when I was little. My teddies had really original names like Green Frog, Dragon, Long Legs (and teddy with long legs), Animal Man (a knitted scarecrow with animals on him) etc etc. I was highly original. Grin

Trumpton · 05/04/2017 21:44

My teddy was Tedissa = Teddy ( for short )
My baby was Dorothy = Dolly ( for short )( I bit her fingers off)

I now have a DGD called Dorothy but Dottie for short .
PS I don't bite DGD however much I am tempted ( she is 4 - enuff said !)

piglet81 · 05/04/2017 22:15

I love this thread! I must have been a terribly unimaginative child - I had a Paddington Bear called Paddy, and a Red Riding Hood doll called...Red Riding Hood. Also a (real) goldfish called Goldie.

My mum gave all her dolls double-barrelled names like Barbara-Jane to make up for only having a one-syllable name herself.

MixedUpConfusion · 05/04/2017 22:15

Not a doll, but when DS was younger everything was called Frank. He even insisted the dog up the road was called Frank it wasn't

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 05/04/2017 22:24

DD doesn't have babies, only dinosaurs, but she does refer to Peppa as "damn pig" Grin