Me Llamo es Pickle?
Many times in the last few months someone has asked me, “her
name isn’t really Pickle, is it?”. I don’t blame them, we rarely refer to her
by her given name.
Back when we were on the adoption roller coaster, we had
several false alarm calls that would’ve placed us with little boys. We had a
couple really interesting, tough names that we liked…but none were
really girl names. Plus, we found it difficult to find something that didn't sound silly with our last name…I still think Tootsie would’ve been hilarious. Then we
received that life changing call on April Fool’s day…we were about to be placed
with a girl. We panicked – what the heck girl name did we have again?! I still
remember where I was sitting when I called my brother to tell him that he was
about the have a niece with his name. He said “why would you do that to a
little girl?” See…we (okay, me - as the big sister) had really fun nicknames
for him as a kid…Bryce-A-Roni: The Central Park Creep, Bryce-A-Ferd: The
Massive Turd, Bryce-The-Destroyer*, and Brycie-Poo. All of which he still
cringes at…but really, what a cute name for a girl. Plus, haven’t you seen
Bryce Dallas Howard in The Village or The Help? Love her.
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| Javelina, Little Bryce, & Big Bryce |
It was set, we had this really cool acronym for when we met our little girl: BAMR – the nurse
even wrote it on the whiteboard in our room – super official and whatnot. The
kid is almost 2-1/2 and we’ve NEVER called her BAMR – she gets a “BRYCE ANN”
when she’s in trouble. My parents are not on board with her name and only refer
to her as Squeak. What, are they mad that I borrowed their name? These are the
same parents that named me after a Star Trek episode (don’t deny it, Mom…”the
Google” says so)**.
At any rate, the kid likes her name and if you ask her what
her name is, she’ll tell you Bryce. When she looks at Uncle Bryce’s photo, she
knows that he’s Bryce too. Someday she’ll really appreciate that she has her
name and that she was named after her cool Uncle Bry. He’s pretty awesome – to this
day, he would give you the shirt off his back if you needed it. I wouldn’t
suggest asking though, I think he might be a werewolf…
xo
*The kid could BREAK anything…bones, furniture, you name it –
and sometimes put it back together.
**I’m going to be in deep dog doo after that one!
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