aka Thumper

For some reason, Thumper seems to accumulate nicknames like some women accumulate handbags or shoes... or is that handbags and shoes? Here's the list of things we have called her at various times over the past 7 months:

• Leaky
• Wet and Windy Winnie
• Button
• Girly-gums (that one is GrandPaul's)
• Bubba-lee
• Winnie-woo
• Winnie-poos
• Skinny-Winnie (GrandPaul again)
• Mini-Winnie
• Winnie-Pinnie-Poo (thank you BallFiend)
• Wee Winnie Winky (BallFiend again)

Strangely, BallFiend doesn't really have any nicknames other than the standard Aussie thing adding an '-ie' to the end of his actual name. Which of course we also do for Thumper, so these two cancel each other out.

Interestingly, the Thumper moniker that she earned in utereo -- due to the vigourous thumps I could feel from about 20 weeks onward -- still fits beautifully: she loves to lie on her back and simultaneously thump her feet on the floor and her hands on her belly. I can't believe she doesn't wind herself!

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