Anonymous
Post 07/09/2019 21:57     Subject: Cousins with the same nicknames?
Anonymous wrote:JFC. It’s nit a big deal. Many, many of my first cousins share common family names and are similar ages. We literally have three Johns all writhing a year of each other. Everyone can tell everyone apart, no one goes home with the wrong family. They will survive with similar nicknames. I can’t beluebe your SIL changesbthe name she wanted to choose for her own child. You can’t call dibs on a name and you certainly can’t on a freaking nickname. Grow up.


(Sorry, apparently I confounded autocorrect on my phone.)
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2019 21:55     Subject: Cousins with the same nicknames?
JFC. It’s nit a big deal. Many, many of my first cousins share common family names and are similar ages. We literally have three Johns all writhing a year of each other. Everyone can tell everyone apart, no one goes home with the wrong family. They will survive with similar nicknames. I can’t beluebe your SIL changesbthe name she wanted to choose for her own child. You can’t call dibs on a name and you certainly can’t on a freaking nickname. Grow up.
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2019 21:54     Subject: Cousins with the same nicknames?
Get over it op. Cousins don’t matter
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2019 21:51     Subject: Re:Cousins with the same nicknames?
Anonymous wrote:I should clarify these people do weird ass things. Crack. Stealing people's engagement rings in the family. Just shady ass stuff. I guess without perspective give you wouldn't see where I am coming from and that's ok.


And yet you previously said, "I like her a lot we get along great. I'm really excited for them."

So which is it?
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2019 21:29     Subject: Re:Cousins with the same nicknames?
I should clarify these people do weird ass things. Crack. Stealing people's engagement rings in the family. Just shady ass stuff. I guess without perspective give you wouldn't see where I am coming from and that's ok.
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2019 21:00     Subject: Re:Cousins with the same nicknames?
Maybe he will want to use his middle name?
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2019 20:59     Subject: Re:Cousins with the same nicknames?
Anonymous wrote:Oh OP. You sweet summer California child.


Actually I'm from good old Minnesota
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2019 20:58     Subject: Re:Cousins with the same nicknames?
Oh OP. You sweet summer California child.
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2019 20:56     Subject: Cousins with the same nicknames?
You are insufferable, OP.
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2019 20:54     Subject: Cousins with the same nicknames?
Jonah's a great name and doesn't need a nickname. You can still call him JoJo or Jo or whatever as an endearment when you're speaking directly to him, but he will probably just be known as Jonah.
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2019 20:50     Subject: Re:Cousins with the same nicknames?
Anonymous wrote:I don’t know any Jonahs that go by nicknames. It’s already a short name.

I have a feeling you don’t like your SIL and are looking for a reason to be ticked off. This is not a valid one.


+1 on both points.

Shout it into the wind, sister, no one else cares.
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2019 20:50     Subject: Re:Cousins with the same nicknames?
Anonymous wrote:I don’t know any Jonahs that go by nicknames. It’s already a short name.

I have a feeling you don’t like your SIL and are looking for a reason to be ticked off. This is not a valid one.


I like her a lot we get along great. I'm really excited for them. I am not mentioning this to them. I get that everyone thinks I'm crazy so you can stop commenting now lol
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2019 20:49     Subject: Cousins with the same nicknames?
This bigger a family is, the less odd they will find it. Especially families that name people after people.
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2019 20:49     Subject: Re:Cousins with the same nicknames?
I don’t know any Jonahs that go by nicknames. It’s already a short name.

I have a feeling you don’t like your SIL and are looking for a reason to be ticked off. This is not a valid one.
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2019 20:45     Subject: Re:Cousins with the same nicknames?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:And I don't make a fuss about much usually. I refused baby showers for both children, and am super laid back. Sorry if "stealing the thunder" put off the wrong message. I just want my son to feel like an individual, these are two boys born the same year, and they will be going to the same schools unless one of us moves.


If you wanted his name to be unique, you should have chosen something less trendy than Jonah.


Jonah isn't common and BIL even said he got the idea fom us first.


LOL, there were three Jonahs in my dd’s kindergarten grade last year, out of a total of 87 kids.


I am in California. It is not common here.