When Pig first joined his daycare group, we were told another family gave him the nickname Monchichi - the resemblance is striking, I must admit. I don't know if these little monkey creatures ever made it to the US, but apparently they were a popular Japanese export to Europe in the 70s. We resurrected the moniker this time around on the assumption that Number 2 will have just as big of a head and just as much hair as Number 1 - pretty much a safe bet. We also knew we wanted a "cuter" nickname for our baby girl - Pig lives up to his name manfully, but given this is Year of the Rat there's potentially nowhere to go but down...
So Monchichi has been our working title for the past six months and now that she's here we think it's a great fit. Hsin presciently told us way back that Monchichi is a clunky nickname, and indeed we find ourselves already shortening it to Monch, Monchi, Chichi, etc. Her vote was for Puggle - which is either a designer mutt or a baby platypus or a toy character.
Pig, who is now very sensitive to gender, sees the logic of Mommy/Monchichi and Papi/ Piggy, so who are we to argue?
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Oh, my goodness, my head is about to explode with all this picture-y goodness! Larissa doesn't seem to have such a big head, but she certainly has the hair for a Monchichi. It did make it to the US, BTW. I mentioned it to someone and they brought up the theme song to the Monchichi cartoon or something.
You're right. I just looked it up - Pig's head circumference was 37cm and Monchichi's 35cm at birth...she's just above 50th percentile for girls and he was about 85th for boys.
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