Russelizer

Dear Little Baby Baum,

I'm desperately trying to come up with nicknames for you in the next few weeks. You're only a little over 5 weeks from seeing us and I'm gonna need a nickname right of the bat. I'm struggling though because the name Russell doesn't lend itself well to easy nicknames so, I'm having to be creative. Of course I could go with Rusty, but I'm not diggin' that name. Yeah, I said diggin'. It was cool to say when I was a kid and it's still cool.

Here are some of your potential nicknames:

1. Russellator
2. Russ-for-the-cure
3. Russ-ya-ma-callit
4. Big R
5. Russpot
6. Rustbelt
7. Russapottomas
8. Russ-Baum
9. He's not your J-Baum, He's not my J-Baum, he's RJ-Baum
10. Call of Ktulu
11. Russaprocity
12. RJ
13. Cardio Pulmonary Russ-uss-atation
14. Ruh-Roh (like the dog from the jetsons says)
15. Face

Anyway, that's the list so far. I'm sure when I see you I'll think of many many more. Plus your mom is pretty good at making up words...not so good about forgiving your dad when he makes little mistakes...but good at making up words. :)

I probably just got slapped.

I love you, little guy.

Love,

Dad