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Yes! I forget when we're in public sometimes and call out "Daddy" to Mr. Marbles instead of his name! It definitely sounds and looks weird outside of the home, but it's natural for us within the context of our family. Mr. Marbles calls me "Mama." I think it's OK as long as I don't start referring to Mr. Marbles as "Daddy" in conversations with other people.

Ha we don't even have kids yet and my husband calls me mommy in front of our dog, so I'm pretty sure he'll do it with our kids. I call him daddy in front of the dog too. Is that weird? lol

I didn't know my mom had a first name until I was five or six. I thought her name was Mommy. "Mommy, why did Grandma call you Becky?" "Because that's my name!" "But your name is Mommy!" "Well, I'm only Mommy for you and your brother. For everyone else, I have a different name." I knew my daddy was also Paul, though (which worked well anyway since "Pa" is an acceptable Daddy term.)

Like most everyone, I call him Daddy most of the time when Wombat's around and his name or one of his many nicknames when she's not. He is still getting used to calling me Mommie around her.

@katiekc: I'm the exact same as you! Although I feel a little weird myself saying "Daddy" about our dog...

@cyneswith: Hahaha...I was the same way! Had no clue my Mom had a name. I think we'll follow in my parents footsteps and just call each other Mom and Dad or Mommy and Daddy.

That's all we ever use in front of our lo. I'm pretty sure she won't know we have real names.

We never used our names before anyway. It's weird when he says my name.

Yup. Hubs refers me as "maman" and I call him "daddy" but now that You put it that way yes it seems odd

We hardly call each other by our real names... That would be super weird for us! It's always been various nicknames... the most common one over the years has been "Honey"... Our 3yo will sometimes call my DH "Honey"... The way she says it isnt weird, just funny coming from her. And she doesn't do it regularly enough, so we don't correct it or anything... It's just funny

He'll sometimes call me momma, it felt really weird at first but I've been calling myself momma to her more so it's started to feel less weird. Though just the two of us he usually calls me by my name unless I'm not paying attention.

Yup! We do and even when its just DH and I around with our furkids. Haha! When we have his daughter up I def do a lot more so she can hear it and not be afraid to use it. (DH's DD is afraid to call him Daddy because it "hursts mommy's feelings and makes mommy cry", her mom is re-married and that is her "daddy" slowly getting better with this as she has gotten older. )

It doesn't come naturally to us -- feels especially weird to me to call husband "Daddy." But we used to call each other by name, and around 18 months the baby started regularly calling us "Tara" and "Ed." It was *hilarious* coming from the mouth of a toddler, but we figured we should probably nip it in the bud.