But I didn't -- Peanut picked up her name in the operating room when she was born 4 weeks early and at 3 1/2 lbs. One OR nurse gasped, "Oh my God!" Another one cooed, "aren't you a little Peanut!" And that was it.
Peachie picked up her nickname when Peanut (age 4) came to the hospital the day after I had her sister. Peachie was born with a head covered in red fuzz (Daddy is a red head). Peanut said, "You look like a little peach. I will call you my Peachie." And THAT was it.
I picked up my nickname on the playground at age 6 -- when my first-grade boyfriend John Levy got mad at me for calling him "Leaf Lotion Levy." He called me "Perky Percolator" and that was it for ME -- 42 years later I am still better known as Perky.
So we are Perky, Peanut, Peachie, and Steve -- Ha ha ha





