Lily and Anna rarely call Nora by her name. Instead, it's always nicknames, with lots of variety. For a week starting on Thanksgiving I counted how often they used different terms:
| 21 | Norkit (Anna favorite) |
| 20 | Nwetzel (Lily favorite) |
| 16 | Norky |
| 9 | Cuddleezel |
| 7 | Norka |
| 7 | Nori |
| 4 | Norit |
| 4 | Cuddleitz (former favorite) |
| 3 | Norweasel |
| 3 | Norklet |
| 2 | Norkla |
| 2 | Cuddlet |
Terms I only recorded once: Cuddleez, Cuddlehat, Cuddleoo, NW, Norahats, Noranoo (former favorite), Norba, Norcuddly, Norfi, Norfkit, Norflea, Norfo, Norfu, Norito, Norkakit, Norkaloo, Norkanoo, Norkita, Norkito, Norko, Norkwinza, Norkwitz, Norquo.
I counted each term once per "session", where if they said "Norkit Norkit Notkit" I would still only count that once, while if an hour later they said "market" again I would give it another tally. Doesn't include any sessions where I had my hands full or otherwise wasn't able to easily tally.
It took me a while to get around to posting this, during which both kids, but especially Lily, have started using "Kaia" a lot. Asking Lily, she says it is "short for Cuddler".
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