text: what are your kids' names? and nicknames or whatever you call them and why?  my children:  michael desmond jr.  - everyone calls him mike, his dad and i call him mikey. we call his dad mick or mike sr.  rodolfo -  we call him rudy, named after my dad  joseph - joe or pepe (nickname in spanish), named after his dad's father  carlos jr. - he was named after his dad  marissa - i call her mari sometimes. we just liked the name. linus -  named after st. linus maria - we call her mari too, named for my mother sebastian - sometimes we call him sebas, named for my wife's brother robert - named after my dad, we call him bobby