"the bean"

We call our baby "bean".

On our first ultrasound, long before he revealed himself as an alien, he looked like a bean. The name has stuck and I'm a little afraid that It's going to be difficult to transition to the baby's given name when the time comes.

Is it cruel and unusual to call your baby "bean" once he's born? My hubby's parent's nickname for him was a chinese phrase that means "small fat" (he, he!!). That's worse!

I think the kid's just lucky that we didn't see that alien ultrasound first...