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QOTD
What do you call your grandparents? If you have kids, what do they call their grandparents?
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Re: QOTD
I have a Grandma/Popie combo and a (both deceased) Nanny/Grandpa combo.
JJ's parents will be Grandma and Grandpa.
My parents are Oma/Pops for my nephew, so that's what they'll be for our kids.
Both sets of grandparents are just grandma and grandpa. DH's grandparents are Granny & Pop.
My mom has requested to be called Mimi because she is too young to be called grandma. My dad has no preference but my mom keeps joking that he should be called MoMo to match her name.
I think DH's mom wants to be called Nana.
My dad's parents are Nanny and Grampa. V calls them by these names.
My mom's mom is Grammy and her dad was Grampy. V calls Grammy Gigi.
V calls my parents Bebe and Papa. Bebe was the nickname that my mom's dad used for her and we thought it would be very special to use that name for her.
V calls DH's dad Poppy. She calls DH's grandmother GG
How is it that my BABY is going to be 3?
BFP-2/25/11; 8 Wk U/S-3/25/11-No HB, measured 6.5 wks; D&C
Same here. Although sometimes we'd say Grandma Lottie or Grandma Maxine. Grandpas were more confusing because they were both Grandpa Joe. Honestly, I never knew what to call them and still don't. I'd like for my kids to have easy, distinct names for all 4 of their grandparents.
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My dad's parents I called grandma and grandpa. My mom's mom passed away before I was born and my grandfather we called him Pops. Everyone who knew him called him that.
I called all mine grandma or grandpa. I sometimes also called my mom's mom Grammy. I call my mom's dad Grandpa Airplane. When I was 2, we went on a plane to visit him, and it stuck. My step mom's parents I called Grandma/pa last name.
My mom goes by Grammy now and step dad is grandpa (by my neices)....I'm sure if my kid calls them something else, they'll go with it. DH's side, his dad goes by Papa and step mom goes by Granny. His mom is the only one who has said what she wants to be called....and that's nana. (they already go by these names w/ my nephew.) For my dad, this will be his first grandchild, I'm not sure what he'll prefer. My step mom has a grandson (her son's wife's child), and she goes by Busha. (polish grandmother)....although, I think traditionally Busha is mother's mother....and in that case it's used incorrectly. Ah well.
Dad's parents are Grandma and Grandpa. Mom's parents are Nana and Papaw.
ETA: This post really made me miss my Papaw (he's my favorite, I don't care if that's flameful)
My dad's parents were Grandma/Grandpa Last Name.
My mom's mom died before we were born, and her mom was Grandma Joan to me.
My cousin's MIL used to dye her hair FIRE ENGINE RED.. Her grandkids call her Grandma Red (even though she is brunette these days). That always cracks me up.
Same
DH's parents are Memo and Gampa to the Grandkids on that side, so that's what they'll be for ours.
Mine have picked Nana and Pop-pop (I'm not a fan of pop-pop, sounds a but dr. suess-y to me, but he's the one who has to answer to it, so whatevs)
My dad's parents were called Grandma Grace and Grandpa. I didn't spend much time with them before they passed.
My mom's parents were G-ma and "Hi Daddy". I called him "Hi Daddy" because whenever my mom would come to the house she would walk in and say "Hi Daddy" and I thought that was his name. My sister and I called my grandma "G-ma" because in middle school we thought we were being cool. It stuck and her great grandsons called her G-ma.
I miss her.
My mom's parents - abuelo and abuela.
My dad's parents both passed away before I was born but we always referred to them as abuela maria and abuelo pablo to differentiate I guess.
James is starting to call my parents 'abu'. I'm really not sure what DH's parents want to be called or what DH may want James to call them, but fil seems to refer to himself as 'pop-pop' sometimes which is weird to me.
I don't know yet if I'll have something specific that I'll want my grandchildren to call me.
I always called mine Grandma/Grandpa LastName, and I would have preferred that for my kids. However...
Since we already have nieces, DH's parents have dubbed themselves Nana (his mom), GG (his grandmother), Papa (his dad), and Oma (his stepmother).
And since HIS parents have special names, MY parents want special names. Crazy has suggested Gdaddy and Gmommy, but there is no way in hell that's going to fly. I'm going to suggest Nene because of that crazy woman on RHWoA.
HAHAHAH. I so hope she goes with that.
They're all granny and papa to me.
B calls our moms grandma and calls my dad papa.