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Grandparent names
Yes, I know it's early for this question, but my MIL has already started talking about what she wants to be called. So far, the name she is referring to herself as when we talk about the baby, is pretty horrible (I think anyways) and I don't want to have to refer to her as that since I hate saying it. LOL
Just curious, who decided what your child's grandparents were called? You or the grandparents?
Re: Grandparent names
here's the thing. It's really not up to grandparents- your kiddo will name them.
My parents are Grammy and Grampy, because my grandparents on my Mom's side were Grammy and Grampy...
MIL went back and forth on what she wanted to be... and decided on Nana, FIL is Pepere because that is what Josh's grandfather was and FIL always wanted to be Pepere...
My Gram is 3G (Great Grammy Grace) or GG...
however, the boys have started to call my Dad Bampa and call FIL Pepe so we will see what happens when they start talking!
The parents picked their names. Dad is Grandpa. FIL is Opa (since he's got German decent). MIL is Mum-C or pronounced Mumsie (since their last name starts with C.) Mom was going to be Honey B because she thought it was cute and their last name starts with B and she wanted to sound young, but then she went with Grammy.
James has been going with it, so that works for us.
For the most part, yes! My mom used to call her dad "dad" obviously, and I tried to copy her and "Da" stuck (I know Mollie calls her father this!)... but my other grandparents were already named since we were the younger generation so we called them what everyone else did.
My MIL (who has seen the baby 2x total) said that she was 'calling' nana. Whatever, that's fine. I asked everyone else.
All are generic, except my dad is 'The BOG' (Bald Old Grandpa). We've always called him (The BOM), but a family member said "Now you're not the BOM anymore, you're a grandpa. BOG. Bald Old Grandpa". And if fits.
yes, but before he even begins to talk I'm sure we'll be pointing at photos and saying "there is grandma" or whatever. I called my grandparents what my parents referred to them to.
That's what happened with us. We were planning on them all being Grammy (last initial) and Grampy or Grampa (last initial.) So that's we called them when Eli was born. When he started talking he ended up calling my parents Mimi and Papa at first and it just stuck. Tim's parents are Grammy and Grampy.
We let the parents pick. When my niece was born, my mom was feeling too young to be any traditional grandma name, so we searched around and finally came up with Amma, which we thought we made up, but it turns out to be Norse. So my folks are Amma and Pop, N's dad is Grumps (he may have been kidding when he said that's what he wanted, but it stuck), and N's mom is Inny (a childhood nickname). Funny, only N's step-parents have traditional grandparent names, Grandma for SMIL and G.B. for SFIL, short for Grandpa Firstname.
The stories with this list make me laugh:
http://www.namenerds.com/uucn/granny.html
I love reading through those! It has inspired me to think outside the box when I become a parent/grandparent!
Nice! Amma and Afi are Icelandic - my XH was from Iceland - I'm glad I didn't have kids with him, but I always like Amma.
Before my kids can talk I'm sure we'll call the grandparents something of their choosing, I think my parents want to be Grammy and Poppa, and that's pretty close to what the little dude calls Matt's parents, so my kids might end up with two Grammies and two Poppas.
I only have one living grandmother and she was always Grammy, till last year when she decided she wanted us to call her Grandmere.
Jake blowing out the candle at Katie's coming home party
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My mom and dad were grandparents before I was born, so I don't know how the names came about, but their grandchildren all call them Gram & Pep. FIL has passed, but we will teach Colby about him and use whatever name his other grandchildren called him - I honestly don't know what that name is... oops.
MIL is Mamie ("mammy") to her eldest granddaughter (who was mispronouncing Grandma as a baby), so that's what we call her with Colby. She is Grandma to another set of grandkids, and Memaw to another grandchild. The poor woman can't keep track of all her names!
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