What do/will your LOs call their grandparents?

ebox322 · January 2014

So we live in Maryland and all my in laws live in Texas...things have been rocky from the beginning (DH wasn't even talking to his mom the whole time we were dating and not until DS was born). My parents have always been Mimi and Poppy to DS, DHs mom said that she wanted to be "Gran"...fits her I guess. Now all of a sudden because my SIL is pregnant she wants a new grandma name. She texts me, DH, and SIL yesterday saying she'd narrowed it down to Nan, Nonni, or Lola. Seriously....Lola? I think it's like the cutest name ever for a little girl and don't know where the eff she came up with it for her grandma name.

Anyways....DH totally laughed at her and she was like "well do you have anything better?". Put on the spot he was like uhhhhhh....so what are your parents and SO's parents called? I've gotta get Lola off the table....it could ruin a future girlfriend DS may have!

motoLyn · January 2014

Lola.... I actually have a friend who has kids that call their grandma Lola. Not sure where it came from either. My Husband is Danish so names for the fraternal grandparents are farfar (gpa) and farnor (gma). MIL wants to be called farmor or bestemor (translated "best grandma"). I'm Vietnamese so my parents will just be called the equivalent in Vietnamese. Good luck with your MIL, I vote for Nan, or Nana.

DaisyTortilla · January 2014

Well my parents are spanish speaking so they refer to themselves as "Welo" and "Wela." My FIL could not care less. My MIL is a piece of work, she specifically requested "Nana" since I found out I was expecting our 1st baby. She's a nut job thou, so anything she says is invalid. (Everything)

ykristos · January 2014

We'll probably go with the classic grandma and grandpa (gram and gramps, whatever winds up happening).

My niece calls my mom YiaYia, and my SS calls his maternal grandma Vovó, but we'll probably stick with the plain English versions. My dad might be called, "that guy who seems really awkward at interacting with kids."

ebox322 · January 2014

Ok, at least other people call their gams Lola too...so she's only like half off her rocker now. All my I laws are nut jobs too so I doubt this is where the convo is going to end with her! I'm voting Nan too

sammy.k · January 2014

My moms name is Kyle so DS started calling her KyKy. My dad wanted to go by G-Pa? But it turned into Papa. My MIL goes by Grammy Katy. Kinda boring. If your MILs name was close to Lola I'd understand her wanting to use the name, but if her name is like "Barbara" or something then I think that would be silly.

SunnySky06 · January 2014

My mom and dad will be nana and pawpaw(southern thing?) and IL's grandpa and grandma. Not sure what great grandma will be.

How old is your child? I feel like it would be confusing for him to call her something new...

ksyknelvr73 · January 2014

My parents are Gigi and Grumpa, DH's parents are MeeMee (I hate the spelling so much) and PawPaw. DH's parents had grandkids before DH and I ever met so those names were already well established before we had DS, but my son is my parents' first grandchild so I got to weigh in on their names for fun.

Soupy84 · January 2014

My ILs already have a grandchild from my BIL, they are Grandma and Grandpa. We dont want to confuse the kids when they are together, since we all live in the same area, so we will continue with these names.

My parents (well my mom in particular) are a little saddened by the fact that there will be more than one Grandma. Grandma has always been a name of respect and she has been looking forward to being called Grandma for over a decade. We have decided it wont be really confusing once the child is old enough to differentiate between the sets of grandparents. My dad will be called Papa, which is the name we had for his father growing up and holds a special place for our family. So my parents will be Grandma and Papa, I know it doesnt really go together well but I really want to honor my parents with their new names.

jaclynnn · January 2014

My dd calls my parents Mimi and Papa and calls dh parents grandma and grandpo.

julesf817 · January 2014

It's easy for us, my in laws are Irish so to my nieces and nephews they are Mamo and Papo. So that leaves the traditional Grandma and Grandpa to my parents.

Ladiebug30 · January 2014

My parents are Grammy and Papaw as was decided by my 10 year old nephew which is fine with me. My MIL said she wanted to be Grandma and my FIL To be Grandpa when I was pregnant with DS but consistently calls fil papaw. Also my son once said "na-nana" for banana and I made the mistake of telling her. She now wants to be called Nana so she can tell people he asks for her. My maternal grandmother (whom I was very close to and passed away nearly 1 year before DS was born) was Nana. Crazy lady doesn't deserve that honor and can be grandma like she chose first.

katesy21 · January 2014

My parents are MiMi and Grandpa. DH parents are Nanny and Papa.

andoll8 · January 2014

i'm lovin' all these nicknames!

my parents will be gramma and grandad, and DH's folks will be Zhuna and PawPaw.

Xath · January 2014

My parents decided they wanted to be Grannie and Grandpa. Then DS1 decided that wasn't happening. He started calling my mom Abbadabba (because she would sing the Abbadabba song to him) and he started calling my dad Heeyah (because my dad is a black belt and DS1 started mimicking the Hya! sound around him). So they decided to roll with it and are now Abbadabba and Heeyah.

My SMIL already had lots of grandkids, so she's Grammie. My MIL is Grandma. My FIL put up a big fight about not being a grandfather until he's 60 and wanted the kids to call him Bruce, but my H put his foot down (and threatened to teach DS1 to call him Ookie) so he picked Pappy. My mom's mom is Great-Gran, and my dad's mom is G.G. (short for Great-Grandma).

awknyc · January 2014

aimee223 said:

Well, fwiw, I'm friends with a Filipino family and the kids call their grandma who lives with them Lola.

My DS calls H's parents Halmoni and Halaboji (Korean for grandma and grandpa). He calls my mom Grandma (she said she might want to be Nana instead though) and my Dad Grandpa. Since they're divorced, he calls their spouses Grandma Barbara and Grandpa Richard.

Since both DH and & I are Korean, LO will call my parents and ILs Ha-mee and Ha-bee which is the shortened version for halmoni and halaboji until they can graduate onto the actual words. I say that now, but I have a feeling my kids won't know a lick of Korean growing up. I already feel like a failure!

mrsbtobe20122 · January 2014

My DH's Italian parents go by Nona and Papa. My parents have no grandchildren and are still deciding. My mom is interested in GG and Nani (don't really care what she goes by or care for either name), and my dad is going to likely stick with Grandaddy (my family is southern).

ebox322 · January 2014

I love all the suggestions too! Being from Texas (and having a teen mom grandma) mawmaw is still DHs maternal grandmother or I know that would have been a no brainer....I totally hate it too. I hate it even more when DH says it with his twang. @sammy.k her name is Pam...guess she's trying to spice it up, or go off Pamela?

awc1986 · January 2014

My dad will be gramps, as his dad was my gramps and we lost him last year. We need a new gramps. My nephews call FIL and Step-MIL grandpa and grammy, but I much prefer granddad so i might have to push that. Grammy is fine as my Step-MIL is American, so it works.

My mum would have been Nana, so i'll still refer to her as Nana when talking to LO about her. My nephews call MIL Grammy Roz, so i'll do the same there too. Just because they've passed doesn't mean we should act like they never existed.

CiaoBabyOH · January 2014

I may be boring, but I called both my maternal and paternal grandparents Grandma and Grandpa. If we were ever all together, I referred to them as "Grandma + last name". My niece and nephew on DH's side call my in-laws GeeGee and Pawpaw which is fine, but I'm just not a huge fan of those nicknames. I already told my in-laws that we're going to refer to them as Grandma and Grandpa, and if our son ends up coming up with something different on his own, we'll go with that!

mrspopsicle · January 2014

My parents are Mimi and J-pa (no idea where that came from). My sister had kids before me and her in laws insisted on being grandma and grandpa so she came up with other names for my parents and we just went with those.

My in laws are Gigi and Papa. These were also established before we had kids. They are divorced and FIL is never around so I don't refer to him as anything. I highly doubt DD has any idea who he is.

Mittens14 · January 2014

We always referred to them as Grandma and Grandpa to DS, he decided they would be Grandma and Pop Pop for my parents, and Grandma and Grandpa for DH's parents (he only met DH's father once and just referred to him as we indicated). I don't know where he got Pop Pop from but thought it was cute because that's what I've always called my grandfather, so once he did it we started calling my Dad Pop Pop and it stuck. My mom had said before he was born that she wanted to be Mimi, but we said it's up to DS, whatever he decided. I referred to her as Grandma and she would say Mimi but Grandma stuck.

CamrynnsMommy · January 2014

My mom is Nene and my dad and step-dad are Papa (and their last name), my ILs are/were MawMaw and PawPaw.

stinamarie412 · January 2014

My MIL just informed us that she wants to be called Nana and she found a cute bracelet that has nana inscribed and is going to get it. My great Grandmom is nana so to me it sounds old and she likes it, so Whatever. FIL keeps joking that he wants to be called "G-pa fishin buddy" so we'll see.

My niece in NJ calls my dad pop pop and my mom grandma, so I guess we will go with those. Unless my mom (who is here in OH) wants to be called something else, esp since she and my sister don't have a good relationship and my mom had no say in what she wanted to be called.

ETA: fat fingers can't type on mobile I guess.

Luckyu317 · January 2014

Both sets of parents are Grandma and Papa. I suppose we need to look for a good way to differentiate them sooner or later.

AnnieA75 · January 2014

My parents are called Grammie and Papa. My husband's Father passed away, but his Mom is called Achamma, which is the Malayalam word for Grandma. DH is Indian and Malayalam is their native language.

We try to call Achamma once or twice a week. DD will be 2 in March and the other evening she picked up her toy phone and kept saying "Achamma! Achamma!" It was adorable and we thought it was really cool that she gets it.

whitneymarie003 · January 2014

Lola is just a silly suggestion..I've never heard that one before! Our little guy will be calling my dad "Papaw", my mom/step-dad "Oma" & "Opa", & my DH's parents "Grandma" & "Grandpa".

carissa32581 · January 2014

Both mine and DH's parents already have at least one grandchild so we don't have much choice. My mom/stepdad are Nana and Grandad. Dad/stepmom are papaw and Gaga. Inlaws are Grams and Papa

kat8805 · January 2014

My SM and Dad were the only ones who seemed particular about what they were to be called before DD1 even arrived. SM = Nan, Dad = Poppy. My mom some how got named Gacky, we have no idea where it came from but that's what DD started calling her. She hates that it stuck, since I make fun if her and call her Wacky Gacky. So mom is now trying to go by Abuela... SD gets called Dude instead of Dad by my siblings, so we slapped a paw on it and he's Dudepaw. MIL = Grandma, SDIL = Papaw. FIL has been MIA since well before our wedding, and is a total creep anyways, his own kids hate him, so he doesn't get the pleasure of a name, or knowing our family. DD already has plenty of other loving GP's to bother with one douche and his bitchy GF.

Miles2Go · January 2014

We referred to them as grandma and grandpa. Even though she was saying grandpa, she named FIL Papa and my dad Papa John. My mom is still just grandma.

Dellaramsey · January 2014

IL's are Mamaw and Papaw
My mom and her husband are Grandma and Grandpa
Babysitter and her husband are Nana and Pawpaw

MrsT2008 · January 2014

jennish11 said:

My niece already calls my in-laws Nana and Poppy so that's what our little one will call them.

My nieces and nephews call my dad Papa, so we'll stick with that, and my mom has chosen "Oma" - she said it's German or something... but I don't know.

Oma is German for grandmother.

My dad is Opa (German for grandfather) and my mom is Memaw. My ILs are Nana and Papa.

awknyc · January 2014

@aimee223said:

@awknyc said:

aimee223 said:

Well, fwiw, I'm friends with a Filipino family and the kids call their grandma who lives with them Lola.

My DS calls H's parents Halmoni and Halaboji (Korean for grandma and grandpa). He calls my mom Grandma (she said she might want to be Nana instead though) and my Dad Grandpa. Since they're divorced, he calls their spouses Grandma Barbara and Grandpa Richard.

Since both DH and & I are Korean, LO will call my parents and ILs Ha-mee and Ha-bee which is the shortened version for halmoni and halaboji until they can graduate onto the actual words. I say that now, but I have a feeling my kids won't know a lick of Korean growing up. I already feel like a failure!

Ah, it's tough! My H uses a little Korean with him at home but not much. My Korean MIL watches LO half the week when we go to work and only speaks Korean to him. He understands a lot of it, and uses a few Korean words. He calls food ma-ma and he says oo-yoo for milk and he calls me and H uhmma and appa. Things that are dirty are jiji. He also goes around saying "aiiish" when he's frustrated with something! I'm sure there's more. We'll probably send him to weekend Korean school at IL's church when he's older too. I don't speak Korean at all, but I try and find him Korean kid videos on Youtube and things like that.

That's awesome! I feel like our kids will call us Mom & Dad just I call my mom Mom, but I do call my dad Abba. It's tough b/c our Korean is at a 6 yo's capacity and our parents don't live close by which would be a huge bonus in teaching them. I think the Korean bbo bbo bbo videos will help or at least they did when I was growing up, but I absolutely hated Korean school. I will need to make a more conscious effort to incorporate these little words into their daily lives, DH is already considering Rosetta Stone for LO.

MamaCheez · January 2014

To my DDs my ex's parents are Voo-voo & Va-Va (can't spell it right) but it's Portuguese. This baby's grandparents are Noni & Poppy. My parents to all three are Grandma & Papa.

QOTR · January 2014

This is the first grandchild for my in-laws. I gave FIL/SMIL and MIL this book, so that they could choose something. So far, I've not received any feedback. The only name that is off-limits is Grammy. That's what my mom was called by my nieces and great-nephews. It's important to me to let my child know her through my stories and my memories, so she will be the only Grammy.

kramja01 · January 2014

Where we live now, a lot of kids call their grandparents mee-maw and pee-paw. I'm not a fan at all. Growing up, I had a Grandma and Grandpa and a Grandma Lillian and a Grandpa Henry (boring, I guess). DH grew up with a mom mom and a pop pop, so I'm guessing that's what his parents will probably go with. I think my parents will go with the traditional grandma and grandpa.

hatrats · January 2014

My dad proclaimed that he will be known as Popov (vodka is his favorite), but my mom is having issues coming up with something reasonable. She suggested something completely ridiculous like... Reigna or something.. that had nothing to do with "grandma" or her name, and I just kind of gave her a look hoping she'd go back to the drawing board.

DH's parents already had grand kids who call them Grandma (firstname) and Grandpa (firstname), so I guess ours will call them the same thing.

mrstengallonhat1 · January 2014

Does anyone else thinks it's odd when people "request" to be called something? I thought the child just kind of decided. Maybe that's just me though.

My mom is practically forcing "Mema" (mee-mah) down our throats, and both DH and I hate it! She refuses to go by Grandma or Gram. I even suggested Gigi or Mimi as cuter options, and she wants none of it!

Most likely, my dad and his "wife" (for all intents and purposes) will be Grandma and Grandpa. My dad isn't the type to complain or claim names,so I'm sure he'll go along with whatever this LO ends up calling him.

DH's parents are Italian, so I thought it would be cute for them to go by Nana/Papa or Nonnie and Papa, but who knows.

danabsd · January 2014

My parents are Papou and Yia-yia Greek for Grandpa and Grandma. H's dad is Grandpa and his wife is Boo-Boo, you can ask my nephew where that came from. H's mom is Grandma and her fiancé is just his name Jon. My parents chose to called the traditional Greek, my oldest nephew worked it out with my in laws before I even met MH. I think the oldest grandchild kinda dictates theses things. *iPad thought break*'Lola is a ridiculous name to call a grandmother, unless it is her name.

ebox322 · January 2014

I totally agree with PPs about grandparents requesting a name. Our situation is kind of weird because she's only ever seen DS once when he was about a year old, whereas we see my parents everyday so he's had a chance to actually call them something.

I guess SILs new baby will be the golden child of the in law side since things are already shaking up. "Lola" aka Nanny aka Gran aka Grammy exclaimed the other day (via text so it was a thought out thought) that she can't believe she'll be a grandmother at the end of the summer (when SIL is due)....wow thanks Lola

Baileypearl · January 2014

My parents are grandma and pap pap. Pappy J for husbands step dad and pappy Keith for dad. My goofy ass MIL wanted to be called Ta-ta.....so we call her grandma Stephanie.

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