Names for grandparents

mwsolis · October 2014

how did you come up with the names for the grandparents? We still don't have official names and I don't want to go with traditional granma and grandpa.

MrsLeahBentley · October 2014

We let the grandparents choose themselves, but unfortunately two grandpas want to be Papa. My mom is Gigi, and MIL is Meema (which I personally hate).

Ktorrisi · October 2014

My mom is Mima, my father is "Ampa" and dh's parents are grandma and grandpa

caballablanca · October 2014

DD picked names. We called them grandma and grandpa, but she calls grandpa papa instead.

mwsolis · October 2014

I like Gigi, where did it come from? I was thinking of picking the names for my parents,Gigi and babo. My MIL is bumcha which is polish. She named herself.

cachoque · October 2014

My mother asked to be Nana since that's what she called her grandmother. FIL is Paps bc the whole family calls him that already. I'm fine with anything, although I do feel a little childish when I use both of those. I suppose that's the point!

[Deleted User] · October 2014

My parents picked when my nephew was born - Mia and Papa. DH's parents were already Grammy and Pop Pop from my other nephew, too.

BabyM82714 · October 2014

My mom is Mimi. My dad is Pappy. My grandma to her is GiGi and my grandpa to her is Papa. I have 3 total sets of grandparents myself left so besides the ones the live close the others will likely be Great Grandma (insert last name) to her. BF parents are grandma and grandpa.

All together LO has 2 sets of grandparents and 4 sets of great grandparents. This makes for ALOT of names and ALOT more spoiling lol

klauke_t13 · October 2014

Both of DH's parents and my dad have passed away. My brother's kids call my mom grandma and my step dad is just Jeff. The nieces and nephew have a grandpa on the other side of the family, but Jeff will be the only grandpa figure our LO will have. I was thinking about papa Jeff, but I'm not sure how DH will feel about it. He and Jeff have had some personality issues in the past.
I guess we will just let LO decide.

BeachM · October 2014

The grandparents picked theirs. For my parents we started calling them what DS1 did when he started talking.

Grandmother came out as Mug for whatever reason, so my mom is Mug. Granddad came out as Gee Dad so that's what we call my dad.

The IL's are Grandma and Papa and DS1 had no trouble pronouncing those.

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ungraceful13 · October 2014

My IL's already had names from my nephew so my parents picked something that wasn't that. We have Grandpa, YaYa, Pops, and Nana.

poofwok · October 2014

Mami, Papi, Bubbie & Zaidie

pmpkn219 · October 2014

We also let them choose amongst themselves. 2 of the 3 grandfathers are both Grandpa, but everyone else has their "own" name. Nonni, grandpa/grampa (we pronounce both words the same), Nana, poppop and Grammy

marathonmommy82 · October 2014

They chose. .
My dad is GP
my mom wanted Grammy, ds started calling her gamman and it stuck
Fil is pop pop
Mil is gigi

jenniferurs · October 2014

Grandpa, Grandma, and Grandma.

My mom wanted to be called Nana and my MIL Sugar and I put the kabosh on both real quick.

Valancyy · October 2014

MIL is Mimi, she picked that out herself. FIL is Pee-Pa (my oldest started that).

My parents are Grandpa and Gramonica (my mom's name is Monica, and we would say "Grandma Monica", so it got all garbled into one word...and that's what the boys call her! It's kind of funny, since it sounds like they are calling her by her first name.

rockyrollgirl · October 2014

FIL and MIL: Papa and Mamey

My mom: Grammy

My dad: Opa

They chose.

noycela · October 2014

We let grandparents choose for the most part (when DS1 was born) ...

My mom - Mimi
My dad- Granddad
DH mom - Nana
DH step-dad - Pa (was "grandpa until DS1 started calling him Pa)
DH step-mom - Grandma
DH dad - Grandpa

jenniferurs · October 2014

hmctagg01 said:

We have the first grandchild on both sides. Everyone is grandma or grandpa until she's old enough to pick/decide on their names. I think MIL wanted a fancy name, but I kind of made fun of it so she is going with grandma. I don't feel bad though. She's the type that would have picked Glam-ma of something.

My mom referred to herself as Glamma once. I threw up in my mouth.

jenniferurs · October 2014

cricketsue4u said:

jenniferurs said:

Grandpa, Grandma, and Grandma. My mom wanted to be called Nana and my MIL Sugar and I put the kabosh on both real quick.

Haha, what would possess a grown adult to want to be called "Sugar"?! :-)

I ask myself that question every day.

GatorGirl1013 · October 2014

My husband's mom is Nonny (not sure of it the spelling. I have to ask everytime I go to write it on something)
Not sure what his stepfather is.

My mom is Babula.

Both my dad and his biological dad died in 2011 so they don't really have names yet. I know I'm going to use Polish for grandpa for my dad but have to look it up again.

wandsandwine · October 2014

MIL is deaf so she is grandma so LO can learn the sign for it and my mom is Grammy Kimmy, she chose it

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