He doesn't call them anything yet, because he's non-verbal. But we refer to the ILs as Grandma and Grandpa and my parents as Nana and Pop Pop. Both of these were already in use before C was born. ETA: My parents chose Nana and Pop Pop (in consultation with my sister), because my sister's MIL is already Grammy. Not sure about my ILs.
My mother is Grammy. Both of our fathers and my stepfather are grandpa or grandpa firstname. No MIL, step MIL just goes by her first name (we are not close). My grandmother is Nana.
The adults picked their own names. Only one off limits is Papa, since that's what DH goes by.
Post by dizzycooks on Oct 18, 2015 21:01:35 GMT -5
We called them all grandma/grandpa first name. It's stuck with everyone except my mom who is apparently Grammy and quite pleased with that. She wanted to be nana, but it's similar to my stepmoms name so I didn't want the confusion. We have 3 grandmas and 2 grandpas.
My mom - granny My stepmom - nanny (DS can't say either)
Mil - nana
FIL- papa
My grandmother - hen nain (welsh for great grandmother) - it should sound like hey nine but DS calls her hey nigh since he can't get the n sound at the end.
My parents picked what they wanted to be called. Our older nieces call my ILs Grammy and Pawpaw, but Caramini just called my MIL Mimi and it stuck. It suits her better because she seems too young for Grammy.
ETA My H's grandmother who is 101 and whom he called "grandmother" is called Gigi (like G.G. for great-grandmother)
DD made up complete nonsense terms for DH's parents. She calls my own parents exactly what I call them, including "Papi" for my dad, which means "Daddy" in Spanish. (And a totally weird nn everyone in my family has for my mom.)
My parents are Grandma and Grandpa, sometimes dd calls my mom Grammy.
When my nephew was little he couldn't pronounce Grandma, so called mil Maga ( Ma-Gah) and it stuck. All the grandkids call her that now. Fil is called Papa.
Gmil is called Grady since she is a Great grandma. She chose that for herself.
SS called them grandma first name, and called my dad by his first name. But it was so formal and I hated it. My mom wanted to be grandmommy, which is what I called her mom. But dd1 couldn't say it and my mom pushed and pushed until dd1 screamed at her, no! Mimi! And that was it. After that I convinced my MIL to try Nana. My nephew was already 2 but not really talking, and BIL/SIL liked the idea. So when it turned out that nephew could actually say it, that stuck too. I feel a little bad that ss has a different name for her, but he's 12y older than the others and it hasn't really been a big deal.
eta: My mom chose hers. I kind of chose my dad's for him. My paternal grandfather was Grampy, so I used it for my dad. I also made up MIL's. She felt like grandma was too old sounding. Gram is working well for everyone, but I think hers may end up evolving to whatever DS decides to call her.
My mom is Cece, it's a play on her name. We wanted something that my (step)niece could call her without stepping on any toes.
My dad is Granddad.
My in-laws are Tutu and Dude. My MIL chose her name (she's Hawaiian) and I chose FILs. It was initially kind of a joke but he never really settled on a name. We all started referring to him as dude and it really stuck with DD, probably because it was so easy to say. It fits him very well, he's an old surfer dude.