https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:09:13 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1134075 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 07:27:05 +0000 autumn865 1134075@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents are Nana and Grandpa and my in- laws are grandmom (gram) and grandpop (pop). They picked their names. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1134056 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 06:39:22 +0000 Smurfette 1134056@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents are Nonni and Poppi. ILs are Poopaw and Lili. Nephews came up with Poopaw and I hate it but whatever, if he wants to be called poo that is up to him. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1134025 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 04:47:22 +0000 Penny Lane 1134025@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my parents chose their names! my mama is Grams, and my dad chose Poppy. I was annoyed when he chose and started calling himself poppy without asking me... it was actually one of my favourite girls names!!</p> <p>DHs parents are grandma [name] and grandpa. I'm not sure who chose their names, their oldest grandchild is only a few years younger than I am, so I obvs wasn't around then! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1134023 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 04:38:29 +0000 Ocean girl 1134023@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents are Nan and Papa... I think Nan will turn into Nanny, which is what we called my mom's mom. She passed away in January and my mom found it too soon to be "Nanny" but I think she will come around.<br /> DH's parents are Vavu (grandfather) and Vavo (grandmother). His dad is Portuguese. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133710 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 18:31:42 +0000 holdonforonemoreday 1133710@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom is Gramma and my dad is Grampa. My grandfather is Grandpa Ron.<br /> My inlaws are Nana and Grampa Dave (MILs husband), and Grampa (DH's dad) and Lisa... DH's grandparents are Grandma Ede and Grampa Jack.<br /> It's so confusing for my LOs... </p> <p>However when DS talks about Gramma and Grampa, he is referring to my parents. He loves my mom SO much. He asks multiple times a day to see Gramma and Grampa and go to their house or to the beach with them. He talks to my mom on the phone a lot. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133705 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 18:20:55 +0000 Rubies 1133705@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents are: halmee and habuhjee (it is the baby way of saying grandma and grandpa in Korean)</p> <p>In laws: mama and yehyeh (cantonese)...except that my mil wants to be known as "fun grandma". </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133703 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 18:15:56 +0000 bhbee 1133703@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>MIL and FIL are grandma and grandpa. My mom is Grammy and her husband (remarried 3 years ago) is uncle bill. Was not doing a real grandparent name there. My dad who passed away when I was 19 will be referred to as granddad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133698 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 18:06:38 +0000 Boheme 1133698@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents are CeCe and Big Daddy. My grandparents are Grandma-Grandma (the same thing I nicknamed my great grandma when I was little) and Papa (what I call my grandpa).</p> <p>MIL changes her mind like every day what she wants to be called. FIL is Papaw. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133510 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 14:53:47 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 1133510@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nana &amp; Grandpa, Grammy, and Gramps. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133441 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 13:39:11 +0000 yin 1133441@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My in-laws are pop pop and grandma. LO calls my parents gong gong and paw paw (Cantonese). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133424 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 13:11:32 +0000 heartonastring 1133424@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH's parents are Grandma and Grandpa. My dad and stepmum are Nana and Papa. My mum is Neni (pronounced neigh-knee), which is taken from Hungarian (my mum's first language), but isn't the actual word for grandmother. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133362 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 12:02:48 +0000 mediagirl 1133362@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mt parents became Gram (as planned) and GrampsB after a joke that didn't go away. :-) My inlaws go by Grammie and Grampie but I always mess those up and spell them with y's.... Ooops. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133361 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 12:01:56 +0000 jmarionsmith 1133361@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <br /><p><i>This comment has been deleted by the original poster.</i></p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133351 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 11:54:48 +0000 HLK208 1133351@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nana and Grand Dad! For the longest time, it sounded like B called Grand Dad "dadad" which I don't think DH loved! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133347 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 11:46:36 +0000 regberadaisy 1133347@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO calls MIL grandma; said it for the first time yesterday! She calls FIL pah pah. Think Italian accent PA PA.<br /> She will call my mom "yeen ma" which is maternal grandmother in my dialect. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133287 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 10:47:21 +0000 lovehoneybee 1133287@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well the other McK grandsons call ILs Nana and Pops, so that's what we'll teach him. My mom is currently Grandma K (Katie) but I told her we'll try to teach him another name for get if she wants, she's just undecided on what (her other grand kids, who E doesn't know, call her Grandma Katie). And my father and stepmother will be Grandpa Jon and Grandma Connie, although I don't foresee him having much, if any, interaction with them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133254 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 10:13:41 +0000 Dandelion 1133254@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ds calls my parents Gramma and Papa...and calls his dad's dad Papa. My MIL (who isn't his g-ma by blood, but she considers him her grandson), has been trying to convince him to call her Gramma for years, but it never sticks...he just calls her and my FIL by their first names. It's weird to him, lol.</p> <p>But, LO is going to be required by my MIL to call her gramma, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133221 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 09:30:41 +0000 avivoca 1133221@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Inlaws are Moomaw and Po, and my parents want to be Nana and OWO (oh wise one). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133204 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 09:18:10 +0000 lilteacherbee 1133204@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NavyRN2012: My grandparents were/are Nanny and Granddaddy :)</p> <p>Well LO isn't here yet and he will be the first grandchild on each side. My grandmother is still alive, so she will be Nanny to him as well. My mom wants to be Nana and I don't think my dad has said. Maybe Poppy because that's what his dad was?</p> <p>MIL wants to be called Nonnie and FIL wants to be PapPap (like his father was called). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133196 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 09:11:19 +0000 jhd 1133196@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom wants to be Granny because she was very close to her grandmother &amp; that was her name. My dad will be Grandpa. ILs are Mawmaw &amp; Pawpaw. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133141 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 07:58:06 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1133141@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@beaker: I don't know anyone outside my mom &amp; dads whole family that can pronounce nono!</p> <p>Everyone thinks it's no-no, but it isn't. I can't even think of a way to phonetically say it! </p> <p>It doesn't help that we spell it incorrectly (it should be nonno) and say it incorrectly as well. We're bad Italians! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133136 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 07:50:13 +0000 Mrs. Tiger 1133136@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents are grandma/grandpa (precedent set from my older siblings kids, or I think my mom would have chosen "grandmommy") and my in-laws are Awwa (grandma in Telengu, the language my MILs mom spoke) and Thatha (grandpa in Tamil, the language DHs whole family speaks). I love it except my folks can't pronounce awww/thatha correctly so when they try to ask LO about them he has no idea what they're talking about :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133129 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 07:44:01 +0000 lamariniere 1133129@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For my DH's parents it's mamie and papie. For my dad it's papie + last name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133124 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 07:38:25 +0000 Mrs. Train 1133124@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents are grandma and papa. My in laws are Grammy and grandpa. They all picked their names. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133121 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 07:34:27 +0000 TheSwissWifeStyle 1133121@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No lo here yet, but to my neice my mom is Granny Jo. I'm not a fan! When the time comes for us, I'm thinking just Gran and Pop. And then dh's folks will be Lola/Lolo. My neice also calls my grandmother (who I call Mom-Mom) Gigi, for great grandmother. I think that's cute! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133115 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 07:29:37 +0000 MsMamaBear 1133115@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She calls my mama and my grandma, Grandma and my granddaddy Big Daddy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133112 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 07:25:54 +0000 SugarplumsMom 1133112@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom wanted to be called Apong (Illocano), a language she never spoke to me as a kid, and one that doesn't come natural for her to use. It was the first time I've even heard of that word. </p> <p>She ended up being mormor (Swedish for mother's mother), but LO hasn't learned to say it yet. My grandma (LO's great-gmom) is Lola, it's the same name I call her and it's currently one of LO's fave word atm. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133105 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 07:08:15 +0000 NavyRN2012 1133105@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents are Nanny and Granddaddy. DH's parents are Nana and Papa. Both sets picked their names. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133092 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 06:47:47 +0000 Ra 1133092@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nothing yet. When the times comes my parents will be Nana and Pop and DH's parents will be Grandmom and Grandpa. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-does-your-lo-call-their-grandparents-1#post-1133088 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 06:44:45 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1133088@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swedishfish: it's cute now but I don't want a 16yo to be calling him by his first name LOL</p> <p>And since we have the first grandchild, I think she wil be setting the rules on what to call grandparents! I also don't want my siblings future kids calling my dad by his first name. </p>