Hi Girls,
Read this thread and thought it was funny, because no matter what you want your kids to call their granparents, they come up with their own versions as soon as they can talk. When we were little, we were supposed to call my dad's mum "nana", but we ended up calling her our "banana".
My poor M-I-L kept a ride-on tractor at her house for my little boy and has been known ever since to my two kids as "Granny Tractor"
When my kids were very young, we visited my own gran when my grandad died. It was just before the funeral and there must have been a lot of talk about 'rosaries' (rosary), which confused my two who have called her "Granny Rosen" ever since!
My cousin's little girl refers to her gran by the name of her then little Yorkshire Terrier dog (who's since died)
My nephew calls one of his grandmothers "granny sticks" (because she has walking sticks).
I had gone to the trouble of asking our mums what they wanted to be called when I was pregnant with my first, but kids just come up with their own nicknames and they stick for years!
My little boy is now 10 and still calls her his "granny tractor" (she preferred plain old 'gran', but loves the children's version, even signing cards with the name they use for her).
Most mum's worry they're getting old at the thought of being a grandmother for the first time, that's why they don't like 'grandma', 'nana' etc. but they soon get used to it.
etc... but she is stuck on what to be called. My sister-in-law is pregnant at the moment but mum isn't sure what she wasnts to be called. They have a step grandson at the moment and he came up with my dads name (Papa Ray) but he just calls my mum nanna!
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