Grandparents

My mum and Dad had already been grandparents for 11 years when our bubba decided to come along, so they were already named. SO you'd think that the inlaws would go with something else................but no! They are also Grandma and Grandad!

DH and my Grandma's are still here too, so in all Cooper has 4 Grandmas!

Try and convince them to go with Nana and Poppa!

my mum is really fuzzy about this (poor MIL!!!) she wants to be nana as she thinks grandma sounds too old so my parents will be Nana and Grandad and inlaws can be what they want I dont mind as it could be Nana Jill and Nana Chris (but my mum wont like that!!!! she exclusively wants to be called Nana) talk about annoying!

My mum was happy to be grandma and B's parents claimed Nan and Poppa.

My then 3 yr old sorted out what his grandparents would be called. One day he was with Nana (DH's mum) and told her that she was Nana Jos (her name) and the other Nana (my mum) was Nana Red (cos she has a red car!) so that has stayed like that. Then he started calling Poppa (DH's step-dad), Cheif, as that's the name Poppa would call Rico, so he became Poppa Cheif. And my dad is still just Poppa. Then Dh's real dad over in Oz whose Maori, is Koro.

My Nana made up her named that her great-grandchildren could call her - Granna. Made up from Great-Nana. I think it's cute! But once again, my Poppa is the great-grandchildren's Poppa too. Eventually the children do suss them out.

Both sides had already "claimed" something by the time Nat and I got married - my parents were Nanma and Poppa, and my inlaws already had 2 grandkids, and were Gran and Grandad, so that was fine.

Growing up, I had 3 Nana's, 1 Grandad, 3 Poppas, and 2 great-grandmothers. We just used first names to distinguish them except for the great grandmothers - they were Great-Nan and Great-Grandma. It works out in the end.

In laws are Grandma and Grandad- they already have grandchildren and thats what they call them so we just stuck with that. My parents are Grammy and Poppa- both of them Charlotte came up with herself! My grandmother is the only 'great' left and she is Great Gram.

Keira has 13 Grandparents (4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents and 1 Great Great Grandparent) Somehow they all have different names, except for 2 Nana's (one of which she has only seen a few times and calls her daddy's nanna)
My mum really didnt think she was old enough to be a nana or grandma so came up with 'Granna'.

My mum is Granny, she thinks she can be a young vibrant Granny and suits the name well. My dad is Poppa. . Arabella has seen her Paternal grandparents 3 times (due to their lack of effort) and want to be Noona and Grandpa. . So I tell her its Nana and Grandpa.
My friend has two Nannys and when she is talking about them it's Nanny "smith" and Nanny "Jones" and that seems to work well

DH's parents were already Nana and Grandad to DH's 16 1/2 year old, as well as his neice. (dh's not his sons). I grew up knowing 4 grandparents, and then met my mothers father at 13, and all 5 of them had their own names. Before Blair was born I asked my Mum and Dad what they wanted to be called, my mother thought that Blair could decide what to call her himself, but I wanted a name that I could call her when he was around. She got called 'Nanny Lyn' by some kids who use to live across the road, so we are still kinda fluctuating between that and Grandma.

My Dad and my sisters decided that Dad was also a Grandad, and because his father is still alive, Blair has 3 Grandads, so we will have to figure out a more clear cut way on telling them apart. My Gran will stay as a Gran, and my Nana will more than likely become a Granna as well (I refered to her as Granna once when we took our pets to visit my Mum).

Complete side note, both my sisters have requested not to be 'Auntie J' and 'Auntie M' they just want to be refered to as J or M, and we are calling my Fathers partner Auntie T as she is not much older than me.

My parents started out as Grandma and Grandad but are now "Ninny" and "Neema" coz that's what Maya came up with when she was learning to talk and it stuck. The gremlins will no doubt call them that too. Maya calls my grandparents Great Ninny and Great Neema (and my grandma reckons he really is a Great Ninny lol!).

Growing up we had Nana and Grandad and Grandma and Grandad and we differentiated between the two Grandads by calling them Nana's Grandad and Grandma's Grandad.