The two daughters I married off last year have wasted no time in getting to work insuring the immortality of the Jones gene pool. Both are due within 5 days of each other.
We’re awfully excited. I have a question though.
Both of the little ones’ great grandpas are still alive and well. One is “Papa” (German genes) and the other is “Grandpa”. So we’re all trying to figure out what they should call me to avoid confusion.
So, anybody have any suggestions for good “grandpa” names?
Wow!!! How exciting!!! Congratulations to all of you!
As for names…gosh. I don’t know. We have 3 grandfathers for my children (well…did…long story on that one). Their names are Pop Pop, Grandpop, and Poppy. I like all of them. Or you can be Papa Doc
From personal experience, the grandyoun’s will name you. You won’t do it.
I was gonna be Granny B. That lasted until she was old enough to name me herself.
Grandma Betsy
This is true. My mother insisted she was going to be “Nana”, which is fine. It was different, and I liked that because it didn’t interfere with the other names of grandmothers. But for some reason, Katherine (Izzlet #1) couldn’t say Nana, so she called her “Nama”. She’s still Nama to this day.
My mother in law met with a similar fate. She was “Grandma Grunt” forever, until my niece was old enough to talk, and she changed that to “Gunkee”. I have no idea how the first one came about, but we all still call her Gunkee…sometimes Gunké if we’re feeling French-ish
Congrats Doc! That’s wonderful. My father-in-law said there’s one thing better than being a parent, and that’s a grandparent. He absolutely loves my son Anyway, we have: Nana and Papa, Mum-mum and Gaga, and Grandma and Pop-Pop. Good luck with the names!
Too true. I have a good friend whose grandkids call him “Nack Nack”.
Whenever I ask him why he gets evasive and changes the subject. I’m betting there’s a great story there somewhere.
About that…I wasn’t actually thinking in terms of the Haitian connection. I just thought it sounded cute at the time It wasn’t even until you mentioned it that I actually thought about it. Ay yi yi…and I’ve now opened myself up for much ridicule from the peanut gallery, I’m sure.
My wife and I became grandparents in our 40’s and neither of us felt “old” enough to have anything with grand, gram or especially granny. She’s Mom Mom and I’m Pop Pop. It works out.
It wasn’t even until you mentioned it that I actually thought about it. Ay yi yi…and I’ve now opened myself up for much ridicule from the peanut gallery, I’m sure.
