Ditto, except mine's "Pops", and AKA "Funcle" to all the nieces and nephews.
All you Grandpaws out there…
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Boompa. Anybody remember the old Jimmy Stewart movie "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation?" From 1962.
I started out being PawPaw, over the course of the last 6 months I have become the absolute best “BOP-PAW” you could imagine! I fill with pride every time I here that little voice call for me!!
My daughter got married late last year, and they're trying.
The past couple of years, she thought it was funny to call me "Father," so I joined in and started calling her "daughter" every time we greet and hug.
I now realize this might threaten my plans to claim my dad's dad's "Pop." She'll probably teach her kids to call me "Grandfather," and it'll stick because my sons won't get married for years.
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"Chief." And it's glorious. At first, I wanted "El Jefe," but I figured that might get garbled into "Heavy."
My dad ended up being Grandpapa.
Grandmother names crack me up. They all want to stay young, and take some version of Mimi, Cici, Gigi, Bebe, etc. My favorite aunt said screw all that, call me Granny. I love it.
Grandmother names crack me up. They all want to stay young, and take some version of Mimi, Cici, Gigi, Bebe, etc. My favorite aunt said screw all that, call me Granny. I love it.
My maternal grandmother wanted to be called M'Lady, for her name was indeed Lady such and such. My older sister pronounced Ra-Ra (long A's) instead, and it stuck. We got a kick out of Ray Ray Bivens playing in the secondary.
I am BaBa for I helped the my youngest grandchild with his syllables and would play The Beach Boys "Barbara Ann" for him.
My youngest child, my only biological one and my parents only grandchild, is just now starting to pronounce words. My father chose Papa. My mother, not falling too far from her mother's tree, chose Sassy. I cannot wait until my son butchers that and it sticks!
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