Grandparent Names

I wrote in my blog a few postings ago, "What`s in a Name", about how I am going to have to start going by Genevieve instead of Gigi. There is one sweet boy that has another name in mind. Our Grandson just turned 17 months, a few days ago, and I think he has finally settled on names for me and my husband.

Already ordered one!

When we made the first trip to Texas in May to look at houses, our Grandson had settled on the name Papa for my husband, and that name has not wavered. He pronounces it Baba, and he is totally in love with his Grandpa. In Persian, Baba means: father; grandfather; wise old man ; sir. How smart is this baby that he is already speaking Persian. After our May trip, when we returned to Virginia, we would talk on Facetime, the baby would see me first, and start asking for Baba.  Cute? Yes, but also I was getting a little jealous.
I WANTED A GRANDMA NAME!!!!.

The top 10 popular Grandmother names are: Grandma, Nana, Grammy, Granny, Mimi, Gram, Nanny, Oma, Mamaw and Gran. At this point I would have taken any of these. Well, most of them. Not loving Granny, Nanny, or Oma. The new trend that I see is that Grandchildren are calling their Grandmas Gigi. That is not happening for me. When your name is Gigi, it is not an option for your Grand-babies to call you by your name. It needs to be special.

If I drank coffee, this would be my cup!

The name of my blog is "Busy Geemaw", and I thought my Grandson would just call me Geemaw. Nope! When I left Texas in May, it looked like the winner was Mamaw. Nope! When we moved down here in June, it went from Mamaw, to Nana, and back to Mamaw again. I didn`t think he would ever settle on a name. Then one day he called me Meemaw, and that was it. He hasn`t changed it since.
I am MEEMAW!

I should have known that Meemaw would be the official Grandma name for me, because both of my sons wanted that from the start. True "Big Bang Theory" fans, they both love that Sheldon calls his Grandma, Meemaw. Now, I am sure I will have to start singing "Soft Kitty" every time he is sick. Do I have to call him Moonpie, because he is nummy-nummy and I could just eat him up?  OK, enough "Big Bang" references.

I went to pick "Moonpie" up at Daycare last week. When I got to the door, he was sitting in his little chair at a table getting ready for his snack.  He looked up, saw me, and said, "Meemaw! He got up and ran to me.

Words cannot describe how it feels when that baby looks up at me and calls me Meemaw.

It just doesn`t get any better than that!