Mum has decided that she wants the kids to call her Nanna, and dad doesn’t care. Adam and Sarah have Alex calling him Granddad, though I suggested that “Sir” had a nice ring to it.
But Granddad has kinda stuck (when Alex isn’t calling him Peter), and now that Alex is learning how to talk in earnest, he’s trying to say Granddad.
Except, when he says it, it sounds like…
Gonad.
I haven’t stopped laughing in two days.
Disco Knitter 
As long as you Dad is fine with it, it’s all good!
my girl’s biological father is named Richard
when Holly was learning to talk she called him “shitchard” (which stuck)
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Too funny everyone – please keep them coming!
I’m still laughing…
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Hunter called grandma “dung” for a good while (it’s short for dungma, don’t you know?). Grandma still gets a bit offended when we mention it, and I still can’t contain the giggles.
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Hehehe. My 2yo has issues saying ‘peanut’. She regularly asks for penis butter sandwich please? It always cracks me up.
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Well, that certainly made me chuckle!
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My father wanted the full “grandfather” or nothing. Somewhere down the line, my eldest called him “grandduffer’ which fitted beautifully at the time. It stuck.
On the other hand, Mum is known to all and sundry including great grandchildren and surrogate great grandchildren as “Moo” which is a term of affection. My ex and his mother were absolutely horrified that mum happily accepts that.
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Since you asked – my all time favourite, from our niece, “five little ducks went out one day, over the hill and far away. Mother duck said f%@k,
f%@k,f%@k,f%@k,” etc. And isn’t that exactly what you would say if your kids all ran off?
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tee hee hee… gonad… tee hee hee.
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Gonad. Funnee! I love it. It’s probably going to stick for ever in the family archives, so I Gonad is ok with it.
Mine have a Nonna and a Buddha (and I’m not Italian nor buddhist).
The gonad thing reminds me of a budgie my sister had in a flat in Double Bay (the shady end) which she named Fellatio. Long story but the budgie ended up at home with us. Mum used to walk around the house chanting ‘fellatio. fellatio’, talking to the budgie in an innocent and animal loving way.
We let her go for a few weeks, and then sat her down and told her. But it was an amusing few weeks.
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If anyone has advice on how to shift the pronunciation of fork! fork! fork! to something that sounds less like f%@k! f%@k! f%@k!, send it my way.
Alternately, I need to get it on video and somehow profit wildly.
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I suppose “Fark” doesn’t work for you? It works for me 😉
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With thanks to Gonad, one of Alex’s first words was very clearly “bugger”. We never got it on video but it is still heard very occasionally ….
Alex has also taken to calling for Gonad and Nanna at home when they are not around. I was in tears 2 days ago as he started going “Nanna Nanna Nanna “and then “Gonad Gonad Gonad “. Poor Gonad will never live this one down.
(Luckily the other Grandad sees the funny side tooas that what he will be called when they come on their next visit).
I rang my sister one day to hear her eldest in the background going “f%&$ f%^& F%^*” . She was very embarrassed and explained that it was actually truck.
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I’ve heard Alex say Bugger, I have to admit, I thought it was quite funny – just like his father 😉
Inigo has started talking up a storm. In the last week he has more than doubled his vocabulary. So far, nothing as funny as Gonad 😦 I’ll give him some time.
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