The "Call me Grammie" Dilemma : )

"Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud." Hermann Hesse

My dear grandson, Owen, has begun mimicking everything that he hears these days. His ever-expanding vocabulary is growing by leaps and bounds as he begins to find meaning in the world around him through words. It is such fun to hear...he can even sing the "Happy Birthday" song....and, if you listen really closely you might even be able to discern a familiar word or two in the song! : )

He can call his other grandparents by their chosen names: "Mimi and Poppie". He can even say "Dave" as clear as a bell...and, "all done", "no"(he loves that one!), "more", "bye-bye", "eyes", "ears", "nose", "mama", "daddy" and "hi" have, of course, become staples in his speaking vocabulary.

HOWEVER...(and you knew that there had to be a "however" in this post somewhere!) he still cannot say "GRAMMIE". And, believe me, it's not that I haven't tried!

I have repeated over and over, "Grammie", "Gammie", "Ga Ga", "Ammie"....etc. etc. in hopes of hearing him say any of those words in recognition of me. I'd even take "G" or "Grrr" at this point.

But all of my attempts have failed miserably.

Ironically, while doing webcam with him on Sunday...as he saw my face appear on the screen he said, (quite clearly, I might add) "MIMI" !!!

You should know that I am not the only one trying to teach little Owen my name. Adam and Jenny work on it all the time with pictures of me that they have around the house. I was even told that the babysitter works on it, too. Adam told me the other day that he is even offering money to the person who can get him to say "Grammie".

At one point I had thought about maybe changing my name in that obviously the "g-r" combination must be a difficult one for him.

I had decided to let him call me his favorite word right now: Instead of "Grammie" he can call me "NO".

What do you think? : )