We've been working for months to get Bentley to say grandma and opa. He utterly refuses to use those words. A couple of weeks ago I clued in that the problem was that Kara always calls us mom and dad, and so, Bentley, too, uses those words to refer to us. She uses the titles grandma and opa when talking to Bentley about us, but when she's talking directly to us she calls us mom and dad and so Bentley figures that's our names.
Mark figured out this past week that if you listen closely, Bentley calls us mom and dad and Kara and Matt are mommy and daddy. So he does have distinct titles for us, but it's rather confusing. We're still hoping he'll pick up on the grandma and opa thing soon--before he teaches the twinlets to call us mom and dad, too.
Matt told us that Bentley calls his Uncle Tyler boy. (Tyler is 16.) The twins are baby, never Jackson or Genevieve. Bentley knows exactly who we refer to when we use people's names, but he has no interest in using names himself. Mom, dad, boy, and baby are so much more versatile. Why bother to be specific?!
P.S. Matt confirmed that Bentley calls Grandpa Tim dad. I had been wondering about that.
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