The comment posted by Emma's grandma in which she referred to herself as "the other grandma" reminded me of the way Emma came up with to distinguish her two grandmothers. Early on, really as early as she started calling them by name, she started referring to my mom as Curly Gram and Peter's mom as Striped Gram. We recognized that "Curly Gram" referred to the fact that my mom had curly hair, but we weren't sure what the significance of striped in "Striped Gram" was. When we asked Emma, she said, "Curly Gram's hair is curly and Striped Gram's hair is striped." For a long time we assumed she was referring to the streaks of gray in Peter's mom's hair when she called her hair striped. But quite some time after she started using these monikers for her grandmothers, we discovered that she had really meant to say straight. That made much more sense. One grandma had curly hair, one had straight hair. But the names never changed, even after Emma herself realized her error. For ever after, if we ever had confusion about which grandma we were discussing, someone would always ask, "Curly or Striped?"
So, just for clarity, the comment on yesterday's post came from Striped Grandma.
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