Ah Mah

As you may have noticed, mommy and daddy call mommy's mother "Ah Mah." This is a Chinese way of saying grandma.

Because it's Chinese, "Ah Mah" is spoken tonally. There's something about the Mah that goes upwards. Something that daddy can't say.

Daddy calls her "Ah Ma" instead. Nobody corrected him on this until last week. "Ah Ma", it turns out, means "the dog" in Thai.

Ah Mah told mommy what daddy's been calling her, and said that I would start thinking of her as a dog if daddy doesn't cut it out. So instead of learning how to say "Ah Mah" with the right tones, daddy has taken to calling her "Kun Yaiy." This means mommy's mom in Thai. He can say this a lot better than "Ah Mah".

Lest you think that Ah Gong gets off easy on this one, Ah Mah calls him "Gong Gong." Normally this means Grandpa in Chinese, but the way she pronounces it, it means "Crazy."