We were at Dr. Zubach's office today. His office called yesterday telling me our referral to see the orthopedics specialist was denied and to come in to get a second opinion from another pediatrician for Tyler's in-toeing. After waiting and waiting and waiting, finally Dr. Zubach poked his head in the room we were in and talked to me about what was going to happen next. When he left, Tyler turned to me and said "Where did Zubach go?" This sounded funny I'm still cracking up about it seven hours later.

Always the teacher, I tried explaining to him that the proper way to refer to him was Dr. Zubach, and that another way to refer to him was "the doctor." Then it dawned on me that I was probably confusing the heck out of him. Just recently, within the past couple weeks, Tyler has finally begun referring to his teachers with the proper title: "Ms. Andrea, Ms. Jaclyn, Ms. Julia, etc." Even though Shawn and I have always made their titles part of our dialog, Tyler only recently began picking this habit up and all his teachers keep commenting on how absolutely adorable it is that he calls them Miss Meg, Miss Amber, Miss Shawna, etc. (he sure does have a lot of teachers!) Anyway, now that he's got the titles of his teachers nailed, I'm realizing now that he's like the only kid in the entire school that calls the teachers by this title. It's still very sweet and cute and I think we'll try to carry it over to referring to Mama & Dada's friends this way. (Ms. John and Ms. Gregg will be glad to hear this, haha!)

But in his ongoing quest to get everyone's title straight, Tyler has begun referring to me as Ms. Mama. Yikes. I bet Dr. Zubach would think that was as funny as I think being called Zubach is.