My daughter is two and a half. She really is starting to talk very well. But for some reason she has started calling the dog moma. She does say it slightly different then when she calls me mama. But I often find myself listening very closely to determin if she is talking to me or the dog.

I have said it time and again to her that the dog's name is not moma, it's Sareena. She usually just laughs and calls her moma again.

When it first started I couldn't figure out why she was calling me moma and then smuching to me and patting her leg. Then I quickly realized she was always looking at the dog when she did that. We soon caught on.

Our dog Sareena is her best buddy. The poor dog doesn't have a mean bone in her body and just lets our daughter crawl all over her. Even when the kids go outside to play, she will go out with them, stick with them and watch out for them. Especially since we don't have a complete fence around the yard. I couldn't have asked for a better dog with my kids. So I guess she has earned the title moma too.