We knew the mother’s name since season one

Sorry if this has been talked about before!! But I was rewatching the show for the millionth time and I noticed in Season 1, episode 9, Ted is talking to a stripper. She gives him her stripper name and then is like, actually, “my name is Tracy”. And then Ted tells his kids that that is how he met their mother and they freak out. He quickly follows up with “just kidding!” But then we find out in season 9, that the mom’s name is in fact, Tracy! Which explains why the kids briefly believed their dad.