Puppy-Love

Jocelyn our soon to be 5 year old is absolutely darling just about every minute of the day. But we are a little concerned about one thing--she is positively obsessed with Peter Pan!!! She has been in the mode of "trying to grow up much faster than mom and dad want" for about a year now, but it's just been in the last six months that her casual interest for Peter Pan has turned into a full blown obsession. I was first tipped off when I found her crying in her bedroom, wearing a dress-up dress, and holding a small silk flower. I asked what was wrong and she said that she was all dressed to marry Peter Pan but he didn't show up and now she didn't think he loved her any more. (What are they showing on Disney channel these days?) I consoled her as best as I could and told her the proverbial "One day you'll meet a nice boy who will love and appreciate you". She calmed down and I thought she'd be over it in five minutes and back to playing "little girl" games. I couldn't have been more wrong. Since then she and Peter Pan have "made up" and he is the silent and slightly invisible (but don't say that to Joc.) guest at our house day in and day out. Everything Jocelyn has she says Peter Pan gave her and everything she knows how to do she says Peter Pan taught her. I have to get her ready, again, every afternoon before Peter Pan picks her up for her "date", and she has to ask his opinion of everything that happens in our house. Someone please tell me this is a phase and that my adorable, baby of a little girl is normal and will someday, someday soon preferrably, get over her first "crush".