3.5 year old and romantic pretend play

[2much2luv]

My 3.5 year old dd is always playing pretend games. Lately she has been playing romantic games. I will see her kissing the wall, the pillow, whatever, pretty passionately. As passionate as a 3 year old gets :LOL; I mean leaning in long kissing. She had a short phase where she would try to kiss dh and I like this. She has seen dh and I kiss and a spattering of kissing scenes on movies. It just doesn't look or feel normal to me. Do other little ones play this way? Is it anything to be concerned about?
Thanks
Beth

[homemademomma]

i facilitate at a free school and a few girls there- one who is just barely 4- have recently become very interested in playing date and kissing each other and hiding in the tent to have "sex"(which is really just talking and giggling). its totally normal. i think they may have gotten interested in it b/c they were all very interested in my pregnancy, birth, and my baby. i think romance/sex play is normal and if we have a good, playful, matter-of-fact attitude about it, it can help them develop healthy sexualities.

[Evan&Anna's_Mom]

Our preschool actually had to initiate a "kissing is only for mommies, daddies and their kids" rule because there was so much play kissing going on. Apparently a group of girls were intent on kissing a couple of the boys -- my son included. For a while he would point to a girl in his class and say, "That's so-and-so, she's one of the girls that wants to kiss me all the time". Given that, I would assume this is normal.

[2much2luv]

:LOL

[mammastar]

When I was in first grade, I got in trouble for my involvement in play kissing at recess - the whole class was in the throws of 'girls vs boys' tag games every recess, and one day a group of girls, including me, decided the real kicker would be if, when we caught a boy, we held him down and kissed him! And...I was the one who brought my grandmother's old lipsticks to school - leaving red lip marks all over the poor boy we 'caught'. I still remember being hugely embarrassed when the lipsticks were confiscated and a 'no kissing' rule was put in place. It seemed like a good idea at the time...

3.5 years old does seem a bit young, but at least it's just 'romantic' for her, and not put in the 'girls vs boys' framework that kids often develop when they're a bit older. I think the make-believe on her own is ok, but reinforce that it is just for grown-ups to do together for real (since she's so gosh-darn passionate about it!).