Jaimie's Imaginary Possession

We read about children having imaginary friends. Jaimie has imaginary possessions instead.

My mom, who fetches Jaimie from school everyday, told me that she would always want to pick imaginary strawberries, cherries and even grass (!) and stuff them into her pocket. Today at Fidgets, we witnessed how Jaimie held her imaginary possessions dearly.

There was a tall structure at the back of Fidgets for older children. Jaimie climbed up the structure with her fist clenched. We knew she was holding on to something in her imagination again. Then came a group of older and rougher children who were chasing one another and rushed through the obstacles in the structure to get to the top of the super slide. Jaimie, who was at the second storey of the structure admiring the view from the top, was being pushed and shoved. She lost her balance and sat on the floor. When she stood up and cry, she was still clenching her fists. We were watching from the ground and Clement offered to help to "take care" of whatever she was holding and encouraged her to go over the obstacles and come down from the slides. Clement asked Jaimie as she was passing him the "things" through the net what they were. To our surprise, she was holding on to "insects", "apples", "oranges", "bananas"...

Clement returned Jaimie her "gar-gar" (insects) after she came back down. Jaimie held on to her invisible gar-gar again until we left Fidgets for lunch.

"Jaimie, let 'gar-gar' go."
"Where to put 'gar-gar'?"
"Errr.. just put it on the floor. It will crawl away."

And Jaimie squat down to release the poor insect which she had been holding on for about half an hour or more.

Hmm... I hope this imaginary stuff is not a sign of Jaimie's possessiveness!