Mother Mary and Baby Jesus

During the Christmas season, Rebekah and her cousin Kylie spent the majority of their time pretending to be Mary (the mother of Jesus). Occasionally one of them would agree to play Joseph, but generally there were two Mary's. A baby doll at Grandma and Grandpa's house served as baby Jesus, and the girls would often mischievously pull back the blanket around baby Jesus to reveal his shirt that said "feed me!"
Well, it's March now, and Rebekah is STILL playing Mary (there are a lot of not-so-great things that she could be pretending, so I'm not complaining). She tries to get Daniel to play Joseph, but he is less than impressed, and wants nothing to do with a blanket draped around his head. Can't say as I blame him!

The other day Rebekah came to me very disappointed because Daniel wouldn't play Mary and Joseph with her. I consoled her by telling her that Daniel is still little and doesn't quite understand how to pretend yet, but that by Christmas he would probably be able to play Joseph. She was excited about that prospect, but then good 'ole Mom made the mistake of continuing with, "And by then the baby will be here, and maybe you and Daniel can pretend that the baby is baby Jesus."Rebekah was thrilled with the idea of getting BOTH of her siblings in on the act! She started excitedly making plans as she often does, and soon I heard, "And I'm going to name the baby, "Baby Jesus." I could tell that she didn't mean just for pretend. She was planning to name our coming little one "Jesus!" I thought it best not to make a big deal out of it at this point, so I simply said, "What if it's a girl?" I expected her to say "Jesus" or "Hannah," since Hannah is her favorite name, and she currently has two baby dolls named Hannah. (Which, incidentally, is rather ironic because if we hadn't named Rebekah "Rebekah," we would have named her "Hannah.") Anyway, in response to my question, she said, "I can't think of a girl's name right now." I'm pretty sure she said that because my question threw her for a loop, and she wanted to name the baby "Jesus" regardless of gender, but knew that girls aren't named Jesus!

So since that day, almost every time Rebekah talks about the baby, she calls him/her "Jesus." Hmmm....how do I get myself out of this one?! I'm hoping that time will make her forget, but I'm not so sure. That girl has the memory of an elephant!