I’ve seen this behavior in the small children I’ve been around. Usually, I was handed some of the child’s toys, presumably to play with. And there was a great scene in Monsters, Inc. when Boo (a little older than your child) was handing toys to Sully.
Not an odd one. That is usually a babies first joke. When they find out they can snatch it back before you take it, it’s the funiest thing in the world.
All babies read the same book.
My youngest (14-mo.) nephew does this all the time; that’s how his father and I amused him on a recent plane ride. He also enjoyed taking my glasses off, trying them on, then offering them back for me to try them on.
His newest game is “uh-oh!”, where he picks something up, slyly looks at the nearest adult, deliberately dropps it, says “uh-oh!” – and waits for you to pick it up for him. To be dropped again to delighted squeals. He could go on for hours doing that.
Of course, his older brother (4-yrs.) accompanies the entire proceedings with running commentary: “Natey gave me Thomas! Natey is wearing your glasses! Natey wants you to wear the glasses! Natey dropped the coaster! Natey wants you to pick up the coaster!”
Between the two of them, it’s a much more enjoyable conversation than with any other relative I’ve got, really.
We say “ta” and hold our hand out if we want her to give us something, and then always “thank you” when she hands it over.
She’s a lot better at it now than she used to be. To start with, when she had minimal coordination, she just wave her arm at you and let go so the toy went flying in any old direction. Now she carefully places it into your hand.
She’s quite useful. She takes great delight in seeing the dog go and fetch his favourite toy when we throw it for him. But he tends to bring it back and drop it out of arms reach (we sit on the floor doing this.) So we point to it and say “ta”. The little girl then goes and picks it up and brings it back to us. and we get to throw it and watch the dog chase it again.
This is very common at 12-18 months, it’s very very cute, and it’s fleeting. My daughter is now 2 1/2, and she’s much more likely to say “MINE!”
Funny you shoud say that, I wasn’t going to bring in the pics, but take a look at her with her DOC band on (fourth picture in the top row (on my monitor))
What a cutie! We call WhyBaby our little monkey all the time. Then I get indignant on her behalf and point out she’s a great ape, not a monkey!
(Seriously, how can creationists look at this and NOT think we’re related somehow?)
both my kids went through this stage. It is a ton of fun. Specially the feeding part. They look so cute fighting you for a bit of pasta only to then want to give it to you. It is a bit less fun when they bring the whole basket of legos to you, but hey.
It’s also tiring (though sweet) when they just won’t stop with the feeding thing. There have been times when I’ve been like, “But, sweetie, thank you so much, but I don’t want another goldfish cracker…”
As an incidental note, it’s somewhat less cute when your cat presents you with various pigeons, with “alive” values ranging from 0 to 100%.