Surprise!

When I was little, my father spent some time working in Paris. When he'd come home, he'd always bring us back gifts. "I've got a surprise for you," he'd say. As infants, we learn words through use and context. Thus, in my head, I equated the word "surprise" with a physical gift. 

One day I asked him what a Jack-in-the-Box was. He told me it was a "little man who jumps out of a box and gives everyone a surprise". 

So I found a box, dragged it into the living room, climbed inside jumped out again to give everyone a surprise.

No one was very surprised in the traditional sense. But I had filled the box with my teddy bears, and I ran around giving one to everyone in the room - what a nice "surprise"!