When do babies learn to give kisses?

[AliBingo]

DD 11 months has just recently started crawling/cruising up to me, grabbing my top (am sat on floor) and burying her open-mouthed face on my tummy or leg, then coming up beaming (leaving a snot/saliva print on my clothes!) and I am not sure if she is trying to kiss me?

At the weekend she leaned in while in my arms and did the same thing over my closed lips. I think she must be attempting a kiss?!

yes that a kiss without a doubt! I remember mine doing this at about that age. Soo cute and so messy

Oh definitely a kiss. Granted it has more in common with very moist CPR than kisses but lips are tricky beasts to master! Especially when you can't quite work out the difference between and kiss and a suck.

They do dry up a bit soon...the only problem then is the teeth kiss. Having had a lower tooth thrust sharply up my nostril I caution accepting kisses with an eye out for danger.
It's a very sweet age though.

lol yes it's cute and messy in equal measure. I feel all emotional now at the thought that DD is kissing me. She only does it to me, not DH. It definitely resembles moist CPR though - excellent metaphor! Next step, tooth kisses, eek!

my little man has jsut started kissing at 18months. He'll purse his lips and press them to you. Then he giggles.
larry the inflatable ladybird gets a proper smacker though with sound effects and everything.

oh well I can't have everything.

Dd was around 8 months old, and started doing the mwah noise with it around 12 months...very cute