Is she trying to tell me something?

LB received a Dora bowling set from her Gran this past Christmas. It has 6 pins and 2 balls, all foam. Each pin has a different character from the show (which we don't watch) on it. I've tried to teach her how to bowl, but no luck yet as she prefers to either throw the ball overhand or run the pins down with her body.

She's made up her own game, which entails each of us taking a pin and holding it like a bat and then using the pin to whack the ball around the apartment. 99% of the time we play, we use the same pins. She uses either the red Diego pin or the green Boots (a cute little monkey) pin. And she invariably hands me the one with this fellow on it: