When you smile at your child, does he or she smile back at you?

If we are playing with our daughter she smiles and laughes and interacts very well but when we went to her 18month check up there was a question asking When you smile at your child, does he or she smile back at you? If we are just sitting there doing nothing and I out of nowhere smile at her she doesn't smile back at just me smiling but if we are playing hide and seek or peek a boo or other interactive games she smiles but she will never just smile back at me if it's just her sitting there and I smile at her out of nowhere. Is this normal behavior?