Taylor is scared of the Beach Ball

So, I was so excited to get a ball for Taylor to play with, but he hates this one! I don't know why, but we tried several times to initiate playtime with this ball and he is scared and upset everytime we brought it out. We don't know why this is, but since we had several failed attempts to play with it, we decided to just deflate the ball. Maybe we will bring it out again for him to play with when he is older. Sigh...