Emojis in iPad Emoji Keyboard Sometimes Disappear. Only a blank gray box is displayed.

iPad Mini 2 Retina
iOS 8.1.2
This seems to only affect iMessage.
The Emoji Keyboard is enabled. (Not an app. The default Emoji Keyboard that comes with iPad)
I can touch the smiley face between the 123 & mic symbol. Usually this works fine, but sometimes I just get a gray box, no emojis display. I cycle through all the groupings on the bottom, all show a blank gray box, no emojis. If I double tap the Recently Used, they often come back, but not the others. Maybe recently used are stored locally, not loaded from a server? This problem usually persists for hours or a day, then resolves on its own. I don't know why this happens, or how it fixes itself. Exiting iMessage and reopening has no effect. Deleting conversations has no effect. This has happened ever since I first got this iPad Mini. There has already been 2 iOS updates since purchase, problem still happens. It happened last night and continued until a few minutes ago. Now it's normal again. No idea why.
Now for the really weird part: Sometimes even when I can't see any emojis on the keyboard, if I touch the screen randomly, an emoji will appear in my text message. As if the emojis are there, functioning, but they are not displayed on the keyboard, so I have no idea what I'm touching.  ???
Has anyone else experienced this?  Anyone know how to fix this permanently?

Have your tried a reset of your iPad to see if that corrects the problem? Press and hold both the Home button and the Sleep/Wake button continuously until the Apple logo appears. Then release the button and let the device restart. You will not lose data doing this. It's like a computer reboot.

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