Winslow's Metaphors

Today Winslow was looking at the mobile we still have up in our bedroom (Ben's childhood mobile) and mentioned that the little child who had been riding on the lion's back had fallen off.  He said: "Person fall off lion.  [pause] Person fall down like kite floating over ocean."  It was a proportionally long fall so the connection makes sense.  He has been doing this kind of metaphorical thinking for a long time, ever since he started forging connections between two experiences or actions but has just recently begun to draw them together in conventional linguistic form.