Dinner Tears

So Graham likes to eat and he likes to eat a lot…my best friend, Beki, watched him eat at dinner Saturday night and referred to him as eating like a ‘truck driver’. I think she’s pretty right on. The problem is not that he eats a lot, but that he tends to eat way to fast. He shoves food in his mouth as soon as it hits his plate. Whatever is on his plate goes immediately in the mouth…there is not spacing out bites. He will put too much in his mouth and might start crying because he can’t chew it all. If we take the food away though, he will start crying because he thinks he won’t get anymore. I don’t know where this little mind set came from since he has never done without food. It reminds me of orphans in movies who eat so fast because they don’t know where their next meal is coming from. I am sure it’s a phase, but hopefully it will end soon! Last night dinner was full of a lot of tears. He had a long day traveling too though without a nap, so maybe that was part of the melt down too.