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He eats 2 bites, throws 5 bites, eats 1 bite, throws 10 more. It makes me SO confused - He throws the food he likes along with the things he doesn't!

Aww that's cute! LO eats like gangbusters for the first few minutes, then she randomly gets pissed at the food and throws it to the dog. We then ignore her and take all the food away. Then we reintroduce everything back on her plate slowly and she proceeds to eat everything excruciatingly slowly.

@autumnlove: haha! I guess she's stunned that you dare put anything other than fries, pizza, or mac and cheese in front of her. hehe.

DS expects food immediately if we put him in his high chair and will "yell" at me if I don't feed him fast enough. Once he starts to feel full, he'll start taking food out of his mouth, play with it for a bit, then put it back in his mouth to eat. Once he's full/done eating, he'll take the food out of his mouth and throw it. Yuck.

Eats...throws....eats....throws....stabs violently with fork....pokes with fingers.....eats off my plate.....

She picks up a piece of food, inspects it, then drops it on the floor. Picks up another bit of food and throws it onto the floor. Then she uses her arm to sweep the remaining food onto the floor in one go. Any bits that are remaining, she sweeps at furiously and shouts until the table is clear. Then she uses her feet to push her high chair away from the table. Ugh.

T climbs into his booster seat by himself, D cries until I lift him into his. Strap them both in. They then proceed to roll their sippy cups across the table to each other and cry when it falls off the table or I take them away because they're playing with them. Look at the food and then say NO. Throw their forks. More rolling of the sippy cups. D puts his feet up on the table. I say no feet and take them down. He puts them back up. This goes on for several minutes. A new (and gross) development is for D to put his feet in his mouth and watch me or DH to see what we'll do. T will yell, signaling a game to D. Then they yell back and forth for a while, seeing who can screech/yell the loudest, highest. Maybe a couple bites of food have been eaten. The dog walks by ... D cries because he dropped food (on purpose) on the ground and the dog ate it. 20 minutes of all of this in some rotation and I ask them, are you done? NO! Do you want more? NO! A couple more bites get eaten between the two of them and then they finally say "all done" and signal by patting their bellies.

Then I drink wine.

The most difficult part is actually getting my son to the table. Once he's seated, he eats quite neatly. Sometimes, though, he elbows his water cup and spills all over the table.

@Cherrybee: lol, I had to laugh, we have had many tea times like that.

She eats a bit, leaves the rest unless she can eat it off our plates (because obviously it tastes so much better from a grown up's plate) , asks for mango or berries to devour then tips all her water over her tray, splashes her hands furiously in it so it goes everywhere then demands we sing songs.

She jumps into her seat before I've even got food on the plate, then shovels it into her mouth like we've never fed her before.

@yellowbird: It's so hard some nights I just want to be like "FINE EAT THE POPTART" but I resist Last night was a rough dinner, her insistence to use a real plate but still wanting to throw it on the floor gives me a headache.

@Alivoo01: yup. Same.

4YO stares at food oftentimes, doesn't take first bite until we're nearly done eating. slowwwwww eater. the 21 month old can't get the food fast enough to her, she gobbles it down hungrily. they're both so different from each other.

I don't think LO is exactly a toddler yet but she just shoves all the food in her mouth, gags, takes some out. Throws some. Sees her tray is empty, screams. Swipes it all off her tray. I put it back. Shove it all in mouth like I starve her all day. Yells because tray is empty. I've noticed that she's started picking out the items she likes better than others &yells when those items are gone. (She's 11.5 months).

I am strangely comforted by how many toddlers throw their food. My guys like doing this the second they are full. When does the throwing STOP?