Please tell me this is just a phase!

sunkist3d

My always happy DS is no longer that way!  His unhappiness mainly comes at eating times and then turns in to major melt downs from there.  DH and I cannot eat with him anymore.  He gets so upset because he can't have my fork, my knife, the scissors I'm cutting his food with, my cup or for example my whole baked potato.  He reaches and reaches and tries so hard to get them and he gets himself so upset he won't eat.  We do give him his own spoon and fork (little kids) but that is just not good enough.  I will even sometimes give him an empty plastic cup to play with.  Also, if I go to put more food on his tray when he is eating, he wants to utensils I'm using to prepare that.  So I have come to realization that we can't eat when he eats AND I have to have ALL of his food on his tray when he starts or it is melt down city.  PLEASE TELL ME THIS WILL PASS   It is so frustrating.