2 going on 14...

so...yesterday we had a little incident, my kiddo and i. he *almost* choked on a piece of cheese toast he was mauing down on for lunch (and by almost, i mean, pretty much DID, but no worries - everyone's alright, i know cpr (not that it came to that) and i'm a 911 operator, so i stay pretty cool in dire circumstances, even though his eyes were a little bulgy for a second and there was serious potential for a scary choking disaster, we pulled through...)
aaaanyway...
the REASON he "almost" choked was because he was cramming that cheese toast into his mouth like there was a time limit or something, i mean, fer real, he wadded that sucker up and stuffed it on in, so - today, maybe i was the *eensiest* bit paranoid about mealtime. we had cottage cheese (very mushy, no problems there), shrededed carrots (very tiny, no problems there) and a quesadilla (seriously, gotta love cheese and bread, however - mildly chokable). so, for every bite kiddo took, i would say "ok, finish what you have? ok, ahhh." and get him to open his mouth to make sure he had, in fact, swallowed, before the next bite.
well.
this was, admittedly, a little tedious. but, ya know, choking sucks. so, as he was eating, it got to be where he would bite, chew, swallow, ahh, all without me saying anything. and then, after one of his swallows, he neglected the ahh before the next bite. and i was like, "hey. baby. ahhh." and that child looked at me, went "ahh" and ROLLED.HIS.EYES.
he'll be two in 3 months.
who IS this big big kid?