Long Distance Eating

I don't know WHAT it is with Bryce, but generally when we're about half done our meal, he will push himself back from the table and sitting about 6-10 inches from his plate, he'll continue eating. We push him back, he pushes back out. We take away his food, he cries he wants to eat. I don't get the fascination with eating no where near close to the table. Unless it's the fact that he enjoys watching mommy and daddy on their hands and knees later wiping up the floor. Or maybe it's because he likes eating food off the floor too? (He's been known to go back for "seconds" before one of us gets to clean it up.) This coming from a kid who usually will find half his meal on his bib and enjoy eating off that as much, if not more, than eating off his plate.