This Kid...

Ate 1/2 of a breakfast sausage, along with a stage 3 oatmeal and fruit jar for breakfast;

Ate 3/4 of a cut up hotdog for lunch that she fed to herself, using a fork;

Stuck her hand right into cake frosting;

Didn't throw up once today.

And the parents rejoiced.

[I know she's had these little leaps before and they haven't stuck, but it is so exciting for us, regardless. We do think one of these days (maybe today!) it will start to stick and the more days she is willing to attempt it, the better. You know the old saying, "Practice makes for reduced oral sensitivities." Wait, maybe that isn't the old saying, but it does have a nice ring to it, doesn't it?]

Edited to add:

This morning she ate a yogurt (as per her usual) with an entire crustless piece of wheat bread cut into squares.

For lunch she ate an entire cut up turkey dog, plus roughly 3.5 ounces of REAL chopped up green beans (as in, NOT PUREED) with ketchup.

Holy freaking crap. This is blowing my mind.