by Thomas Hobson
Child Life Director

On December 18, 2011, we celebrated the blog’s second birthday. It’s hard to believe, but More Than Medicine is has turned two years old.  On December 18, 2009, this blog launched quietly, and has been churning along ever since.  As I write this, it is our 324th post and we’re still going strong. If there’s a topic you’d like to see us cover over the next year, leave us a comment and we’ll work it in.

Now, how will we be celebrating our second (and belated) birthday?  I imagine it’ll be just like a normal two-year-old’s birthday.  We’ll invite family and friends over and cook out.  In the end, we’ll probably get tired and need to take a nap or else have a meltdown.

Oh, and if we were actually turning two, our developmental milestones would look like this:

• Climbing up and down stairs
• Play alongside our friends (parallel play)
• Play with more complex toys
• Have emotional attachment to specific objects or toys
• Speak with two phrases
• Name several body parts
• About half of our speech is understandable

Yep, that sounds about right for us…

Thank you to all of our readers for sticking with us throughout our two years.  We've had a lot of growth, and really hit our stride. We’re looking forward to everything that this next year will bring for More Than Medicine.