by Thomas Hobson
Child Life Director

It’s to believe, but More Than Medicine is getting ready to turn one year old.  On December 18, 2009, this blog launched quietly, and has been churning along ever since.  As I write this, it is our 177th post, and I know that we’ll at least have 178 before our birthday.  (For those of your keeping score at home, that averages out to almost 3.5 posts per week.)

Now, how will we be celebrating our first birthday?  I imagine it’ll be just like a normal “soon to be” one year old’s birthday.  We’ll invite family and friends over and cook out.  In the end, we’ll probably cover our faces in cake, which we’ll eat by hand.

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

• Pulling to stand up
• Plays social games (i.e. peek-a-boo)
• Drink from a cup
• Waves goodbye
• Say a few meaningful words
• Walk holding onto objects for support (or)
• Walk alone with an unsteady gait

Yep, that sounds about right for us…

Thank you to all of our readers for sticking with us throughout our first year.  We’ve had a lot of growth, and have found our voice.  We've won an award and added writers (which I'm pretty sure is why we won the award).  It's been a busy year, and I can’t wait to see what happens next. 

In honor of our first birthday, we thought we would share some of our favorite posts from the past year.

• Anxiety Alert
• Child Life and Burns
• A Child’s Eye View
• I Kid You Not: SAHM Perspective
• I Kid You Not: Tempering Tantrums
• The “Right” Words
• Siblings in the Critical Care Areas
• Becoming a Big Brother or Sister
• Reflections: Time in Critical Care
• A Parent’s Perspective on Grand Opening