derek has had some awesome news this week! he was awarded a 10,000 dollar grant for the "Young Investigator of the Year". this was pretty amazing as they APA only chose 4 proposals out of 108 submissions. i'm very proud of him. the money will be used to complete a research project idea that he thought of himself - studying the effects of tobacco exposure related to kids hospitalized with pneumonia.

and if that wasn't enough, the same day he had an abstract (short explanation of a different research project) accepted to be presented at the national Pediatric Academic Society meeting in Vancouver this spring. he'll give a presentation to probably a few hundred people, so also very cool and distinguished.

i'm glad one of us is making our way in our careers! mine is kind of on hold as i focus on being mommy, but i have my plans too, don't you worry.