this picture is all the more remarkable if you take a gander at the similarly composed shot on day 17.

but what’s most important about this picture can’t be discerned from the image alone. kris is sick. and while odin is doing fantastically, guarding against sickness is still a very high priority.

micropreemie parents deal with how to deal with sickness differently. some people pull out the face masks as the slightest hint of the cold or flu. as long as we’re not drooling or sneezing or prone to uncontrollable coughing on odin, we don’t tend to use face masks. but we are absolutely obsessive about using something like purell whenever we touch him if we’ve touched our eyes, nose or mouth so we reduce the risk of transferring any infectious agents.

maybe we’ve just been lucky ( more probably it’s because of the antibodies he’s getting while nursing ), but kris has had two small colds since he came home and odin hasn’t shown any signs of getting sick. hopefully we’ll get lucky once again.

he was unusually unhappy this evening. the beginnings of the same bug or just a coincidence? i guess we’ll know soon enough.