Folliculitis?

Trip keeps getting these welts on his arms, chest, and back.  The doctor on base first tried to tell me they were eczema (he saw them as they were healing and they were crusty). Upon my insistence that I knew what eczema looked like and this was not it, he claimed it was folliculitis.  Since when does folliculitis start out like a spider bite??

These welts first started showing up on him when we went to Greenville and he still has 5 scars from where the old spots were.  This morning I found a new one...I am not pleased.

It's not easy to take a picture of a squirmy baby's arm!  I wish i could have gotten a better shot so you could see the bumps all over the welt.  Tomorrow it will have a head on it (not like a pimple...more like a fire ant bite) and a few days later it will begin to get crusty.  I don't know what's causing these and it's beginning to drive me up a wall!  Any ideas oh wise internets?

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On a side note, if you had a choice of living on a military base in England or one in Japan, which would you choose?  Yup!  It looks like those are the possibilities we have right now.

Bullet Post, sorry

• Thank you all so much for your wonderful comments on my last two posts!


• I'm 32 today.  It seems unreal.  This is the first birthday I've not had a great build up for.  It's almost just another day.  I don't feel 32...if there is such a feeling.  I'm very happy to be where I am today. :-)


• Things with Tim are much better.  He finally de-stressed for a week which made him realize how stressed he had been.  We both realized that week how we hadn't fought even once...BREAKTHROUGH!  Since then he's been working more on not bringing work home and I've been working on not letting my stress affect us.


• Jack is on the verge of crawling; he can move backwards for a few "steps".  He gets so excited when he moves a little and begins laughing so hard he falls down.  Hilarious!  He's not real big on solid foods.  He'll eat those little puffs occasionally and loves to gum biter biscuits. I'd like to work towards real table food, but he seems to choke very easily and doesn't chew too much.  He doesn't love to take naps, but once he's down he takes long ones!  His hair still stands straight up and I love it that way!  He still looks just like his Daddy.  He's very social and loves to smile at people for attention.


• Trip was late on rolling, but now there's no stopping him!  He's also noticed that his brother does this neat trick of getting up on his hands and knees, so he started that yesterday (competitive already?).  He often rolls to where Jack is to take his toys.  He still dislikes being on his belly, but seems to see that it has it's advantages.  He loves food!  I plan on introducing him to real table food the next time we go out to eat (the babies are in bed when we eat dinner and I don't eat real meals during the day).  Trip loves his naps, but they're not as long.  When he's really sleepy and you lay him in his crib he smiles at you; it's so sweet!  he doesn't nap as long as his brother, but it's all he needs.  Trip looks more and more like my side of the family every day.  He does have his Daddy's temper (Daddy got his under control years ago, though).  He's fairly quick to throw a tantrum or scream when he doesn't get his way (no really...he literally screamed at me one day when I took a toy from him to put him in his carseat).  I recognized his temper very early on, so this is no surprise.  (Any advice on dealing with bad tempers is accepted!)  He studies his environment and the people in it.


• Traveling with two babies and two dogs across two states by yourself is something I would advise no one to do.  At least the two hours of screaming kept me awake for the last leg of my trip!


• We've begun talking about the possibility of a future addition to our family.  We're not sure if it's something we could really afford right now.  We'd definitely want to hold off on trying until we begin potty training the boys.  Tim has told me that if I decide I'd like to try to have another baby, then he'd be on board.  He loves the boys so much and couldn't imagine saying no to bringing another one into the world.  I DO NOT want to stress about getting pregnant again.  I really don't want to have another set of twins either.


• I feel like there's something that I'm supposed to be doing, that's not getting done.  What it is, I have no clue.  Hmmmmmm