The Mystery Spots

So just as we were settling into our new helmet routine, guess what happens? We have to keep it off for seven days.
On Tuesday, Zander was looking especially hot in his helmet and I was taking it off every few hours to dry his hair and let him cool down for a few minutes. By the end of the day I noticed that he had developed a severe heat rash so I ditched the helmet for the night thinking I would discuss it with his doctor the next day. By the next morning, the bright redness all over his head had died down, but he had these crazy red spots all over and some of them were starting to blister. The helmet doctor said we needed to visit the pediatrician because although he had seen many heat rashes, this one was especially peculiar. I began to be concerned that he had chicken pox.
We went and saw his pediatrician today and it is definitely not chicken pox, but Impetigo. Basically, the helmet gave him a wicked heat rash which then got infected by lingering bacteria and created this polka dot party all over his head. Poor kid. This might end up being harder than we thought. We are going to concentrate for now on taking his meds and getting him over this thing and then in a week we will try and tackle this whole helmet thing all over again. Sigh...
On a better note, we did get our family pictures back this week and besides the ones I inserted on the side bar to your right, here are a few of my favorites:
My little guy Zander





My "bigger" little guy Ashton









One of the family photos: (I love Ashton's look here, it says it all..and the yellow ball was the only thing keeping Zander from completely losing it in the studio)

A few candid shots with Mom and Dad:


Apparently I have been telling a few too many lies because it seems my nose has grown a foot since I last checked. Is this another one of those things that they don't tell you "grows" when you are pregnant? Or perhaps I am just getting older...you know they do say that noses never stop growing.

The cell phone also kept Zander occupied during the shoot and made its debut in this photo here.




And this is my favorite one of all. As a relatively new mom of a second child, I couldn't imagine being able to love my second as much as I loved Ashton. Of course, that flew out the window once little Zander entered our family, but I got to tell you...nothing beats the feeling I get when I see the love blossoming between my two little boys and in this case, a picture is really worth a thousand words: