Not Without Bumps

I feel it necessary to clarify my "Back to School 2010" post, as it was in reality not without bumps and in need of some clarification. The transition this school year did go extremely well as I wrote, but we were struggling with something else. It started Thursday, September 2 and is just clearing up now.
Brighton broke out into unexplainable hives - no other symptoms, just really nasty hives. The doctor told us he wasn't contagious, and we wanted to believe him, but he looked just awful. So just to be extra cautious, we kept him home. At the 12 day mark the doctor determined blood work was in order. The picture below is from that day. Jon stayed home from work to take him to the lab where they learned that Bright is double-jointed in his elbows making the blood draw a nightmare in itself (one lab gave up and sent them to another), but they both survived.After bottles of Benadryl, hydrocortisone cream, and then a steroid prescription, it appears that whatever was bugging Bright needed to simply run its course. Weeks of giving this little guy medicine was probably just as bad as the unexplainable hives for two and a half weeks. We have lots of theories on what caused it, but more importantly we are just so thankful that Bright's bumps are behind of us, and we're hoping they stay that way.