Impetigo or Acne?

So i have these little tiny, almost cute dots around the corners of my mouth.  They are not actually cute, but I don't want to gross you out and say that I have little pimples around my mouth, but in fact, that is what they are. 

Or are they?  You see, last week my beautiful eldest son developed a spotty face rash himself.  On his smooth, creamy skin it was clearly a rash.  For a while i thought it was our old friend, eczema, coming to rear his itchy, ugly head.  So I went back to my hypervigilent ways of slathering my son in a thick shiny layer of vaseline day and night.  but the rash didn't go away - it just moved up his face and onto his thumb.  So, at the encouragement of GoGo and for fear that sweet face would still have spots at Christmas, I took him to the doctor. 

Diagnosis: impetigo.  Eeew.  Isn't that something that dirty kids get?  oh wait, that's right, i have a dirty kid.  he crawls on the floor of the church and parking lots and then sucks his thumb.  of course he has impetigo. 

I have spent this last week obsessed with the spread of impetigo and how to stop it.  The slightest bump or skin irritation on Ford gets immediately covered in Bactroban.  I saw spots on his cheek while we were at Target and I got nervous.  moments later i noticed matching spots on the opposite cheek.  I then began to think about leaving immediately to get home to our tube of salve.  I was all ready to call CPS on myself for allowing my baby to get this yucky rash, when michael pointed out that he had been kissing Ford with his itchy beard.  phew. 

But then what about me?  i have a problem.  I don't know my diagnosis, you see I ran out of my night cream at the same time as the impetigo was healing in our home.  Knowing I couldn't get an order from Avon in time, i went ahead and bought some cheap night cream at Target - we go there a lot.  So...are the strange little dots around my mouth impetigo or acne related to changing night creams?  any good scientist knows, there are too many variables at work here.  So, i have been putting bactroban on my skin at night before applying the night cream, because I just cannot sleep without some night cream.  it is like some people's white noise and other's earplugs.  i gotta have the night cream.  and each morning i wake up with a few new little spots.

and now, as the car talk dudes say, you have just wasted a perfectly good few minutes reading this post.  hope your day gets better than this.