Exczema

Yep it will be diagnosed just by looking. Excema is often genetic so you or DH might have it (or have had it as children). The dry scaley patches sound about right. Sometimes it's itchy or slightly red but Briona just has super-dry, sometimes patchy, skin. They say most kids grow out of the excema thing in their first year, certainly Briona's has been a lot better this year but still not totally gone.

Rhyley has dry scaley skin on his cheeks at the mo, as his sister gets ezcema I thought he maybe getting it as well, like you I am off to the drs this week for the other 2 so will ask. I have been putting cream on his cheeks and they have cleared alot but still scaly and a little red.
Brooke developed ezcema after having hormone spots and with teething it just didn't go away and got worse. Now she gets it all over her body , it comes and goes in how bad it is but is worse in summer - probably due to sunscreen, swimming pools and sweat etc...

It could just be dry skin, not necessarily eczema. If they are scratching it madly then it is likely eczema though.