They’re here…

My parents arrived into Austin on Thursday night! Their plane got delayed about half an hour so that sucked since every other plane that week had been on time or early, but was better than getting delayed even more by the storm rocking the east coast right now. We decided to stop by Chuy’s for dinner and since Casey had gone straight home after work, he drove over and met us there. Chuy’s did not disappoint!

On Friday morning, Brady had a doctor’s appointment (well actually, nurse practitioner). She’d had a runny nose for 10 days (this was Monday) when I called the doctor’s office and spoke to the nurse trying to figure out if I should bring her in. Based on her symptoms, the nurse said it sounded like allergies and suggested some Benadryl (in addition to all the other things the on-call nurse had suggested a couple of weeks ago) and to call back in a couple days if her runny nose hadn’t come away to see if she had a sinus or ear infection. It ended up being an ear infection, even though the nurse practitioner didn’t say it like that. She said one of her ears was red and the other one had fluid behind it. She told me she would chart it and would call in a prescription for amoxicillin but we could just wait it out and didn’t have to fill it if we didn’t want to. What?! Why would I not want to call in a prescription for my baby when she has an ear infection? Ear infections aren’t contagious and are usually caused by bacteria or a virus, so we’re thinking the runny nose was one thing and the ear infection was a recent development because her fussiness level has definitely increased from Thursday when I called, till today. Each day it’s gotten a little worse. I heard that it takes about 48 hours for relief, so I’m hoping tomorrow she’ll feel better. So for now, we’re just following the amoxicillin and Tylenol plan and she’ll go for a follow up at her 12 month appointment (on the 29th).

We left straight from the pediatrician’s for San Marcos to go to the outlet mall. We didn’t really eat breakfast so we went to the only eatery I could find (apparently they were all on the other side of the street – the mall is so big it’s on two sides of the street) – Johnny Rockets. Now I don’t know if the ones in California were just better or it’s always been the same, but it was pretty disappointing. But it did satiate. Now unfortunately I forgot diapers. So we had to track down a Target, buy diapers, and then head back to the mall before we could do any shopping. Now this was the second (and technically third) time I had been to the outlets and I haven’t seen even a portion of the stores. The first time I was there it was solely furniture stores (Crate & Barrel, Pottery Barn, Restoration Hardware) and this time it was all baby stuff (Gymboree, Carter’s, Baby Gap, and Osh Kosh). We picked up some cute stuff for Brady’s birthday and headed back home. It was a pretty low key night with Brady not feeling well, so I made jambalaya for dinner and we watched Thursday’s Survivor.

Today Casey and Dad went to Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts and brought breakfast back. Then they headed to see Avatar with James and Lana while Mom, Brady, and I stayed here and then went to the Gap. It was a bad idea on my part to try and make returns in store so close to Christmas, but I had procrastinated (what else is new) and was closing in on the 30 day mark. I ended up not finding anything I really wanted (Brady was fussy and screamed the entire time mom was holding her and I was trying on stuff) but at least I got a refund and can hopefully find something somewhere else. We met up with everyone else at Plucker’s for a late lunch and then have just relaxed at home since then. I think Brady’s feeling a little better tonight because she’s slept in her bed (thus far) for 3 hours versus the 45 minutes last night. Here’s hoping that she feels better – poor girl!