The Coppit Family Daily News

While we were in Oregon for Steven’s wedding, Christopher spent half the time in the hospital. It started during the flight there. We noticed that he was particularly grumpy in Portland, but figured he was just tired of traveling.

But that night, Dorothy woke me up worried about how hot he was. Sure enough, he was burning up. We took his temperature at over 103 degrees. So we woke up my mom to take us to the hospital.

That night the doctors were able to narrow down the cause of the fever to a urinary tract infection. They gave him antibiotics and admitted him to the pediatric ward. After about a day he was stabilized, but they kept him for two more days to be sure that the infection didn’t come back.

One funny thing: the crib. I guess they don’t want kids to escape:

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Since they only had one pull-out chair, Dorothy slept in the cage with the boy.

Well, just about anyone who reads this blog regularly probably attended Steven and Tammy’s wedding, but I thought I would write a short note anyway.

They were married last Saturday in Eugene, Oregon. Dorothy, Christopher, and I flew up for about a week. Unfortunately, that was about all the time I could afford, since classes were starting. It was the first time in a long time that my Dad and his two sons were in the same location.

The day before the rehearsal we went crawfishing, where my Dad’s Louisiana background helped us with the cooking part. Steven threw a big crawfish boil, and a bunch of his friends and Tammy’s family joined us.

I had come up a day early from Coos Bay for the crawfishing, so my Dad and Brenda finally met Christopher the next day at the rehearsal dinner.

After the rehearsal dinner, Steven threw a big poker night. I think we had about 14 people playing at two tables.

The wedding and reception were very nice. Since I was in the wedding, the only pictures I got were the ones I was able to sneak when no one was looking. I’m hoping other attendees will upload some more pictures.

Unfortunately, Steven’s best man and reception DJ had to go to the hospital due to a flare-up of a pancreas problem. While we were sleeping after the reception, poor Steven and Tammy spent the night in the emergency room. The next morning Dorothy and I met my mom and Larry, Emo and Odishi for brunch at the hotel. Steven and Tammy eventually came down and joined us.

The new couple is in Hawaii now. I hear that Steven says it’s the best vacation he’s ever been on.

Ever since Friday, Christopher has been sleeping 7-9 hours at night. Yay!

Last weekend Dorothy and I drove to C’Ville to visit old friends and celebrate our anniversary.

For our anniversary, Dorothy suggested that we stay at the Doubletree, the place where we had our reception and stayed after the wedding. She suggested that we go visit all our old haunts… our old apartment, Champion Tutoring (where we met), etc. I also had a personal quest to visit all the good restaurants that I missed being in Williamsburg.

On Friday we had lunch with Kristin + Norm + the Beekwilder boys, Kim + Glenn + Sophia, and David + Rebecca + the Engler girls. Needless to say, there were a lot of baby carriers and accouterments. We went to C’Ville Coffee, probably the best kid-friendly place to get lunch in Charlottesville. (It wasn’t on my list of restaurants, but not a bad place to eat.)

Afterwards we stopped by the computer science department, where I saw my old advisor Kevin Sullivan and some other folks. We briefly turned their lounge into a nursery. We walked with Kim and Sophia, and Kristin and her boys to the corner for some frozen yogurt. On the way, we pushed our procession of baby carriers past the UVa chapel, where we were married.

For dinner we all met up at the Engler’s house for an impromptu cookout.

At the hotel, it seemed like there was some sort of “Tiny Miss” beauty pageant going on… Lots of vanity plates on minivans in the parking lot.

The next morning I dashed out to the new Bodo’s Bagels on the corner for breakfast. 10 years in the making, it was a running joke that we had to graduate from grad school before it opened. After we packed up, Dorothy and I met up with Dorothy’s dad and brother Daniel for coffee.

For lunch, we met our friend Anh at Thai 99. That’s the second restaurant on my list… I told them that they should open a restaurant in Williamsburg, so that I could fulfill my regular Thai cravings.

After lunch Anh took us to a new gelato place on the Downtown Mall. It was yummy. Afterwards, we said bye to Anh and drove over to Champion Tutoring, but our old boss Audrey wasn’t there since it was Saturday. We also stopped by our old apartment, but it seemed like either our standards improved, or the neighborhood went downhill–probably a little of both.

Finally, in the afternoon we drove out to Crozet to Glenn and Kim’s new house. There we met up with Nuts, Rashmi, and Mallige. After hanging out for a while, we all went to Crozet Pizza for dinner.

Photos of the trip:

More proof that the developer of autostitch knows what he’s doing… Compare the following two photos from two merged images:

Usually panorama programs are not smart enough to understand that part of an image changed between two photos that are being merged. As a result, you get “ghosts” at the seams where the software blends the two images. Here’s the merged seam that autostitch created:

Click on the image to see a larger version. Notice how Glenn’s head isn’t blended. Rather, the software chose one image to override the other. Kudos to the author. I really hope he gets someone to license his algorithms, putting some polish on the software.

Christopher is around 14 pounds now. So he’s added almost 50% of his original weight in 6 weeks! He’s also sleeping better now at night, so that Dorothy only needs to wake up once. During the day he also has about 1 hour in the afternoon where he coos and smiles a lot. The photo in the week 6 album was one of those times.

Hopefully by Steven’s wedding later this month he’ll be even more interactive.

Last weekend we drove up to Germantown, MD to visit Nuts and Rashmi (and their new baby Mallige). They are friends of ours from graduate school. Both are high-level software developers as small companies in the DC area. Last December Mallige (”mull-i-gay”) was born, and they are having a lot of fun with her.

Christopher spent most of his time sleeping, as usual. That said, I did get a movie and picture of him, which I have put into the Week 6 album:

Here are the week 6 pictures: