10/28/2003 Hey there! I am Jamie Burnside. My wife Kazuko and I live in Monticello, Minnesota. I am an elementary school teacher in Minnesota. My wife and I have four hedgehogs, two hamsters, and two aquariums. We like our pets. We will have a son soon. We are going to name him "Kentaro." Kentaro will be born between the 12th and the 19th of November. We can hardly wait! Come back soon for more entries! Jamie

Well, Halloween is over. We had about fifteen kids come over to our house for Trick-or-Treating. The kids who did come were really lucky, because each one got a pretty big handful of candy. The biggest surprise of the evening was that one of our visitors was one of my first-graders from school. He seemed happy to see me, so I felt good about that. I wasn't expecting to see any of my students from school since I live about eighteen miles away from my work. I woke up this morning with ...

Hey there! Kazuko and I just got back from the movies and from grocery shopping. When we got back home, the temperature on our thermometer said 10 degrees (-12C.) It is cold outside!! The movie that we saw this evening was "The Matrix: Revolutions." I enjoyed the movie. It was a lot better than I had been expecting according to the reviews in this morning's paper. (I will have to check Roger Ebert's website to see what he had to say. He is the movie critic with whom I am most apt to ...

Hello there! I hope that all of you are having a happy day. It has been snowing on-and-off here in Monticello, MN. The streets and sidewalks are basically clear, but there is a light covering of snow on the grass. It is beginning to look like winter. The sad news is that it looks like our oldest hedgehog, Chippy doesn't have a lot of time left. He has lost a lot of weight and he is very sluggish. The poor guy is almost at the end of his life-expectancy. He has been a really good pet....

Today is Tuesday. It is like a Monday because I spent all day Monday having meetings about school. So I come to work with a whole list of things that I need to get done. I find that downtimes during meetings are really good times to write to-do lists. So naturally the day after a meeting is an especially busy day at work. I want to get a lot of things done before the baby comes next week too. Who knows how much my life is going to change after that? So, did you all watch "Joe Millio...

Hi all! I suppose that I should start with the biggest news of the day. Kazuko just scheduled her cesarian section. Our baby will be coming out in the morning on Wednesday, November 12. I am sure that the days leading up to that date will be long, especially for Kazuko because she is awfully excited! (Me too of course!) I am home from work now. Today was full of meetings. In the morning we talked about reading, writing, and science in our school district. In the afternoon, I had a ...

It is Friday again. I am surprised at how quickly this week passed. Now it is lunchtime, and I only have half-a-day left. Amazing! Kazuko and I have some plans for the weekend. Tomorrow we will be in Roseville for our friend Julie's baby shower. Her baby will be coming in January (maybe December...) That means that her baby will be pretty close in age to our baby. Maybe they'll have something in common when they are able to talk. Since we'll be in the Twin Cities area on Saturday, w...

Hey there! Kazuko and I took a trip into The Twin Cities today. Per usual, we stopped at the Krispy Kreme on the way home. I had been looking forward to getting a cinnamon-covered apple jam-filled doughnut. Sadly, that particular doughnut wasn't in stock today. I hope that the apple cinnamon doughnut isn't just a seasonal thing. If it is, I will have to find an alternate favorite doughnut. So I ended up getting three originals. I ate one of them in the store. I will probably have th...

Happy Sunday Everybody! Kazuko and I had a busy day today. Our biggest accomplishment was putting up our Christmas lights. These are some lights that we put on a really tall pine tree in our yard. I wasn't able to reach the very top of the tree, so there aren't any lights up there. Eventually I think that I will have to get a ladder to finish the job. These are some icicle-type lights that I hung from the gutter. I think that these turned out really well. ****************...

Hi there friends! The biggest news is that the baby will be coming tomorrow! How exciting! The time really flies by between the time we found out about it and the time that he arrives. It has been really hard to concentrate on my work during these past two days. An impending delivery is a really big thing to be preoccupied with. I hope to be able to post a picture of the baby on this very weblog tomorrow evening or on Thursday. It depends on when I am around my computer next. I supp...

Hi there! Well, the big news is that Kentaro Burnside was born on November 12, 2003. He was born at 8:20 in the morning. He weighed 8 lbs 3 ounces (3750) grams, and he was 20.25 inches long (51.43 cm.) He is a big boy. Mother and baby are doing well. Kentaro is eating well, and seems to be a very calm and relaxed baby. Kazuko is as good as one can expect after having the cesarian section operation. I am really enjoying the time that I can spend with them in the hospital. The bad n...

Hello there! We have just taken little Kenny home from the hospital. He is such a cute, good little boy. Here are a few photographs that we have from our stay in the hospital. I will write more in here after I take a nap! Enjoy the pictures!

Hey there friends. I hope that your day is going well. It is lunchtime here in Elk River, Minnesota. I think that the menu reads "Pizza Burgers." We'll see how those taste! After lunch I am going to have an important meeting, then I will probably be on my way home. We'll see how it all shakes out. Did you see the Christmas lights? Scroll down. Kazuko and I put them up yesterday. That was a lot of fun. They look so pretty in the dark! I think that I am enjoying my assimilation...

Hello there! I hope that you are all having a happy day out there. I am doing well. I finished another day at work. I only have three workdays left until I can meet our son. That will be exciting! It is hard to concentrate on anything else. I am really looking forward to all of that stuff. This morning I woke up to two surprises associated with owning an old house. My first surprise was that my kitchen sink wasn't working. Apparently the pipe that leads to the kitchen sink froze du...

Hello there my friends! Here I am back at the library. I took my computer into the repair shop yesterday morning. They said that they'll call me when they get to it. (I imagine that I will have it back and running within a week.) It will certainly be nice to have that thing working again! As soon as I get it up, I will post pictures of baby Kentaro on this page. Speaking of Kenny, he is doing well. He is eating every two hours. He seems to be a very happy baby. He doesn't scream ...