Brian

At around noon July 3oth, 1983, Jean's water broke at home. I drove her from Neenah Wisconsin to Appleton Memorial Hospital. I had to stop on highway 41 to help her breathing at times. Her own OB doctor was playing a soccer match and he got to the hospital 15 minutes past 1:37 p.m., time of delivery of Brian Michael Hsu. Jean picked the names.

Things were going well while he stayed in the hospital. We were warned that he has jondace and he should get plenty of sunshine. We tried our best to get rid of that situation and eventually it was decided that Asian babies might have a higher count just because...

In many ways, he was a happy baby and easy to work with. After he was a month old, we moved to Minneapolis Minnesota with a new job. We lived in an apartment and we could not get him to sleep at night. He would wake us up every hour and we did not know what to do. Some wise person told us to leave him alone for 2 or 3 hours at a time. He gradually accepted that and life became easier. One of my favorite picture of him at that age was this one with him taking a bath at the sink.

It gets really cold in Minnesota. We tried to fit in but it was hard. Jean finally brought him back to Taiwan where is warm. I missed him a lot during those five months. They came back around April 5th 1984. At that time, I found a new job working in Atlanta. We drove down via Dallas Texas to see Clarence Teng, Jean's brother's family. These pictures on high chair were taken prior to leaving Minnesota.

Georgia was a nice place. We met many good Chinese friends such as the Liu's(王竹君). Their children were maybe 8 and 5 so they were playing with Brian. Our neighbor on Lowe Trail had a son, John Mark, maybe one year older than Brian. Brian enjoyed it there.

Around February or March of 1985, Jean was overloaded by the twins and was told to rest in bed. I needed to work so Brian was sent to a Chinese mom to spend the day. He did not like that so Jean's parents arrived to help us. Thanks to them, we survived and twin girls were born on July 22nd.

It took Brian a while to get used to having sisters around. However, I took a new job with EDS/GM in Detroit so I was away weeks at a time. Children lived with mom and grand parents and things were fine. However, I missed Brian and he missed me.

One time, Brian got upset and was hitting us. I realized that maybe we are too limiting on him. After that, I started learning child-rearing. These courses I took were so helpful in later years.

Finally, the family moved to Plano Texas to stay with Clarence Teng. One time, I was over there and Brian was with me. I was taking a nap and asked Brian to wake me up at a certain time. He did that at the age of 2.5, that was impressive.

We moved to Detroit in March of 1986. I enjoyed the job and family enjoyed it there. Brian enjoyed the apartment. He would run in and out under the sprinklers and laugh.