​Peng's Family
Lucinda and Naomi Peng
December 23, 2004
Hello, everyone. Happy New Year!
Lucinda: Guess what? Remember last year I told you that I was disappointed to be in the second place in my school’s cross-country running race. This year, I did it. I won first place! I think I got more practice this year when I ran more with Daddy. Now Naomi started to run with us too in the morning. Sometimes we drag Mom to run with us too. It was fun when the whole family ran together. Like last year, I also played piano at the Holiday Party of Glendale Commerce Association and at our school’s Winter Sing. I felt very special doing it. I still played soccer. Our team won the first place again in the soccer tournament. Oh, at school, I joined the Parkway Student Council and have participated in several activities like fund raising, school spirit day activities, and creating words of wisdom
Lucinda at the Lake Michigan, Sept. 2004
Naomi at her 5th birthday party, August 2004
Naomi: I started the full-day Kindergarten program (K5) in the Parkway school in the fall semester. Reading and drawing are my favorite. I also started going to Chinese School on Saturdays and participated in the Chinese Reading Club. At the beginning, it’s kind of confusion because the Chinese uses almost the same alphabets as the English, but the pronunciations are totally different. I am also taking the gymnastics class. I love doing somersaults.​
Visit the Great Wall, June 2004
At Lijiang, Yuannan Province, China, June 2004
Our family at the Brown Deer Pond, Milwaukee, Sept. 2004
Biking at the Brown Deer Park, Milwaukee, Sept. 2004
Lucinda & Naomi: Last year we did not get a chance to go to China due to the SARS. But this year we did. We spent almost three weeks there. We went to visit the Great Wall at Beijing, saw the panda bears at the Beijing Zoo. We also went to Wuhan, where my Dad and Mom met at college. We also saw my Grandpa, Grandma, my aunts, cousins, as well as many relatives that we did not know. We did not know we have such a big family!
With Aunt’s family, Henan, June 2004
What a big family, Wuhan, June 2004
We then traveled with our aunt and cousin Feng to Yun Nan Province; visited some beautiful places like Li Jiang, Xishuang Banna, and Kunming. We took a lot of pictures. Here are only a few. After that we went to our aunt’s home while Dad went to India for a conference.
With Cousin Feng at Xishuang Banna, June 2004
With Aunt and cousin, Yangtze River, June 2004
In August, we went to Portland, OR and Seattle, WA. We visited our American Grandpa Ted and Grandma Eleanor, and all of their grandchildren. We played very well together and had a lot of fun. We traveled to Mt Hood and saw snow in the summer! We also visited some of my Mom’s friends (Juanjuan and Nisheng). We went to Tacoma (close to Seattle) to see my Mom’s friends Fei and Xiaoli and their two sons. On the way back to Portland we stopped by Mt. St. Helens. Daddy did not go with us, but he went to Portland in October for a conference.
With Ted and Eleanor’s grandchildren, Aug. 2004
With Ted and Eleanor at Portland, Aug. 2004
With Fei and Xiaoli’s family, Aug. 2004
Naomi and Lucinda with Lizzi at Mt. Hood, Aug. 2004
with Sophia at Rose Garden, Aug. 2004
Us with Madeline at Portland Light Rail Station, Aug. 2004
That’s it for this year. Have a wonderful New Year, the Year of Rooster!