Here are the significant posts (from the confused “blog” that I created and no one could ever access) and the pages from the old Marshalltrio site.
Blog Posts
Nightmare at Trio Central
8 December 2009: Almost every morning, I ask Bebe Trio if she slept well and had a good dream. She invariably answers with one of her patented monosyllabic monotone, yeses. This morning, I told her I had a dream about a man walking a skunk like a dog and that it was very funny.
She said she had a dream about rats! She actually likes rats — thanks Ratatouille and Remy! But, I asked her is she was afraid of the rats in her dream, just to be sure, and much to my surprise, she said, “Yes, because mom said, ‘shhh shhhh shhh.”
The parental trio has witnessed bad dreams by Bebe Trio before. She often is moaning or crying during those times. On occasion she has even woken up crying. This time was no different, but she didn’t wake up crying.
“And they killed me,” she added quietly. The line chilled me to the bone.
The Terry Fox Run
6 December 2009:
Howdy y’all!
Today was the Terry Fox Run!
Bebe Trio was especially excited because she was going to run in the Terry Fox Run! We were up early! And Papa Trio dressed in his little used running gear. Bebe Trio got her “PE” shirt and shorts! Maman Trio looked sheepish and tried to figure away to get out of it all!
Finally, all was prepared and Papa & Bebe Trio left Trio Central and took a taxi over to the Sai Gon Convention & Exhibition Center the epi-center of today’s festivities.
We wondered the parking lot chocked with people looking for friends and students. Finally it was time to start running!
Papa Trio hoisted Bebe Trio onto his shoulders and everybody walked! We saw several of Bebe Trio’s little EC 4 friends there. We saw students and co-workers and friends galore. There were company personnel decked out in their matching shirts carrying banners. There was chatter! There was good will! There was mirth! There was merriment! Everyone walked, except for those who rode bikes or roller bladed or skate boarded.
We ran into Ms Kerry the OTHER EC 4 teacher. Bebe Trio exclaimed, “Hi Ms Kerry! I’m in the Terry Fox Run! This is my dad.”
Finally, Maman Trio caught up with us on her bike about halfway through. She distributed Gatorade and cashews, took Bebe Trio on the back of the bike, and Papa Trio gamely jogged the remaining distance.
Then we jogged-biked to Gourmet for breakfast — a very happening scene packed with post Terry Fox Run… um… “runners.”
Check the photo gallery here:
http://www.marshalltrio.com/photogallery/main.php?g2_itemId=33
Lumpy
6 December 2009
Howdy y’all!
Bebe & Papa Trio have developed a series of games that we enjoy playing. I’ll describe some of them here.
1) Lumpy
a) Bebe Trio lays on a couch or a chair.
b) Papa Trio pretends to sit on her!
c) After “wiggling” around a bit, Papa Trio begins to complain loudly that the couch is “lumpy” and “uncomfortable.”
d) Papa Trio stands up and sits down a few times turning to Bebe Trio each time and asking her if the couch is lumpy.
e) Bebe Trio giggles insanely.
f) Finally, Papa Trio sits down and realizes that the couch has feet!
g) Papa Trio pulls on the feet and is surprised that the couch also has legs.
h) Bebe Trio giggles and shrieks in delight.
i) Finally, Papa Trio yanks Bebe Trio off the couch by her ankles and realizes that it is Bebe Trio!
j) The game ends when Papa Trio drops Bebe Trio on the couch and proclaims that the couch isn’t lumpy, Bebe Trio is lumpy!
k) Bebe Trio giggles and shrieks in delight and squirms under Papa Trio as he tries to sit down again.
2) Falling
a) Bebe Trio lays on the edge of the bed or couch.
b) Papa Trio goes and hides around the corner.
c) Bebe Trio begins to slip over the edge and yells for help.
d) Papa Trio proclaims loudly that he’ll save her and comes running into the room.
e) Papa Trio spies Bebe Trio in her perilous condition and rushes over snatching her into his arms narrowly averting a disastrous fall from the couch to the floor.
f) Bebe Trio giggles and shrieks in delight.
g) Papa & Bebe Trio cuddle.
h) Papa Trio lays on the couch while Bebe Trio goes and hides around the corner.
i) Papa Trio begins to slip over the edge and yells for help.
j) Bebe Trio runs in and shoves him back on the couch.
k) Papa Trio pulls Bebe Trio onto the couch hugging her tightly proclaiming his never ending gratitude for her heroics.
l) Bebe Trio giggles & shrieks.
m) Bebe & Papa Trio slip over the edge and plummet to the floor landing in a heap of giggles and shrieks!
Those are our games! And everyone is a winner!
B-I-N-G-O
1 December 2009:
Howdy y’all!
It continues to be slow going here at Marshall Trio Central: school & social life take up a lot of our time. Also, I find this new format discouraging.
Recently, Bebe Trio has taken to singing BINGO. And during that process, she becomes BINGO, I become INGO, and Maman Trio becomes NGO. Not surprisingly, she won’t let me sing along with her.
November Notes
15 November 2009:
Howdy y’all!
I think I’ve finally got all of the bugs worked out with using the new “set-up.” Now, all I have to do is make myself update it regularly. Until then, let these notes about what we’ve been up to suffice:
Halloween came and went and Papa Trio organized us to be a family of pirates! We had on matching pirate costumes and went to a wonderful Halloween party sponsored by one of Jo’s colleagues. It was the closest thing I’ve experienced to the real house-to-house trick-or-treating in 30 years. It was so much fun to be scampering up and down the street with hordes of anxious costumed children seeking CANDY! Oh and Bebe Trio enjoyed it, too.
Visit our Halloween 2009 photo album here:
http://www.marshalltrio.com/photogallery/main.php?g2_itemId=16
Our favorite pediatrician, Dr. Agnes, at Family Medical Practice has advised us that Bebe Trio has “cough asthma.” She coughed every night for a month. We kept taking her back and ala “House,” we diagnosed by treatment. First we gave her an antihistamine. And when that didn’t work, the doctor decided it was because it wasn’t an allergy. Then we gave her an anti-biotic. And when that didn’t work, it was because it was not a bacterial infection. Viral infection was eliminated when it didn’t go away after a week. We x-rayed her to eliminate a pesky hard to find infection. Once all of that was done, we gave her the inhaler again. When her cough immediately cleared up, the doctor knew that it was “cough asthma.”
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