DeMarco-Traill Family Blog

How’d I end up lucky enough to have these two around?
And when did Ben get big enough to take up most of the porch swing?!?!?

Ben and his cousin Connor invented a new meme while we were out visiting for Thanksgiving: Fump! It was truly a fump-filled visit, with much singing about fump (”everything is fump! everywhere is fump!”). The performance in this video marked the genesis of fump. Now, we eat green fump at night [...]

Time for another round of updates. Someday I’ll get better about this…
Anyway, one day back in the beginning of November, Ben decided that Mocha needed a birthday party. This didn’t have anything to do with a dog birthday party requiring dog and people cake.

Of course we all had to sing [...]

Ben is super, duper excited about seeing Aunt Ris this week. He’s been playing doctor to the glow worm and me. Glow worm is not doing well, as Ben demonstrates in this video. I’m not so sure about his technique, though. I bet that smashing the patient on the table is [...]

…because you really can’t grow tomatoes in NY, despite what I thought when I lived there.
These are some of the first in from our garden, and they are fantastic. For some reason, Ben will only eat the cherry and grape ones…which Ariana (the tomato monster in the family) is not complaining about.

So, I figured that Ben was about the right age to shoot off a model rocket. Some amount of coffee and glue later…

We and the rocket were ready to go at the Park! We dragged along Maddie…this was her, Ben’s, and Ariana’s first rocket…

The first one went into a tree. Luckily, I [...]

How you know that you’re at Starbucks too often? When your four-year-old says “the usual,” and gets it.
(sorry for the multiple posts…trying to work out something in Facebook)

This happened about a month ago. Mocha (our aging I-don’t-know-what mutt) swiped a whole bunch of noodles from Ben’s dinner place. We were all shocked, especially Ben, who is a self-professed noodle monster (no kidding…breakfast, lunch, and dinner). On the spot, Ben came up with a plan to prevent such atrocities in the [...]

Today Ben decided that he wanted to be a paperboy (inspired by a Curious George episode). We folded up a bunch of newspapers (admittedly from the recycling bin), stuffed them into a bag, and off we went! We left a few for friends… and then, of course, Ben wanted to leave them everywhere. [...]

Here you go…a video of the whole Easter adventure. Ben loved the presents that you all sent to him. And, yes, he also enjoyed the candy. This was the first year the Easter Bunny left baskets for Ben—he had a lot of fun tracking them down.