Just to toss my cards on the pile, you can look at this as 3/4, or 6/8, or 4/4 in compound meter, where you'd count it as

1-2-3, 2-2-3, 3-2-3, 4-2-3

or

1 and and 2 and and 3 and and 4 and and.

The way you did it worked fine.