The Cat Has a Hat, by F.A. Skertich

So for Christmas I got these blank books with some markers. Basically you're supposed to write your own story with pictures and some of the stickers they give you or whatever. Well, I decided to skip the stickers and pen my own novel - appropriately titled, "The Cat Has a Hat."

P.S. I made up this story all on my own and wrote all these words myself except for "started," "thought" and "hedgehog."

So that picture above is Mabel hanging upside down by her feet and her cousins and me gathering around. No follow up questions, thank you.

So that's me in the background and Dad rocking the jazz hands.

Hey, not everything has to rhyme, you know.

Down & Out

HEY FINLEY, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!!

Well, young fella, let me tell you. Below is a picture of Mae and me laying on our air mattresses. Well, those air mattresses transform into what we call our "puke boats." See, when we get the stomach flu, we get our puke boats out, blow them up and hang out on them til we're better (hence the pots next to them).

So where have I been? Well, let's see. Dad got influenza A a few days before Christmas, Mae got a virus after Christmas, which morphed into an ear infection. Then I got the stomach flu right after the New Year, then Mae got it and then Dad and Mom got it. In the meantime, Dad never got better and now has a nice cough. In the mean-meantime, Mae went from the stomach flu into a really bad cough which was diagnosed the other day as a double ear infection. Then last night, after steering clear of all the fever, cough and flu sicknesses in our house, I went back to school and picked something up and now I've got a fever, runny nose and a cough.

So where have I been? Down and out, dude, down and out.

New Year's Resolution

My New Year's resolution this year is to learn Mary Had a Little Lamb on the piano...

Okay, done with that. My next one is to compose my own classical/contemporary piece...

It's gonna be a good year.