Another fun morning of swim lessons. While I was home with Hanna and John was gone, she had fun driving the little Tigger truck around the kitchen. She went around quite a few times.

When we were at the pool, I was holding her as we waited to get in, and she kinda pulled on my ears, and it hurt so I said gentle, hanna, and she started petting me nicely, like we show her to do with Ellie, and then she gave me a kiss on my ear. Ha.

Luckily got a changing room right away so got out of there quickly. There was a crowd waiting when we left. There are only 6 rooms, there should be more.

A gentle rain here right now.

I've started trying to teach myself Russian. Am working on the alphabet and pronounciation. Have learned a few words. It is easier than English in that in Russian words pretty much are spelled like they sound, and sound like they are spelled. There isn't the confusion in English like white and might and mite, etc... It looks like in Russian there is no Q-sound, no J/soft G-sound, no true W-sound and no H-sound. There are four different letters with some kind of "ya" sound (ya, yo, yeh, and you) and about seven letters that in English would be a compound spelling, like zh, sh, ch, sh-ch, ts, etc... giving Russian its distinctive sound.

The hard part is going to be like in any language, the grammar rules. The different endings based on case and gender, etc... Oh, Russian also has no articles (the or an) and does not really have the verb "to be" So, to say Alexander is a doctor, you would say "Alexander doctor". The "is a" is inferred.