Chinese donuts

They are basically fried pillsbury biscuits with sprinkle sugar.

The prince and his lamb

presets overload

I have been playing around different presets today. It's incredible how technology has changed the quality of photography. These days, anyone can be a great photographer. With photoshop, you can create different moods to your photos, vintage, retro, high fashion, you name it. In some ways, this feels like cheating, but I sure enjoy it. Here are some editing I did to the same photo. 

orginal

This preset is called Zurich street scene

retro

street fashion

cinema effect

black & white

another black & white

potty update

Things are looking up on the potty training side. It has been a good learning experience for Eli and us the parents. Patience is the key and being flexible. At the beginning, I tried to make Eli wear pants without a diaper, then he freaked out. I tried to let him run free without anything, then he just peed freely everywhere. Finally, I got him some "Yo Gabba Gabba" undies. He had no problem wearing those. At first, we had to wash 5-6 a day, because he would get wet before he realized he needed to go. So... long story short, Eli can poop in the toilet on his own. In fact he just did it twice today! We still have to work on peeing a little bit. He gets himself on the toilet, but he doesn't always go. When he does, most of the time it's up and over. I'm really encouraged at this point. I'm sure different kid has different style of learning. The more I watch Eli grow, the more I realize that he likes to learn things on his own. So many times he refused our helps, and sometimes that makes me sad. Well, that's all for now.