Dear Dot

You are getting along well at the new house. Loving all the extra space to loiter about in. Still not sure about the garden though. You keep walking around clutching your toys in the garden. Maybe because you think it's Greenwich park and you can't leave your toys behind ?

You are a curiously particular child I must say. You close doors behind you. Shut open drawers, boxes, cupboards. Put things in the trash and offer to pick up after dad and me too. We are enjoying these perks of parenthood I must say. Quite the cute little house elf you are turning into.

You have decided to take this parenting business in your own hands now and decided to toilet train yourself starting this week. You wake up in the morning and go into bathroom where you put your baby toilet seat on the the toilet and keep saying poo while pointing at your bum until your diaper is taken off and you are put on the seat. You also applaud yourself on a successful doodoo. 

Positive reinforcement at work now propelled by self will and grit. Good luck to you and your self-parenting.