Happy 14th Birthday Dillon.

Those of you who know me well know that I do indeed have three children, those who don't know me quite so well may be surprised to learn that I have a son who is taller than me and speaks with the deep gravelly voice of a man, (very scary). The reason very few photographs of Dillon are posted here is because he hates having his picture taken. He recently upset his Grandma when he refused to let her take a picture of him. I understand his reluctance, teenage angst and all that, I mean you should have seen me as a teenager although it's good that you didn't as it was not a pretty site but it is a shame because the main reason I started this blog was to keep in touch with Mum and Sam and to keep them updated with the daily trivialities of our Irish life. Mum and I manage to see each other about four times a year for anything between one week and three/four weeks but I am lucky if I see Sam once a year. I saw her last June in New York but it has been 18 months since she saw the children.

Back to the birthday boy, he is very artistic, if you check out his blog you can see some of his computer produced artwork and he has recently started taking a lot of photographs which he digitally alters. He has also been taking the self portraits which I am allowed to post.

The collage below are photos taken since we've had a digital camera and back in the days when Dillon didn't mind having his photo taken.

Postscript: Mum had just posted with more pictures of a much younger Dillon (she has a scanner).