Friends-by-Default

We have come up with a new term that describes the situation that the new boys on campus are in -  Friends-by-default.  In our small community having 4 little boys born so close together, and with the parents who are already friends, it seems inevitable that they will just have to "get along".  Of course at the moment that may just mean that they can co-exist in the same room for a couple of hours without it turning into a crying fiasco, but soon they'll be big enough to actually acknowledge each other's presence!
The following pictures are from two separate visits from Otto - both times no matter how hard we tried, he seemed to completely gloss over Liam.  Of course Liam being as small as he is pretty much slept through both visits, but we give him a pass based on age.

Here's Liam at 4 days and Otto at 3 months 1 or 2 weeks

Well this looks like a promising friendship!

Just about 2 weeks later (Liam at 2 and a half weeks) we tried again with slightly better results - they simply ignored each other

Or perhaps it went better than we thought - at least someone's smiling!

And this is what it could be like trying to juggle two young ones!  Charlene manages to hang on to both guys at the same time.

We also had a lovely visit at Charlene's last week with Drake there too, but unfortunately I didn't have my camera to record the occasion.  It was highly amusing to me was seeing the two giants, Drake and Otto, and then Liam who had to lean on Otto's shoulder just to stay seated upright, along side them.