Entirely Different

These Guinea pigs are so different.  They are siblings from the same litter.  Their colorations. are different, but they have similarly shaded fur, Cheerio has more black while TBD2 has a only little black. Both Guinea pigs have white, with TBD2's being interspersed in his medium brown salt & pepper styled look;

At this point Cheerio will wait and let us pet him, not running away much because he knows things interesting or delicious will happen if he goes along with things. 

TBD2 is much more skittish.   He really doesn't want to be picked up.   I'm trying to give him meaningful interactions that are positive in the hopes he will relax a bit and we can be close friends. 

 

The Big Boy Update:  My son had us to school for his birthday celebration.  His classmates snapped in time with a silent song in our heads.   It was a very comfortable and casual feeling lunch with his class.  At the end, they pulled up Wordle and together played the day's game.   Then they did a whole number of additional, similar-styled games.   A lot of them were geography-based.   It's no wonder they know so much about the countries of the world!

The Tiny Girl Chronicles: My daughter got the Guinea pigs right after six o'clock this morning.   When I came into the bonus room she cried to me, "mom. they hate me!"  I told her that definitely wasn't the case, that we were all getting adjusted to things being different