"Trouble With Sons" (lateral thinking puzzle)

[soxfan[$]]

Another lateral thinking puzzle for you folks (from Paul Sloane's book Lateral Thinking Puzzles). Again, if you know the answer already, keep mum until other folks figure it out.

A woman had two sons who were born on the same hour of the same day of the same year. But they were not twins. How could this be so?

Ailsa

[theworm[$]]

was she an egg donor?

[theworm[$]]

or was one of the boys adopted?

[soxfan[$]]

was she an egg donor? No.

or was one of the boys adopted? No.

[mjfrombuffalo[$]]

was it in the same month? (you said day and year, so conceivably it could be 10am jan 2, 1967 and 10am november 2, 1967...)

[theworm[$]]

were they part of triplets - or quadruplets or some other number of multiple birth?

[soxfan[$]]

was it in the same month? (you said day and year, so conceivably it could be 10am jan 2, 1967 and 10am november 2, 1967...) Yes.

[soxfan[$]]

were they part of triplets - or quadruplets or some other number of multiple birth? YES! Good job, Wormie. :thumbs:

[theworm[$]]

Yippie!
That was too fast. Give us another!

[lambchops]

Geez...and here I was thinking that maybe one was adopted. Silly me