Against the odds ...

I now have 2 kids with ear infections in their right ears.  Are ear infections contagious?  One of them also has strep, but the other one doesn't.  Don't kids usually get ear infections when they are little and grow out of them as they get older?  I'm pretty sure that this is a first ear infection for both of them, although somebody around here has had one at some point, I think it was the youngest and so far, this time, he's in the clear ... at least for now.