Introductions: I am Colleen. Wife, mother, snake breeder. My husband is the mastermind of Baileys Herps. We got our first exotic snake (a normal ball python) last December & the family has definitely grown since then- a pair of red-tails, 4 more ball pythons, a bearded dragon, a uromastyx, and (in about a month) a pair of hypo-melanistic yellow anacondas. We also have two very spoiled native praying mantids that have free run of the house (except the nursery, for their safety & so our son doesn't try to catch & eat one, lol). We are also in the process of acquiring an adult Suriname red-tail, an adult ghost orange sunkist redtail (he is the very FIRST of his kind, the father of all orange sunkist, produced by David Beauchemin), a pair of adult high red Borneo blood pythons, an adult green anaconda, a pair of '09 green patternless African rock pythons, an '08 purple phase albino reticulated python.
Our son just turned 13 months a few days ago :) He has changed so much in the past year! hard to believe that this time a year ago he was only 5 lbs 13 oz (he was born at 6 lbs 7 but lost a little those first few weeks)... Now here he is, almost walking, kind of talking (mo-mo is monkey, daddy, mom-mom for mommy, kitty is anything on four legs except for dogs, dogs are all duke (my brother's dog), and a few other babbles I haven't figured out yet), chasing my cats, reaching for the snakes... He doesn't understand why he can't play with them too... We do let him spend time-a safe distance away with me sitting with him- around the snakes when Chris is holding one (we only handle one at a time for safety reasons) so Gabriel can feel comfortable around them as he grows up & so we can teach him that they can't be played with like cats & dogs... Another side note, we don't ever have him in the same area as any snake that is tempermental (our native rat snake) or that is in the process of shedding (they can become nippy at that point considering they are very vulnerable).
Thank you for sticking with me through all that :) Most of my posts won't ramble on so long! Also, hopefully I will figure out how to do pictures on here soon! Hard to brag about these new cloth diapers when I can't show them off! lol. One of my favorite WAHMs makes them, go check them out on her Facebook page : Her Majesty's Closet.
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