- Good morning, everybody,
and welcome to the vlog Reptile Army.
I got woke up with some pretty incredible news this morning
and that news was my daughter, our daughter,
is in labor in the hospital right now
with our first grand baby,
so we are gonna gear up here in a few,
and we are heading out to Grand Rapid
to hopefully meet our grand baby here later today.
(door opening) (upbeat music)
Laurie, so what is it that you know that I don't know?
- Well, it's time.
- What do you mean it's time?
- It's time.
They just text me,
and then they're just waiting for the doctor come,
and then it's baby time.
- Really, like pushing time?
Oh my God, that's crazy. (laughing)
So we're talking probably within the next hour or so?
- Oh yeah, yeah, definitely.
- Oh my gosh, what a trip.
I'm so happy that it wasn't that long of a labor, right?
- She's doing really good.
- She's doing really good?
Oh my gosh.
I got goosebumps.
Look, I got goosebumps all over my arms.
Oh my God.
- I know. (groaning)
- It's so incredible, oh my gosh.
Can't wait, we're gonna find out what it is.
We don't know if it's a boy or a girl, we don't know name,
they didn't tell us anything.
- We don't know anything.
- We don't know anything!
We're gonna find out within the next hour or so.
How absolutely incredible is that?
Noah, you excited?
- The only thing we know is
she's not getting the first baby of the year next year.
- No.
- Oh no, definitely not.
- No free diapers.
- That's okay, I'll buy all the diapers.
(laughing)
- That's incredible.
Okay we basically got everything wrapped up here
so we can get in the car, hit the road,
and get over to Grand Rapids.
So we're on the road.
We're actually just left to go drive a couple hours
to Grand Rapids to meet our grand baby.
I'm excited, I can't.
It's like it's, it's unbelievable.
It's surreal, isn't it?
- Yes, yes it is.
I can't wait to just grab this little nugget
and snuggle him.
- I can't wait so again, we're a couple hours away.
Seems like it's gonna take us forever.
I mean, you know, seeing the pictures
and you know, definitely can't wait to get over there,
so this is gonna be exciting.
- Hey guys so today, very cool day actually.
So Brian and Laurie are on the way
to meet the new grand baby which is super exciting.
I mean first one ever, what?
But there's still stuff to be done here at the Reptarium
so it's our jobs obviously to keep the place running
so let's get going.
We've got to start with some bug feeding.
Look at all my roaches, nasty things, but let's get going.
We're gonna start with Cherry Pop up here.
- [Cameraman] Wakey wakey!
Eggs and bacey!
Time for school.
- [Man In Red] There she is.
Why I call her Cherry Pop, she's red
and she just pops up out of nowhere.
(upbeat music)
See the reptile army swag, dude?
- Christmas baby.
- [Cameraman] But now it's a new year shirt.
- Whatever.
Big old roach.
Yeah!
He would never survive in the wild.
Get it, there it is.
Bearded dragons.
All right so now we're gonna move on to Nova and Lilith.
Lilith, Lily.
We're gonna see if she won't come down.
I mean, they might not be hungry.
Oh, Nova's always hungry come on.
You dropped it!
There it is.
Lily.
(rock clatters)
(groaning)
I'll be right back.
(upbeat music)
(laughing) Longer tong.
Get some longer tongs so my short arms can reach.
You want this?
Okay, well, I don't think she's hungry
so we'll give Nova a little more,
and then move on to the next guy.
Not my finger, please.
Please don't put a hole in my new shirt,
I really like this one.
All right, so we got Betty White
and nice big fat, juicy roach.
Do you want this?
Oh, it's dripping.
Ew, here, want the roach?
Ew, it is.
No, not the new shirt.
Yeah, I knew that was a lie.
Look at her.
She's a little chunky.
Ooh, that smells great.
Man these roaches are like fat and happy
and healthy and nasty and
stinky.
- I got to start feeding.
I got to get everything done really early this morning
because I got to spend all of my afternoon cleaning
and preparing for the Reptarium because this weekend
is gonna be a long one, especially after Christmas
and everything like that guys
so as you guys already know, we're always working hard here,
so let's go ahead and get started.
(upbeat music)
It's so cool that he's able to like do things like that.
It's just such a resourceful and intelligent animal.
He always blows my mind all the time.
(upbeat music)
You wanna take that piece?
Come here Salty.
Oh yeah, don't bite me.
Don't bite me, I'm not the food.
Up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up.
There you go, good job girl.
I'm really trying to work on her to actually
to not come at me like that because
the one thing I'm worried about is her running off
the ledge over here so teaching her up.
Up, up.
Good job, good job.
Teaching her up basically means like she's thinking
the food's coming up versus forward.
It is teaching her essentially to stop
and essentially reach up for food
versus trying to reach sideways
or do any of that sort of stuff.
Good girl, good job.
If he saw a rodent, he'd be down here in a second,
but this chicken, like yeah, there he goes.
There you go.
That's a little bit excitement, I like that.
Gonna eat it?
There you go.
It's a nice piece.
That's a good piece for you.
Kinda callin' me a liar right now.
He's definitely eats it,
but as you can kind of tell,
there's not really a lot of interest.
(laughing)
He actually got my finger a little bit there.
- We're down here breeding all the antaresia
and then some of the boas.
I can tell for sure that the children's
and the spotted and stuff are breeding.
I've like caught them in the act.
I haven't caught any of the boas though.
They're very secretive.
We have a couple males of each species
and they're going cycle through with all the females.
I just have to come down here every day
and make sure they get switched
so every female is getting bred with.
So I'm just going through to switch males right now,
See if we can get some baby snakes.
- There's a little bit different
for our kind of environment that's for sure,
and it is, it is chilly,
but being as it is Michigan so we got it.
We actually have to get ready
for the Reptarium this weekend so that means we're out here
salting and shoveling the snow
like I do at my house every day.
It's awesome, innit?
- Yeah.
- [Cameraman] Where is your jacket dude?
- It's not that cold.
- [Cameraman] It's like 40 degrees.
- It's 'cause of that Michigan blood.
- Hey you know what?
In the south, I'll keep my warm blood, all right?
I am all right with that.
(upbeat music)
- We've got to Grand Rapids here and it's killing us because
the baby, it can't get out of the hospital for
I don't even know.
I mean, they're just, you know, taking their time so
it's just a waiting game to be honest with you
and it's so difficult because we want to see
little Nathan James so bad,
but unfortunately they said it's gonna be somewhere
between two and maybe even six hours
so we're just gonna be chilling out here
just anxiously awaiting.
- We're gonna our Cuban false chameleon.
Don't remember what his name is.
- [Cameraman] I would have named him like
El Guapo or something.
- His name should be Castro for Fidel, he's Cuban.
El Chapo would have been a chameleon.
He blended in anywhere.
Oh, that's a good one.
I'll just keep blowing my mind today.
- [Cameraman] Don't drop it.
- We're gonna try chunky monkey.
She likes a big, fat, juicy roach.
Ooh.
Whoops, nope, nope.
I dropped the roach.
She's like, aerial attack.
Oh, there it is.
Done so now we're gonna move on to Nova and Lilith's baby,
this is Chicken Nugget.
Just like his dad.
I can't say that, I'm just like my dad too, but it's okay.
(upbeat music)
I didn't just almost fall.
Oh Vlad the Beard.
Crazy psycho.
Legless lizard.
Look at his eyes, they're already like.
Here, you want this?
Oh yeah, you do.
Yeah, you do.
I just realize his eyes are yellow.
How crazy of would it be if he would have bit that stick
and it would have snapped?
I would have cried.
This is why it takes me an hour to feed stuff.
Lost it.
Oh no, that's a leaf.
Draw him in there and make him hunt them down.
Like that one.
And he just ripped it apart and eats it,
so I just take a couple more, different sizes, mix it up,
and he will just go through and hunt them down
until there's nothing else moving in there.
This is our Australian lizard that we just got,
freely of course.
I know Noah asked you guys to put a bunch of names
in the comments so there is quite a few good names.
- [Cameraman] Can we call him Billy the Frilly though?
- I was thinking like Dundee.
- [Cameraman] Can we call him Billy the Frilly?
- So silly.
- [Cameraman] See what I'm saying?
- I like the no name, it's mysterious.
- [Man In Red] What are you looking at it?
No, oh, you little turd.
I knew you gotta do that.
Go straight for the bucket.
Got some right here.
Come on, come on, come on, get back up here.
Come on, come on.
There it is.
Not a free for all.
You're civilized.
Billy the frilly, it's very silly.
That's a good one, I like that.
Just stupid little things like that
that makes the world go round.
We have too many food names too.
He's just like, his tail is so much longer than Nova's too,
and he just crazy when it comes to food.
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
Come on, come on, come on.
Oh just dropped it!
You still dropped it!
(upbeat music)
Big ol' oops.
- It's about time to redo the single iguana enclosure.
You can see the iguanas, they've got pretty long nails.
They can scratch the plants and destroy them after a while,
just sorta like the anacondas destroyed their plants.
So yeah, we're gonna go through and redo this cage today
and hopefully make it look a lot better.
(upbeat music)
We're all done.
I think it looks much better
with a little pop of color in there.
Kind of matches the two of them as well.
So yeah, looks great.
- Hello!
- Hi baby beags.
- Congratulations.
- Thank you.
- Very interesting.
- Okay buddy, okay, okay.
- [Brian] Oh my god he's so tiny.
Oh my goodness gracious, he's such a littlest little thing.
- This is Nathan.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- Say hi.
Uncle Noah and GiGi and Poppop, I don't know.
(laughing)
- [Brian] Your little eyes open silly.
- Oh my God, he's the cutest little thing in the world.
- You got both my fingies, take somebody else's fingers.
(laughing)
- This is surreal.
Doesn't feel real.
- I mean yeah it feels real but it's real.
(baby squeals) (family "aw"s)
- Oh my goodness you are so tiny.
- [Man] He's under six pounds now.
- [Brian] What do you think honey?
- He's adorable.
He's so cute.
- [Brian] He's so cute, oh my gosh.
I can't believe it.
It's crazy.
Oh my gosh.
- Hey little buddy.
- [Brian] Look it's Uncle Noah.
- It's me.
- [Brian] It's uncle.
- Look he's smiling.
- I think he's sleeping.
- [Brian] Oh my goodness gracious.
He is really beautiful, he really is you know.
So guys meet little Nathan James.
Oh my gosh.
He is so cute.
I'm gonna cry.
Oh my gosh, he's so cute.
Can I hold him?
- Yeah.
- Oh my gosh.
Oh my goodness gracious.
I know.
Hi sweetheart.
(dog panting)
You guys did so good.
(laughing)
He is a little angel.
Oh my gosh.
Is that the cutest thing in the world?
- He is.
- He's so beautiful.
Look at his little fingers.
We're grandparents.
Isn't that crazy?
- Yes, it is. - Oh my gosh.
It doesn't even make sense.
- It's the real word.
- Oh my gosh, so beautiful.
Do you want to hold him Noah?
- An initial.
- Hey Uncle Noah
- Hey buddy boy.
- [Brian] There you go.
- You're so tired.
- [Brian] He's so cute isn't he?
- Laurie's got her official Gigi shirt on.
So how was that?
Was it?
It was hard to wait to meet little Nathan James,
but it was so worth it, huh?
- Oh yeah, absolutely.
It was definitely worth the wait and yeah.
I was just excited to spend
as much time as we can with them.
- I know, I know it's gonna be so hard
not to see him every single day.
It's gonna be crazy, but definitely an amazing journey,
and we're just so happy that Jade and the baby
and everyone is really healthy, and
so I guess now it's back to the shop.
- [Noah] A little bit of speed.
A little bit of speed.
(reptile clatters)
You can do it!
(upbeat music)
Almost there, almost there, almost there.
Get it, get the chicken!
(laughing)
God I love Elvis.
- And I'm back here at the Reptarium.
Obviously, it's a, just an amazing experience,
and I appreciate you guys allowing me
to take you on this journey.
I'll be totally honest with you,
it's as much for me as anything because you know,
I'm gonna actually be able to look back on this vlog
and see the actual moment that I've met my first grand baby,
Nathan James, and it's just amazing.
You know, again, it's a feeling I can't even describe.
I mean, I don't feel like I'm old enough to be a grandpa,
but it's so cool to have this experience in my life,
and it was so amazing to go.
It was stressful because it took hours
and we're sitting there waiting and waiting,
but what an absolutely amazing experience,
and I'm so glad that my crew had a good time here
and took care of everything.
That's why I'm so blessed to have an amazing crew
because I can take off for something like this,
and I'm sure we'll try to take more time
now that we have a grand baby to spend some time with them
a couple hours away here from the Reptar but nevertheless,
it's always good to be back here as well, and like I said,
thank you so much for allowing me to kind of take you guys
on this journey and get away from the Reptarium.
I mean, I hope that you guys enjoyed it
and enjoyed the peek into our personal life like that.
So like I said, this was as much about for me
than anybody else so that I could look back on this
and look at Pretita.
I think she missed me too.
All the animals missed me.
I can't believe that.
It's amazing to be back
and it's amazing to have a little grand baby.
And once again, thank you guys for allowing me to do this.
I appreciate you guys so much.
You guys are absolutely amazing.
Can you do me a favor?
You know, like, if you hit a playlist,
watch a couple of videos that would do me
a tremendous amount of good.
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Have a wonderful day Reptile Army.
Remember, be kind to someone and I promise,
I'll see you in the next one.