Geckos, Turtle, Birds, and Cat...Oh My! #CoronaVlogs #Quarantine

Please LIKE and SHARE our video SUBSCRIBE to our channel, and leave a COMMENT below! We post videos regularly. This video chronically our journey as we navigate this "new normal" during COVID-19 and self-quarantine. Thankfully, we are healthy. We are following social distancing. At first we thought the virus would only last a few weeks, then a month, then maybe two months, but now science predicts it will be until there is a vaccine in 18 months to 2 years. The first of our coronavirus vlogs features the day we found out school would be cancelled in the United States for a month (March 14, 2020) to April 1, 2020.

We did not explain a lot to our children at first as it was difficult to broach the subject with a 6 year old and 10 year old and we did not want them to be scared. As the virus progressed, we slowly educated them more beyond "We have to wash our hands thoroughly, so no one gets sick." Yes, we washed our hands thoroughly before then, but we emphasized it even more now.

I started taking mostly photos and then picked up the camera more to vlog when I realized this would be a way to cope and document what will be a historic time to live through. (A future vlog will show the boys' reactions to different photos capturing our first month).

This vlog shows our new Crested Geckos named Stripey and Leapy, our six-year-old Luke, our ten-year-old Conal, our red-eared slider turtle Remy, birds visiting our birdfeeder, and our tabby cat Xander.

This was originally filmed from March 14, 2020 to April 1, 2020.
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We are a family of vloggers. Our content is made for families to enjoy. We also live far from our own family and many friends, so our videos are a way to stay connected with them along with our viewers as you follow our journey. Our video content is generally not targeted for kids. We maintain to be family friendly. Gwendolyn has been a videographer since age 12. We have many videos to share, although they are not always in chronological order.

Cory worked at a zoo for a number of years and now we have a mini zoo of our own. He does videos on how to care for reptiles and amphibians. Gwendolyn loves to bake and does videos on singing, and playing the flute. Our ten-year-old son, Conal loves to play video games and make up songs. He loves making play dough surprise videos, science experiments, and trips to Build-A-Bear Workshop and the LEGO store. Our six-year-old son, Luke loves to create and explore.

Pets we currently have are: 2 Russian Tortoises named Onia and Draggo, 3 Red-Eared Slider Turtles named Remy, Atlas, and Demeter, 2 Dendrobates leucomelas--also known as Yellow-Banded Poison Dart Frogs named Mr. T., Spots, and Bars, 1 Pueblan Milk Snake named Taos, 1 Axolotl named Michael Pinky, 1 Tabby Cat named Xander, 4 Kenyan Sandboas, and 2 Crested Geckos named Leapy and Stripey.