 Sniffers and welcome to parent tip Tuesday I am on my way to get some bird toys for the birds for the holidays And I thought I would bring you guys with me now I won't be bringing the birds because of course I want it to be a surprise So I thought it would be fun for us to go to the bird store together and shop for bird toys But before I go to the bird store I'm going to be dropping off some sniffer shirts in the mail and mailing them out to you guys If you have not gotten your sniffer shirt Click on the link below you will not be disappointed We have sniffer shirts parrot station shirts and sniffers anonymous shirts Which looks really great on guys by the way really cute baseball shirts So that's what I'm on my way to do right now Well, it's clearly not the best day to go to the post office Because of Christmas. I hope the bird store is still open. I went the wrong way like a few times I don't even know why or how it's dark now. There's been so much traffic. Oh I want to get there and get presents for my birdie. Do not film and drive children. Do not film and drive Okay Okay, I'm almost there better be open by the way I tried this yesterday you guys remember my story time Sunday was really late for two reasons well three one because So ate my keyboard, which you guys know to I Tried to do this yesterday and three then I got like I don't know what like sick Food poisoning or something they better not have closed early again. Please please please Okay, they didn't yay All right guys. I'm in the bird store. I'm gonna do some birdie shopping My favorite my favorite. I'm right in the toy section right now. So let's choose a few things So loud in here There's a lot of cute birds in here They're kind of been put away for the day because I'm a little bit late The first thing we need to do is find a toy for Jersey. That's always my favorite because she always Wants Picasso's toys because she likes bells and beads. So for example, this is like a wood toy Not our first choice for Jersey. Let's find something with some bells Sounds like jerseys in the background right now. Oh, no, please tell me they have something with bells For my little baby girl. Oh, I found it. I found it. This is a small toy. So I'm gonna have to get a few but So let's get a couple of these because Jersey and Picasso are gonna fight over these these bells and beads Love love love. Let's actually get all three of them because there's three here Jersey Picasso and Cody now Let's do toys with wood who likes toys with wood Vinny does of course. We can't forget Rocky I do have that I can make these but I thought it would be so much more fun to come to the bird store My favorite bird store by the way, so You are in Los Angeles You need to come to birds plus we need something for Vinny What does Vinny like? Oh, you know what? I just found what should be really great for Jersey these A lot of you guys are always worried about cloth impaction But if these are 100 cotton, it should be okay But she does have stuff like this and we need to focus on Vinny. So do you guys see anything exciting in the background? Vinny toy Vinny's gonna be really busy with this. So let's get this for Vinny Oh, here's something exciting This guy is a foraging toy This would be really good for Jersey because she's a plucker. She can just pull things out of it I know it sounds like I'm favoring Jersey, but I just love to keep her busy If you see all these little bits, she can just pull them out and play with them It's kind of like the way she destroys her feathers. So We're getting that now, you know that you can order stuff on amazon But it's always best to support your local bird stores Because you can learn a lot you guys are asking me all the time where I got these Here here's something really cool for Rocky. I can't get it off, but I found something amazing What do you guys think of this toy for Rocky? I like it. I think he's going to like it We have rocky covered. We definitely have Jersey covered We need to do a little more for Vinny. I think um, let's see Wow Exciting, let's do this for Vinny. I love these These have wood and rope and they're really exciting. Let's get something special for Cody What shall we get for Cody? It's kind of cool I always like these. I think the birds love these in general. Did I already get one of these actually? I got one for Vinny. I'm gonna get one for Cody. Let's see if we have any recommendations from the crowd The crowd loves everything the crowd loves everything. What's this? On yucca Are those for macaws? Everybody because I think I got one. She threw them really quick right here Yeah, this I almost got I was gonna ask you that's a skin on that's the inside It's soft and mushy, you know, do you think this would be better than for Jersey? Since she kind of plucks my cockatoo That's that has a little bit of the simulated fetal I got it a little bit That'll that'll help but you know, there's no dynamite shirk here I know I don't know if there was Why don't I get this for Rocky? Well, he'll love that. He'll eat the top string lock right away. In fact, just cut the string lock Go ahead and set it on the bottom This is Yaku guys. This is for Rocky. He's gonna play with it and probably destroy it in how long Half an hour Half an hour Yeah, you're honest a lot of people write to me that their bird destroyed everything in two seconds A toy to destroy remember that these are toys to destroy your bird will eat them But that is the point. You don't have any seeds without sunflower seeds. Do you? No sunflower I have them on pellets too, but They need the oil You think that there is anything I should let my viewers know about bird toys for the how it is Just buy what you can afford and expect them to have fun with them for the time that they have Did you guys hear that buy what you can afford and expect them to have fun with them for the time that they have them And I found a really exciting toy because apparently he puts the exciting ones up here Look at this. This is going to be for Rocky this holiday. He's going to be really excited You're gonna be set. I'm gonna be set. I think I'm set. Oh, this is exciting Maybe this will be better. This is their onyka christmas combined swans uh Everything. Yeah, what religion your birds are. Yeah, we just go by that got an aviary So I want to put a lot of stuff in there. Oh good. Just make sure you know watch your night time creatures and Got tunes and laughs and things like that. Yeah, even in the daytime. I don't let them out without dogs Yeah, no, that's funny. That's my you should got an alert system. Let's see what this bill comes to. I'm kind of scared What's the name of your store That was a lot of fun. I didn't have a lot of time in there. Maybe I'll come back tomorrow Yeah, I felt like I was I don't know Santa Claus Yeah, so guess who do you think is going to like their toy the most and maybe you guys can help me decide Who the toy should go to and I'll wrap them up and I'll give them to the birds later And you will see if you are right, you know what? Since I'm in the area, I think I'm gonna go tanning. Well that in the background is Rocky Crying because he doesn't like the tv show I put on. I don't even shut eye or something. I don't know what it was It was just on that's him crying For empire, but I want to get the bird toys and I couldn't find my keys Anywhere and finally I found it in my pocket So I'm gonna go get the bird toys and then I'm gonna fix the show for him And then I'm gonna go upstairs and wrap the stuff If you guys knew what I was using for a light right now, you would laugh I got a lot of toys to bring in Can you hear Rocky? I can hear him screaming from here Like this is all because he wants to see empire and he doesn't want to see this Other stuff. That's how birds are. Sounds like I have a zoo in my house, but I don't Or do I he's still upset. I can't believe it. I hope he doesn't see what I'm bringing in though Don't look don't you be looking at what I brought in I look so suspicious right now. I got all of it. Yay This is the video for the I look so suspicious. I know but all right I forgot to get dog toys I'm gonna get dog toys. I didn't forget I had thought about it But I went to the bird store and I lost all track of time Then I got hungry and then went to a vegan restaurant And I see from the channel in the restaurant, which Was really cute this one. Oh my god. I think I'm gonna do it in the room that I often film in Putting my key here Evidence see the words are crying, but I can't let them see the toys, but I will have to the truth Rocky show right now. Okay, baby. What's the matter? Watch guys how Invested in empire He should have a role on the show I'm gonna call the producer of empire and tell them that you don't like anything but empire He's like, yeah do that for me, please Got my phone Okay, relax. Relax. It's so dark here Okay, I got you, baby You better hope That empire is on this Okay, you don't like shut eye. Sorry shut eye. I know a lot goes into making a show, but My bird is kind of picky How about family guy do you want to watch family guy? You like family guy. He's so bad Hey Too quiet he is now. He knows the show is being changed Oh, I'm sorry. Did you see episode nine slave to memory? We're gonna start really how about cute good painted blind Let's do that. Okay You're gonna watch this episode even if you've seen it He's already moved up. Okay, press play Zoom playing. It looks like you've watched this. We're gonna do start from the beginning though. Okay Maybe if you know the music now, you're gonna be more excited Are you happy now? Are you happy now? You guys see this He's getting ready I'll get you in a second. I'll get you Good, how are you doing? Mommy's got some presents for you. Are you excited? Yeah, are you excited? Okay. Just let me mom mommy wrap this and then I'll be back. Okay Now in the world of My birds obsessed with empire You haven't heard him scream at all. Have you I hear him laughing and talking you guys probably don't know So I got a lot of it ready. Here's the toys. Here's some wrapping Here's my ring light. Yeah, my ring light. See how good that looks if any of you are interested in being a youtuber I actually have the exact ring light in the products. I love Link below so check it out. There's a lot of stuff in there too for Making your own channel if you guys are interested you can buy some of those products and get your channel started So here we are I'm in the room and I'm about to wrap the presents It may look like I'm some organized professional rapper or something like that when you see all this or Maybe those of you who are professional rappers, you'll be like, no, she's not I'm not but Just for the birds I save Small pieces that I don't think I can do anything with these are for bird toys For the holidays or whatever. I want to wrap stuff up for them Some of this wrapping is literally From the dollar store and some is from target and some is from last year birds You can just wrap it with anything. I'm serious like newspaper would make them happy And the reason you wrap bird toys is because Sometimes that's more exciting for them than the actual toy I will keep tags on things and I will give them things in their wrapping because you know, it's just like extra You know like more stuff that they can chew and get into so just make sure it's safe Oh remember my video from Sunday The laptop reminder it's still in here. I'm gonna put it away so I can stay happy. No, I'm happy Let's take a look at what we've got. I had a hard time deciding what's gonna be for who all I knew was that I have one of these for Jersey Picasso and I think cody likes these so I'm glad I have three of these Vinnie doesn't really care so much about bells and beads, but he cares about wood Okay, so what is this parent tip tuesday about besides being a fun wrapping bird video? I don't know. Can it just be a fun bird wrapping toy video? I have no idea But if you want to learn something Learn this a lot of you write into me and say my bird doesn't want to play with toys Okay, I get it that happens. There are birds like that for those birds. You just give them a box I'm not kidding. You like every bird without fail loves boxes It's just like a nesting foraging type of thing So if your bird is getting aggressive because you gave him a box that he feels like he's perching in then you want to avoid that But on a different note We talked about the different toys that birds like in one of my videos, right? So let's do a quick breakdown This is kind of like a foraging toy You have to pull things out of it This is really good for birds like jersey because jersey instead of picking at her feathers and pulling them apart She can get busy with all these little pieces. I think this is going to be a really good toy It's great for pluckers and it's great for birds that like to dismantle little things jersey also has this incredible talent for Unsewing things like I swear she was a seamstress in another life So this is definitely going to be jerseys spells and beads jerseys. She cries for these like I used to buy these for Picasso And then she would go And she would be all over it and then I was like, oh my god, you're a big bird But you like little bird toys So be aware of that so two totally different toys But for the same bird two totally different types of wooden toys I kind of like this one because it turns so maybe it'll give them a little more action I think these are both going to be for vinny And one of these is going to be for Picasso because Picasso likes bells and he likes beads But he also likes wood. These are bird kebabs. They're extremely shreddable the ultimate shreddable toy. So I'm thinking shreddable Shredder I think the shredder should be in on this What do you guys think do you think that Picasso might really enjoy something like this if Picasso enjoys this? I might give him this one. I know it looks kind of large and it looks like a rocky toy I haven't quite figured it out yet because I think this would actually be exciting for cody I think that I might put this in the aviary and that way whichever bird is interested in it gets it And that's the way it goes because I really don't know who's going to like it cody shredding toy Bell beads vinny all wood. It's all wood with vinny. He's just an all wood kind of guy real manly real gangsta That's vinny rocky. Oh, I brought out the big stuff for rocky. He loves bells. By the way, rocky Loves to ring bells. So he's gonna be excited about this. So we have rocky cody vinny Picasso I know I have another bird rocky cody Vinny Picasso and jersey. I don't remember my birds jersey. Now, let's go over this twice specifically This is a Wooden toy, but it's got like these cotton strings if you guys are worried about the string Totally understandable It is very important to be aware that some birds swallow things like these and cloth Impaction can be dangerous, but if it's a hundred percent cotton, it should be okay These kind of things are great for jersey because she loves like the little tiny strings to shred them apart So I think i'm going to give this one to jersey onto The wrapping now if you guys remember I said i'm not like an expert wrapper What i'm really doing here is making a burrito Why did I decide to make a video where I wrap stuff and i'm like the world's worst rapper Actually, I could be a good rapper. We're talking about gangster I need to focus. I need to be better at this. It's not that hard merlene It's not that hard and it's also not that serious because they just want to pull it out This is what i'm telling myself. Okay, so i'm going to tell you a little story while i'm wrapping this You guys know tracy by now. She's my best friend my blonde friend I always say that because I make fun of her for it tracy decided She's always the one that's like the best at present and the best at birthdays And I actually have an episode coming out where you guys can see what tracy did for my birthday She's like so amazing in that manner and I feel like So not good of a friend compared to her in that manner But anyway, tracy decided we are going to do this whole holiday thing And tracy's like the only reason we do these holiday things My sister can be quite festive too and she's also good at giving presents and ramping on by the way I'm like what's your favorite store? Here's the gift card or here's the money. Anyway last year We did this whole thing and we had everyone over and we all did these presents blah blah blah And jersey was really excited by opening the presents She loved it. She would cry if she didn't get to open the presents So it was so cute. I couldn't believe it I've had her open presents before but just like the excitement of everyone being there So tomorrow we're gonna do open the presents for the birdies one wrapped. What do you guys think? I mean, you know, it's not like But it jingles and it's cute. So this is one Out of 12. I'm gonna get the hang of this. I'm gonna start rolling these things like burritos All of these things here you can order on amazon I have a link down below called products. I love you guys should really check it out book market I update it all the time. I order off amazon a lot So I know which toys I like from there I also have cleaning products and tricks and things that I explained to you guys In there how and why I use them a lot of merchants put the wrong birds with the toys You see an amazon on the thing that piccasso loves with all of the beads that you guys probably saw in the aviary Try not to be fooled because a lot of things come smaller than you think But that's why I put some details in there to help you guys out. Third one of these should I wrap it in something different? What's different? What's different? Oh, this is exciting I'm just using different wrapping so that the birds are excited I think they do get excited by having something different Remember you guys could use newspapers. Birds don't care. They will have just as much fun though unwrapping this As they will playing with the toy. It'll give the toy an extra five seconds of gameplay You will spend an hour wrapping things and they will spend two seconds destroying it And you will just be happy watching your bird be happy not only that I must mention a lot of these toys will be destroyed in a matter of minutes So that's why it's important to get the right size toy for the right bird Moving on to larger toys. I didn't even bring a scissors up here I don't need a scissors because look at my magic fingers cut cut cut Honestly, I'm an artist. I swear I could be good at this if I wanted to I I'm good with my hands but um I don't know somewhere in life. I was like, what's important and what's not I lost my festiveness somewhere along the line No, I didn't Gold this is not a wrapping tutorial. My wrapping technique is kind of like a burrito. Okay I'm awful at it But I'm determined to make it work so far so good. You know what I couldn't do this with birds They'd be eating all the wrapping not bad, right? Oh a long toy Well, this is another burrito technique How I wrap there's some lines here that show you where to cut so That's the joy of wrapping for birds. They're not picky. I like to use these bags because Clearly that's my style and if it wasn't it better be right I think this gift is gonna look so good after I wrap it that Jenna's gonna want it I think Jenna's gonna be impressed and she's gonna want this. I really do It looks like a bouquet. Maybe I shouldn't even close it up top. Who else, you know can wrap 12 presents so fast. How are my eyebrows today any complaints? What I haven't wrapped this yet. What am I gonna wrap this with? This is gonna be like a peekaboo You know, she can get excited about it. I'm just gonna tape here and here So it won't open but it's still mysterious kind of mysterious. Do you know? It's a surprise it's still surprise That's happening Let's attempt to wrap this for Rocky. What is this? Get inside. What the heck is that? I love this That looks like a real pro here I found out what we can do with this Okay And then we don't want the birds to know the price. Okay I think I made great use of that man. This is A dead giveaway just looking at this. I can't all right. What do you guys think beautiful, right? I mean, look, what did that take all but a minute? I think I'm almost done. I have this And this this is for jersey and I only have I only have this left. I think they find a gift bag This rock you really need his presents wrapped jersey does jersey is more important to have her present wrap Oh, no, there's that thing again I'm just gonna like Do that. Here we go with this top Okay, another present done Then I have this and no wrapping paper, but I have this stuff. This is thicker than the wrapping paper Why? Tell me so far so good Get that other one. I saw a month or two of those. Oh, look at this Scrolls thing. Should I tape this? Rocky likes this kind of Material, you know what this looks like a mummy I don't know if you could tell may remind you this is not a how-to-wrap video I think like for some effect. I'm gonna put this on top Just because I have a sense of humor. Okay, and I can't wait for my sister to see my skills Well, the good news is I found the scrolls Here they are So nobody should question anything. I'm obviously Some piddlical figure if anyone was looking for the scrolls. They are in my house I'm not sure what scrolls those are but these are definitely scrolls That is my wrapping. I'm pretty excited about it Also a little embarrassed about it, but you know what? I think the birds are going to enjoy it I'm a little scared to take it downstairs because I don't know if it's going to last Like I honestly don't think it's going to make Let's see what happens Not bad not bad Not bad pretty bad Thought I did better than that okay pretty bad Not too bad not as bad as I thought a little peekaboo The scrolls or the dead body not sure but overall I think we're not looking so bad. You see I think I did pretty well. All right. It's time to take them downstairs Just to see like what they think See if they're excited about it Ooh, hope I don't trip. Don't get houses with curvy stairs. They're dangerous. I'm not kidding you What we got going on Ah, there's a stroller under my Not my stroller crazy come get your stroller I'm making my house festive. Oh, they're excited Well, Rocky's been okay A piece of the stroller just It's because my bird insist on watching empire, which you guys know But he watches it on the big screen in the dark so He's like a movie Professional. Yes. Have the best seat in the house. I'll show you. There's a screen I just Do you want to help me put these down? No, no or you could Okay I'm in my robe because I'm always cold. I gotta make this quick because I don't want to disturb Rocky But I got it here Let's show George my wrapping and see what he thinks George. What do you think of this? What do you think? You don't like it It's it's the scrolls It's the scrolls. Did you design it like I understand what you're trying to do there. I mean You ran out of How did you wrap that? No, because I ran out of wrapping and this was the inside of the wrapping. Oh, you like it It's very creative and then I just added colors for effect. It's it's Rockies. Oh, it's Rocky. Yeah Rocky, what do you think? Do you think you care for the actual wrapping? You know, I just Ooh, Rocky's like my show. He thinks get to my show. Look, he's on that Oh, Cody's laughing. That's funny. So there's these are all toys for them. Yeah She's not interested She's like that wrapping sucks Which one is hers? Watch how she gets attention. No, you can't open it now. That's for a different day Is this is this yours? Is this Jersey? Oh, Rocky is excited Excuse me. What's up, buddy? What did you want? Did you come to see your presents? This is yours. What do you think? It's kind of scary Yeah, I don't know what she was trying to do here That one's his He laughed here. No He's talking to me You laughed So you're supposed to go into there. Yeah, but he's not supposed to see it yet till tomorrow But I'll show you which other one is his You should have wrapped it in uh paper towels Well, he would have loved it. Do you know how hard I worked on this? That's for Vinny Oh, Vinny got some toys too And this is the Jersey Oh, Jersey, look what's inside there I'll show her her present She already likes it. It's supposed to be a surprise Oh, no, I didn't take the tag off. She's gonna know how much it was That's for tomorrow Oh, she's so cute. Look at this guy. He's excited. Are you excited Rocky? Oh, is it you coming over? She's excited. Look at her now. She's like What do you want, baby? There's choice for Picasso too. Give me one of these small ones Let me show them. I think that wrapping scares them This wrapping? Yeah, I think that's kind of like a got a weird thing to it Yeah, see I knew the peekaboo would be a good thing You like it? Yeah, it's cute, isn't it? What'd you grab? She's gonna love it Oh, she's trying to pull it out Like, where does it come out of? She found the tag. How many presents did we get, Jersey? Two. Oh, nice. No, three. She has one little one with bells Did she get the tag? Yeah She's gonna like this toy. Good choice. She likes to scramble in the tag You want more? Oh, she likes to mix them together So that is a little sneak peek on how excited the birdies are about their presents If you want to see the birds opening their presents and playing with them Don't forget to tune into Storytime Sunday for part two of this Episode don't forget to like comment subscribe share this video. Let's have a lot of fun Oh, Rocky's coming in here. Rocky, you want to say bye? Yay Rocky wants you guys to watch him on Sunday with his presents And also don't forget to check out products I love below if you want to order these toys for your birdies on amazon You'll see all the things that I like for birds. Check it out. 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