I need help with my snake?

[Magdalen]

I'm kind of in the same boat as you. I have a cape house snake who is young and pretty much a little bigger than a pencil at the moment. I've had him for little over a month now, haven't handled him. What I have been doing is when I've been changing his paper towels out, changing water, generally anything to do with this is stuff, is I'll leave my hand in there when I notice he pokes his head out. He is very curious little snake but also very skittish (which is understandable since everything is bigger than him). The other day he actually stretched out to get a better sniff of me. I'm going slow with him and might try in a month or two to hold him when he's a tad bit bigger.
Kind of the same thing I did with my leopard gecko. I didn't hold her much the first couple of months or so when she was super tiny. The last few months I've been taking her out to handle so routine stuff is easier. In fact last night she decided to crawl up my arm while I was changing out her worms and chill on my shoulder for a bit. Once she started getting a little antsy I put her back.