The Faulk Family

 Here is your typical example of second child syndrome—it has taken me over 3 months to write up Miles’ birth story.   I feel terrible about this (hello mom guilt!), but I guess better late than never! As with Riley’s birth, I was anxious for Miles to be born on time or early because every day he was late would mean one less day before I would have to return to work.   My return to work date was set, regardless of when the baby was born.   Little did I know this baby would be born right on his due date—July 30, 2015!   I first started having regular contractions on Saturday, July 25.   Yup, that’s right…5 days earlier.   They were coming about every 8-10 minutes starting in the early afternoon and continuing until evening.   I was SO EXCITED!    This was it!   And he was coming a few days EARLY!   My excitement quickly died out, however, when evening came and the contractions completely stopped.   Out of nowhere.   I anxiously waited all night for them to come back,

Yea, yea.  It's been a while.  Story of my life.  As usual I want to get back into blogging.  Although I stink at consistency...I really like it.  Quick Update: Riley is almost 2 years old (oh.my.word.) and baby #2 is due in 16 days!  We bought a house a year and a half ago in Sandy, Utah.  I am still the drama teacher at Kearns High and Daniel works as a data analyst for Williams Gas. I will do a more full "life update" post later. Moving on!   This is a post I have been crafting in my head for a while and I am excited to finally get it out there!  As the arrival of baby #2 has gotten closer and closer I have been thinking a lot about what items I am going to need that I didn't have the first time around.  I am really lucky that the boys will be almost exactly 2 years apart, so they are being born during the same season.  This of course means that I can reuse all of the baby clothes from Riley with baby #2.  This eliminated any major need for clothes buying (a