Halloween Variances

I thought I'd do a little post about the differences between Halloween in California and Halloween in Wisconsin. Let me preface this by saying I'm not a Halloween expert by any means, so my brief post is based on general facts that I have observed.

In Wisconsin, costume choices must take the weather into account... because Halloween is pretty much always cold. Not as cold as December - February, but too cold to go around in a t-shirt weight costume. In California, you may need a coat, but you probably don't need to wear long sleeves and leggings under your fairy princess costume.

Also, in California, everyone trick-or-treats on Halloween. Makes sense, right? Apparently, here in Wisconsin, they schedule trick-or-treating by town, and it could be any day in the last week of October, not necessarily on Halloween. I'm not sure if that's just a Southern Wisconsin thing, or if that's all over, but I think it's a little weird! They publish in the local paper when each city or town will be doing trick-or-treating. I only went trick-or-treating probably twice in my life (twice that I remember... once when I was about 10 and once when I was about 15)... but both times it was on October 31st!! Crazy Wisconsin-ites!!

Another coincidence...

31 weeks on the 31st!

My mom got to feel Baby move!! Not a lot else to update yet. Doctor appointment on Friday afternoon :) We'll see how we're both growing!!

Crazy/cool

Today I saw Baby moving through my shirt. Sitting there at work, and I look down, and I can see his little knee/elbow/heel/whatever sliding along the outside of my belly. It was amazing :)