Monday, October 26, 2015

Ask OBP #14

This Ask OBP is a response to the question about what has been our favorite Halloween Costume. This is almost impossible to answer. But we have tried our best to rank our faves in order. From most favorite to least favorite they are below, with photo reminders. (There are some photos missing as we did not have a digital camera that year, let along a camera on our phone. What sort of world were we living in then!)

#1 Batman & Robin (2005)

Hands down our favorite. Describes the boys throughout their whole lives. Henry as Batman with Benny as Robin, his boy wonder

#2 Benny & The Jets (2009)

This was Sol's only Halloween with us. This was a compromise year in the OBP household. If Sol had made it to a second year, OBP peep #1 promised OBP #2 that the next year the gang could be Star Wars with Sol as Darth Vader, Henry as Luke Skywalker, Benny as Han Solo and Luna as Princess Leia, but sadly Halloween 2 never came for Solsey.

#3 Peanuts Gang - Charlie Brown, Linus and Lucy (2008)

These costumes were specially made by Punchy at Pug Possessed. And rank high on our list of favorites! Again, appropriately fitting their personalities. Benny's "Linus Blanket" was really his puffy and Luna, with a Lucy attitude totally would have pulled the football out from under an unsuspecting, ever trusting Henry as Charlie Brown.

#4 3 Little Pigs (2006)

Straw House Pig, Wood House Pig, Brick House Pig From dumbest to smartest, enough said.

#5 Firefighter and King (2003)

Not quite their first costumes and we were still rookies, but Henry has always been the King! And Benny, while actually afraid of fires still made a great community helper

#6 Superheros (2013)

Superman, Spider Man, Wonder Woman. Who, other than Henry, could pull off Superman? We picked Spider Man for Benny since he had recently been diagnosed with an arachnid cyst in his spine. Being that that is a spidery type diagnose, what other super hero could he be? And Luna, well, Luna was obviously Wonder Woman!

#7 2 Football Players and A Cheerleader (2007)

Cute costumes, but not among our favorites for a few reasons with a strong one being that we didn't like making the boys be "the same thing". But they were brothers on the football field and in life. Luna made an adorable cheerleader!

#8 2 Frogs waiting a kiss the Princess and turn into Princes (2010)

Again, low in the ranks since the boys were the "same", but the spoof here was which boy frog would Luna choose to kiss and turn into a handsome prince? Luna's real answer would be "Neither! I am a strong woman! I don't need a man!" Our answer, is she kissed them both.

#9 Crayons (2012)

3 of the "same" crayons, but a cute theme. Benny was always called green bean, so he was green. Henry, ever the mopey type was obviously Blue and Luna, ever the diva, strutted her way in Pink, of course.

#10 Scrabble Board Pugs (2011)

Benny, Henry and Luna are all valid words in Scrabble! Henry is worth the most points with Benny a strong second and Luna close behind in total point value.

#11 Clown and Bee (2004)

These were weak costumes and early on in their Halloween lives. Cute but not super cute and no theme.

#12 Devil and Bat (2002)

This was Benjamin and Henry's first Halloween costumes. Benjamin, always the little devil, rocked red horns and red tshirt reading "devil" and Henry was in a bat costume mostly because he used to sleep with head hanging over the edge of the sofa leaving his ears looking like bat ears. He also was slept upside down frequently, which resembled a bat. They were cute puppies but their costumes were just eh.

#13 Pirate (2014)

While this was a very cute and appropriate costume for a one eyed pug, it was Henry's first year solo and a very sad year.

#14 To be revealed later... (2105)

While a very appropriate costume, things still aren't the same without Benjamin and Luna.

Hallloweens of yesteryear. May your tricks be few and your treats be many. We will post Henry's this year photo soon. I don't see him going out for treats this year so we will likely just stay home and give out to the neighborhood kids.

Oh yeah, this is still an Ask OBP post, so be sure to ask something!