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We were talking on the phone with our brother yesterday, when we somehow got on the topic of this year's Halloween costume ideas for the kids. Last we heard, our oldest son wanted a black Spiderman costume (easy), while our youngest chose to be Boots, the monkey from Dora (not quite as easy). Anyway, as we were having our conversation, our 8 year old suddenly said from the background that he now wanted to be Arnold from the Magic School Bus television show. We were shocked to find out that our brother, the brilliant pediatrician, had never even heard of this Scholastic series. How embarrassing for him, we teased in our typical smug sibling fashion. Then, much to our brother's glee, our four year old insisted that he now wanted to be Phoebe, the redheaded girl...yeah, like we'll ever hear the end of that one from big brother. Darn it...we hate it when he gets the upper hand!

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Kylie Jenner just took showering love on her beloved's birthday to an altogether different level by gifting a shining new Lamborghini to Travis Scott on his 28th birthday. She started celebrating Scott's birthday five days prior to the actual birth date that is the 30th of April. Jenner saved the best gift, the silver Lamborghini worth $280K for the last and took him by surprise with the stellar birthday present. Scott, the father of Jenner's one year old daughter Stormi Webster, took to his Instagram stories for flaunting the sparkly new car with a huge red bow resting on its hood. With hearts and smiling emojis, Scott wrote, "Wifey you go in every time". Travis too is no less than Jenner. Last year, he gifted Kellie a gorgeous white Rolls Royce on her 21st birthday.

It is that time of the year when you spend all your days cursing the scorching summer heat and the harsh rays of the sun. Well, you don't have to worry much as with summers comes the summer vacation when we all take some days off from school, college and work to rewind, relax and chill at a place away from the hustle bustle of your mundane life. So if you are wondering where to go this year to beat the summer heat, here are some cool Indian Places You Need to Visit in India that you must definitely visit this summer vacation:

We are not trying to create any hoax, nor do we intend to create any hype for no reason! A report by Australia's Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration (BNCCR) claims that we have just another 31 years after which the climate change will cause more than 90 percent of humans to wipe out. So, if we do not mend our ways in harming the climate, by 2050, the human race will cease to exist!

Over the New Years holiday I couldn't help but notice that the Christmas holiday was pretty much where the kids had dropped it. The biggest difference between these piles and an ancient midden heap is that I don't have to trip over ancient midden heaps...

My wife Ann has a small obsession. Colors. As a child she memorized the names of the crayons in the big box and became incensed a few years back when they retired some colors and added some new ones. The Sdyor children have taken up their mother's mantle. Of course not without a twist...

OK, so maybe it's not the plague but the Norovirus is running through the Sdyor house and it is not fun. You may have heard it called the Norwalk virus but my personal favorite is the Snow Mountain virus. Which if you live in New England is ironic because it's now February and it's the only snow we've had this year...

Recent tests in geography found that US 8th graders averaged 282 out of a score of 500. This is by no means a great score, and I have an idea on how to improve it. What the country truly needs to do next year is keep my daughter home on test day...

I wish to speak to you about the most important gift you can give this year. Batteries...

Every religion makes some sort of pilgrimage. For the Muslims it's Mecca, the Mormons would have you visit Salt Lake Temple, and ice cream worshipers go to Ben and Jerry's in Vermont. For Christians it's the yearly pilgrimage to sit on a fat old mans lap...

The conversation at the Sdyor dinner table is often about food. Where vegetables grow, what type of trees the fruit are picked from, and what type and cuts of meats come from what animal. Over the years some of the kids have even paid attention. Sometimes too much so...

My wife Ann and I have always been leery of allowing our children in hot tubs. Besides drowning and the potential for burns, there is the urban myth that hot tubs can cause sterility. Try using that as an argument to a nine year old boy...

It happens every year. You finish the kids holiday shopping without knowing what that one big gift they truly want is. It seems that as soon as the last bow is secretly placed on the last wrapped present they burst into the room without knocking to tell you they have figured out what they really want for Christmas...

The other day I went to Chuck E Cheese with a friend, just to see how it will be after all these years. When we were younger we use to go there all the time. The games, the....

I would like to use today's blog post to wish my lovely bride Ann a very happy 43rd birthday. Some of you are cringing right now that I broadcast my wives age to the world. This is by far the least worst thing I have ever done on my wives birthday. In the twenty years we have know each other I have...

As today is my wedding anniversary I thought I would be true to type and do a romantic thing in a completely unromantic way. It's not that I'm not loving, far from it. I just seem to have a mental imbalance that causes me...

Father's should not be allowed in grocery stores unless it is to buy beer. Or steak. Or beer and steak. I know a statement like that is gender limiting but there it is. I have almost twenty years of anecdotal evidence to this fact. Today was a prime example...

This year, my children had the great idea to make Thanksgiving craft puppets. I may just have to take a break from the kitchen and join them. http://kidscraftsblog.hyglossproducts.com/2011/11/21/pilgrim-and-indian-puppets-thanksgiving-craft-activity/