Inchworms!

We were out of town for ELEVEN days, not ten days. Ummi keeps telling that to everybody. But it's 11 days. I counted. Proof? We left on Friday. Then Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and lastly, Monday. Count all that and you'll get eleven. I guarantee it.

Anyway, last week on Saturday, I went with Ummi, Abi and Z to the Farmer's Market. (This was the day before I got my camera and betta.) So, like, we shopped there, and I bought cotton candy. Then we went to Shahit's store, and then we went to Auntie Saleem's house to get our plants back. Auntie Saleem wasn't home, so we raided and took back our plants. :D There were about four or three red tomatoes on my plant. I got excited when the bell pepper plant got loaded in the van, 'cause that's where I saw the two caterpillar eggs. While we were driving home, Ummi told me to look for caterpillars on the bell pepper plant. There weren't any. However, when we got home, Ummi was watering the plants, and S was peering at the big carrot plant pot. Suddenly...she found an inchworm!!! I thought it was a green grappler, because of the way it moved, but it just seemed to be another old inchworm. I looked harder and found another one! We put these two in Neptune old terrarium. Later that day, they were GONE.

Another day, I found another one. I put it in a jar along with some carrot leaves. Later I found a cocoon around it, along with some turds.

N

Money Jokes and Helpful Advertisements

~THE MONEY JOKES~

    People in Oklahoma make lots of jokes about money. I suppose that's how they are. H says that's the fad in Oklahoma.
    First of all, we went to a place called OK Halal Meat and Grocery. There was a sign above the door that said, 'ENTERANCE'. Please. So we went in thought the Enterance, and Z didn't want to get out of the van, so me and S left him in there. He eventually came out.
    Abi ordered some food, and while the people were cooking it, we bought some things. Ummi got some seeds for honey lemon, and we saw some marshmallows that we gave to Ummi for confirmation with Abi, since Ummi is so persuade-y. Abi said 'not today' to the marshmallows, and usually, 'not today' means 'never'.
    The man told Abi that the meal was ninety dollars. Abi was stunned for a split second and then tried to be nonchalant and said, "O-kay."
    And then the man slapped his knee and blubbered about how good his joke was. Just KIDDING, bro! That would've been hillary.
    What really happened was the man grinned evilly and said, "No, actually, it's $19.00, brother."
    Haha. Do you SEE me laughing?

    The next money joke was when we was leaving the parking garage of the hotel. We had to pay to get out. So the woman said Abi had to pay seventy dollars. I think. I can't remember. Yeah, so that's what happened because I tend to have such a bad memory sometimes.
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~HELPFUL ADVERTISEMENTS~

    As you may know, every hotel has a TV in it. And with us, we always watch TV in the lame hotels, not the big fancy ones. I wonder why?

    Anyway, after Abi's conference in Oklahoma, we went back to Dallas for Ummi's Public Speaking Workshop for Sisters. So while ummi was attending it one day, and abi went there too, me, S, H, and Z were left in the hotel. So we watched Discovery channel like good kids. Some ads came on, of course. 

There was this really helpful ad called, 'Insanity.' It was a workout ad about fatties that did the Insanity workout and got muscle-y and thinner. It was crazy. It was a really long ad. But it seemed real helpful. I could use it. (DON'T SAY ANYTHING, JS AND H!) 

Another ad was about T-shirts. It was called Try Custom Ink. It was awesomely cool. You could design your own T-shirt and order one or a thousand T-shirts, and all for free. That got me to thinking about Zoe and Bo T-shirts. :D

Another ad was about a face cream called Proactiv that took away ugly face spots and aging marks and things like that. It looked pretty helpful. Not only to JS, though. XD

Yay! It's My Birthday Today!

Today is October 1st, and today I am the age that is equal to 7 x 2. I am in a hotel right now in Oklahoma City. We started traveling on Friday, September 28 and went to Dallas, TX for a class by Omar Suleiman. The class was called Behind the Scenes. We got there for free Friday. Only me, H, and Abi were taking it, because apparently S had to study for her class or something, and Ummi was too busy with her class. So apparently some people have a lot of classes going on here.

Anyway, the class was kinda boring but Omar Suleiman made a lot of jokes at least. H and I drew a lot in our books, which made Abi scream, but at least some of the drawings were relevant. On Sunday, which was the last day of class, we left. We left right after the class ended. Well, we left after we had our last pee. Oklahoma was three hours away, which is quite surprising.

After the long, terrible three hours in the van, we got there. Our hotel was called Sheraton. We have to go to OK City (it isn't really okay at all) because Abi has a conference there. While waiting in the van for Abi to get our room, we saw some weird people out the back window. I saw a smelly kid peering into the hotel, and there were some weird dancing people. Somebody took the keys of a woman's car and drove it into the parking garage.

The beds are white and the bathroom is white, and the sink is too high. There is orange shampoo, yellow conditioner, yellow bar soaps, and white lotion. Very descriptive, right? Yes, well, anyway, I must tell you how my birthday went.

At somewhere around 3:00, we left the hotel. We had to be back at 4:00 because of Abi's conference. We went on a water taxi, and the tupA' water taxi driver asked the passengers if they had an October birthday today. Ummi stared at me meaningfully, but I don't like to talk muchly, so I remained silent. :D But a smelly person on the taxi named Angela had an October 1st birthday, so good for her. When we went under a bridge, the driver tupA'ly sang the birthday song along with the other tupA' passengers.

"Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!
Happy BIRTHday, undear unangelic Angela,
HAPPY birthday TO YOOOUU!"

After the tupA' taxi ride, we went to a souvenir shop. I bought some earrings for me, myself and I. And S too. S got lame ol' silver butterfly ones, and I got big, dangly blue and purple ones with a silver star on each. Then we went to peachwave, a frozen yogurt place. There was a thingy for that if it was your birthday today, you got to get a 16oz cup of frozen yogurt for free. And the weight didn't matter. So isn't that great? Yeah, so S and H told me to get a lot of frozen yogurt since it was free and all. I got what I thought was enough, but they told me to get more, so I hesitantly did. And then, I got loads of toppings. I got strawberries, white chocolate chips, Rolo candy, Skittles, rainbow sprinkles, and strawberry sauce. How good does that sound?!

Anyway, here's where something really eventful happened. They (mom, dad, S, H, and Z) left me in that place to finish off, (and who told me to get a lot?!) and I left the gift bag with the earrings in it in there! We were already walking back to the hotel when I suddenly remembered. So I gasped loudly and everybody stared at me oddly. Well, John and H did. So I told them the problem, and then John told mom, and then dad walked back to that place with me to get it.

So yeah, that's how my birthday went. Mom was playing Montezuma (a game like Bejeweled) on the iPad, and H and Z were playing with her, and then suddenly, mom lashed out at H because he was being annoying.

"Ahh, go a-WAY lah! I'm gonna play by myself. You're not helping!" :D

Then me, Z, and H surrounded mom helped her, but she didn't appreciate it. She said, "Okay, you all be VERY quiet. And don't mention any colors or you will distract me! GOH!"

So we tried to be quiet, but somehow H managed to say something, so the punishment was that mom played another one. But we all couldn't help ourselves, so mom played another one. We managed to
stay quiet and finally it was Z's turn. Then it was my turn, and then H 's. He didn't play Montezuma, though. He played Jetpack Joyride and Fruit Ninja.

Oh yes. When it was my turn, mom chased H and JS around the hotel room with her spit. Mom - a human goat? Correct.

A few hours later, dad came back for his conference, and then Maghrib came, and dinner, and now I'm on one of the white beds typing this post on the iPad.

N

Amazed by the Quran

Well, yesterday I came back from Irving, TX. There was a convention held there on Saturday. There were three speakers: Abdul-Nasir Jangda, Nouman Ali Khan (who we all refer to as The Kiddist), and Suhaib Webb.
Their lectures were mostly about being amazed by the Quran. I slept somewhere in between, maybe during Nouman's lecture.
After the whole thing was done, we checked out the booths that were selling stuff. I got a red Bayyinah long sleeved shirt in size M for free.
We met some Malaysians and went to their house. It was super-fancy. The food was da BOMB. Rice, chicken nuggets, beef, pita bread, salad, and mangoes.
Our hotel was nice. There was a green couch, which was also a pull-out bed, and a queen bed. The bathroom was kind of big, and the shower was nice. The bar soap was kind of nasty looking. It was brown with darker brown spots in it. We came back on Sunday night.

N

Yay! Summer!

New Things:
Summer classes, friendship bracelets, and traveling. Oh, and I also have something to tell you about Ramadan this year.

My summer class is kinda cacat*. It is called Reader's Theatre. Tomorrow is the last week of it. The play is on Thursday. What we exactly do is we do a play based on a book. It is from 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM. At the end of the day, we get snacks. Wahoo.

The friendship bracelets all started last Sunday. The person who takes us to volunteer at the animal shelter took us to an office and we made friendship bracelets. And today she took us again.

We are going to Dallas this Friday for a class. Our hotel has a stove and the beds are nine minutes apart, driving. We are coming back on Sunday or Monday.

As for Ramadan, Mom has planned something extremely amazing for us to do for Ramadan this year. We are going to study the history of Islam in some countries. We're going to make small mannequins and put clothing on them. Then, on Eid, we might make a pinata and give out treat bags at the masjid!

Catch you later,
N
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*Cacat is the Malay word for 'lame'. It is pronounced, "Cha-chat."

Surah Yaseen Pictorials

I went to a lecture in Phoenix about Surah Yaseen, and my mom suggested that we do pictorials of ayahs in Surah Yaseen. She said we could either make one graphic design, or five pictorials. And you can see what I chose.

Top to Bottom:
Ayah 35
Ayah 59
Ayah 21
Ayah 9
Ayah 11

-Newr-

Snow Play

I'm in Colorado.

Today I went ice skating and tubing. The hotel we are in has bunk beds. It's quite cold here. I had to wear like five layers of pants!
Ice skating wasn't so fun because there were too much people. But tubing was great. I had to get in a round thing and somebody had to push me down the hill. I hit a bump and went flying. It was so fun! We tubed for a long time and then we came back to the hotel at like around three. We rested and ate for a while and then we prayed Maghrib and Isha. Then we went to the Kiva. We rollerskated a little bit and it was awful because we were better at rollerblading. Then we went up and played Ping-Pong and Pool.

H is on the bed next to me now pretending to be paralyzed.

Oh yeah! How could I forget? The fire alarm went off, and everybody screamed and went outside. But I think it was just our rice cooker. That's when we went to the Kiva.

-Newr-

I'm in a hotel right now

I'm sick, in a hotel. We're going to Colorado and Wyoming. I hope it's not too cold.