How do you say Justice in Spanish?

So over the past few months, we have realized that we have a 6 yr old who is going on about 15.  The drama with clothes really started a few months back.  Bailey takes after me and is a bit small for her age.  With the fact that she is able to fit into size 4 and 5 shirts had to come the realization that what may be printed on a shirt for a 4 yr old does not necessarily = cool for a 6 yr old.  After much discussion as to why her clothes were not good enough, we ventured into what has since become her favorite store, Justice.

Now I agree, these clothes are absolutly adorable but what I struggle with is the fact that a shirt in this store costs on average $34.   It is because of this that we hit some good sales and got her a bunch of stuff but it probably isn't as much as she would hope.  Our funny Bailey story for the day relates back to this and the creative way Brent solved it, for now.  We were folding laundry a few weeks back and Bailey was looking at tags for her clothes asking Brent where they were from.  She came across a cute shirt that she really liked and then examined the tag,  "oh, it doesn't say Justice".  Brent thought quickly and responded, "yes it does.  That is how you say Justice in Spanish".

Just the other day while putting some clothes away, she pulled out the same shirt and said, "oh I love this one so much, especially because it is the Spanish Justice shirt."  Yep, Faded Glory is how you spell Justice in Spanish.  Now we may have to translate Old Navy to French, Jumping Beans to Russian and Gap to Chinese and she will have the biggest Justice clothing collection ever.

Vacation update:  She has gotten a few of the larger clues.  She will be taking a surfing lesson while we are in San Diego so she is very excited about that.  However, she is pretty sure that that will take place in Chicago.  Yeah the surfing is great there.  Another large clue we gave her was that she likes to sing and dance to a song about this place (Viva Las Vegas).  It took a few guess of Viva Chicago and Viva Mexico to remember that Las Vegas is probably a stop on our trip.  Again, she has looked at a map and insists that Chicago is not out of the ream of possibilities.

Because she is a hockey lover I figured the clue "you will be close to where Ducks play hockey" would at least get her to a city.  Well again, it was the "Chicago Ducks, no I mean the St. Louis Ducks".  Wow, I thought I taught you better than that Bails!  (This summer Cade will have to explain to her all about the St. Louis BLUES.) 

Stack it Up

Bailey has found yet another way to use her super competitive side.  She has fallen in love with Cup Stacking.  I first saw Cup Stacking when I worked at the U of MN and one of our students, Emmy,  held the world record.  We would try to convince her any chance we got to show us how crazy fast she could actually stack these plastic cups.  Well, Cup Stacking is now part of the curriculum at Bailey's school to work on hand/eye coordination in gym class (where were things like this when I was in school????  I definitely would have been much better at something like this than Basketball or anything else where a ball was flying at my face)

I emailed Emmy and yesterday a package of autographed cups, timer and a speed mat arrived at our door.  Needless to say, Bailey was SOOOOOO  excited.  She was a bit confused when Brent was able to tie her score on the first try but she told me she is just warming up and will be able to go much faster.

As for our trip, Bailey has gotten a few more clues.  Here are her guesses:
Clue: There is snow here even when it is summertime 

Her guess: the desert?????   (we really need to bump up that weather/climate/geography lesson because we were looking for the answer of the mountains) Clue: You will see a light show above your head Her Guess/Question: "So will this light show be happening the whole time?  Like when I am in the car I can look up and see a light show?  I think that sounds like something that happens in Mexico". Yes Bailey, if you take the right kind of things in Mexico I am sure a light show will appear any time you look up.   The right guess on that one was the Fremont Street Experience in Vegas with all the light and laser shows downtown. She has made one request, she said since we will be driving that we should probably stop at any garage sales we see or any Storage Wars to see if we can find either some treasures or Justice clothes.  Yep that is my kid!!!!!

The Start of Bailey's Adventures

Since I have started blogging for work, I have realized that it is a great way to be able to share some of the adventures that we have and a great outlet for some of the funny Bailey stories that we have. 

As some of you know, we have decided to embark on our first family road trip longer than the Black Hills.  We are surprising Bailey with a trip to Disneyland.  I enjoyed our long family roadtrip vacations and I am hoping that Brent and Bailey feel the same way.  I can honestly say that at the time we took the trips I often wondered why we couldn't fly there but as I have gotten older I love being able to share stories with my family about the adventures we had.  I will never forget Dusty getting upset that my dad got pulled over for speeding or that Brian and Deb had rented a Chevy Lumina van that reminded us of a space vehicle.  We also remember how much has changed in terms of child safety seats when we remember back to the winter trip to Disney World.  Angee, Dusty and I were perfectly secure in our bean bag chairs in the back of the truck.  Who needed heat when you had lots of blankets in the topper?  

While our trip to Disney World was amazing last year and we hope to do the all inclusive trip to Florida again soon, at the end of March we are starting our driving adventure.  Because I tend to get excited about these kinds of things, I made up a list of over 60 clues that we are giving to Bailey each night.  She then is guessing at where we might be heading.  The clues so far have ranged from: we will be high in the sky but not in a plane but in our car.  The guess she made on that one:  she was pretty concerned that a giant crane was going to pick our car up.  My favorite guess had to be when Brent gave her the clues of: It starts with B and smells like salt.  She went off to bed only to come almost stomping into our room in the morning telling us she figured it out and that we would be spending our Spring Break having breakfast at Denny's.  Breakfast started with a B and it smells like salt from all the food.  Not quite the saltwater, beach image Brent had but it made us laugh. 

During our trip I hope to be able to post pictures along our way.  We watched Vacation over the weekend and Bailey has requested that on our trip that we don't take any old people along because she does not want them to die and have to ride on the roof.  That was her favorite part of the movie, along with Clark falling asleep at the wheel.

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