Last Friday I had the
honor of escorting Lex on her 1st date to her school's daddy daughter dance. As
you can see from the video and pictures below, we had a GREAT time!
"It was the BEST time. When we first got there, she was kind of ‘feeling her way out,’ but as soon as she had got loose, we had a GREAT time! They would play about two ‘fast’ songs for each ‘slow’ song. When she got comfortable with her friends, she would take off with her friends for the fast songs, but she would always come find me, hold my hand, and escort me out for the slow songs. I was sooo perfect."
Lex is a PERFECT mix of
introvert/extrovert, and that dichotomy was on full display that night. When we first got there, she found two
balloons. She uses soccer and
basketballs as her defense mechanisms when she is shy or in a new situation
and meeting new people, and she used balloons tonight in their place.
As she got more and more
comfortable, you could see her true personality come out. The coolest thing was seeing her interact
with her friends. I PRAY that she has
the right friends and teachers in her circle throughout her upbringing, and we are blessed that
she was hanging out with a great set of twin sisters that night.
One story that I have to
share is that a couple weeks before the dance, when she realized that I was
going to escort her, she came to me and said:
“Daddy, we have to practice our dances for our Daddy/Daughter Dance so that we know what we are going to do.” I was able to appease her by practicing some of the same slow dances that we have been doing for as long as I remember, but it was funny that she wanted to make sure that were ‘prepared.’
To recap, this was as much
fun as you would think it was. She still
wanted Daddy around, but I was able to see some of her friends and make sure
that she is hanging around the right people ….. In Kindergarten lol.
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