An Arkansas school resource officer joined one little girl who recently lost her father on the daddy-daughter dance.
When Cpl. Nick Harvey heard that 8-year-old Avey Cox couldn’t attend the Feb. 10 dance at her Van Buren District elementary school because her father had died over the holidays, he decided to do something, CBS affiliate KFSM and CNN reported.
Harvey discussed to his fellow school officers and suggested that they volunteer to take any students without fathers to the daddy-daughter dance. He planned something sweet to help Cox.
“I reached out to the mother. The mother came and said it was okay,” Harvey recalled to KFSM, jokingly adding, “Because the last thing I wanted to do was to get rejected by a second-grader.”
“So, her mom talked to her about it, and the next day, I formally asked if she’d be my date to the daddy-daughter dance,” Harvey continued to the outlet.
Cox happily said yes to the offer, telling KFSM that she was excited to attend her first-ever dance.
“I was excited because I never, ever went and it would be my first time and I had been wanting to go,” she explained to the outlet.
When the night finally came that Monday, Harvey wanted to make it very special that Cox would never forget.
He picked up the second-grader in his police vehicle, Harvey wore a red tie and pocket square with his black suit to match her red dress. He clicked many pictures with Cox and posted them on Harvey’s Facebook.
The pair met up with Cox’s six friends and their respective father dates. They enjoy a pizza dinner and riding to the school dance in a stretch limo.
“It meant a lot because I got to go and see all my friends there, and then, I got to go with him and have a lot of fun,” Cox told KFSM.
The night was equally as memorable for Harvey, reportedly a father to daughters who are too old for the dances now.
“I embarrassed myself a little bit,” he joked to the outlet of his time with Cox. “I danced, but I can’t dance at all.”
“She’s an awesome kid,” he added of the second-grader, whom he said he hopes to escort to all of her future daddy-daughter dances.
Harvey couldn’t help but gushes about his job, which he said made this experience possible.
“I am so blessed to have been placed in a position where I get to have moments like these,” he wrote beside several images from the evening.
“Tonight, I had the absolute honor of escorting this amazing and beautiful little girl, Avey to the Daddy-Daughter Dance.”
“We had so much fun riding in an awesome limousine, eating dinner and letting loose and being goofy,” he went on.
“We danced like we just didn’t care and got to spend time with friends and other dads.”
“I love my job for so many reasons. But reasons like this make my job the best job for me,” Harvey added. “Thank you to everyone who made this possible.”
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