Little girl challenges her grandpa to an epic dance battle
In Nashville, Tennesse a 6-year-old girl named Kira and her 80-year-old grandfather Marvin are finding new ways to have fun just like the used to before COVID-19 all while keeping the mandated distance apart.
People all over the world are finding new and creative ways to spend time together while maintaining a safe social distance apart. Some of us are using our technology to have group hangouts, in some places we are going out on our decks and singing to each other and some of us are even live streaming free workout routines. Each of us is finding new ways to be with each whether virtually or with space in between trying to become better together.
All of us around the world are deeply missing being able to be near our friends and family. In this time of isolation, many of us are looking back at all the little things we took for granted such as hugs, high fives and the simple fact of being within six feet of each other. But in Nashville, Tennesse a little girl named Kira, and her grandfather Marvin found a way to have fun just like the used to and keep the mandated distance apart.
At only 6-years-old Kira had a very unique and fun idea to challenge her 80-year-old grandfather to a dance-off or what is now being coined as “dis-dancing” standing at a safe distance apart at the end of their driveways with the road between them.
“This is the street that separates my house from my parent’s house, and is typically crossed multiple times throughout the day. Kira loves her “Papa” so much and they’ve now started daily “dance-offs” since the virus is keeping them separated. My Dad is turning 81 years old next month and I’ve never seen him dance, but he’s really putting forth great effort and has some special moves!!!! I’m sure the workers think we’re crazy!!!”
Their epic dance battle is melting hearts all over the internet. The exchange is so precious because you can see the pure joy Kira has in sharing this moment with her grandfather.
When Kira was first born her grandparents and Sherrie’s parents, Marvin and Gayle, decided to move across the street from them. According to her mother, Kira and her grandpa Marvin have always shared a natural connection that has only grown and been made stronger just as Kira has grown. When Kira was just a baby, Marvin would take her for walks every morning in her stroller and as she’s continued to grow up he has attended any activity or events she decides to be apart of including going to father-daughter events at her school.
“It’s been a really special relationship because otherwise, it would just be the two of us,” she said. “Having mom and dad next door, it’s been such a wonderful thing for Kira because our family is larger.”
As the pandemic has made its way across the globe schools for all ages have had to adjust to and move their teachings to online classes. For Kira, this means she had to continue her kindergarten via virtual learning in mid-March. But even before the shelter-in-place and social distancing were fully enforced Kira began distancing herself from her parents because she feared potentially infecting them.
As for 6-year-old Kira, it’s been tough not to be allowed to get near her grandparents. Her grandfather’s 81st birthday is coming up and Kira has cried over not being able to bake him a cake and give him a big hug. When Sherrie spoke with Good Morning America she mentioned,
“We did FaceTime once but it’s easier to just go outside and talk to them,” said Sherrie. “My dad sits outside in a chair and just watches her play and sometimes they kick a ball back and forth and she’s been able to draw pictures and hang them up for them to see.”
As many of us know, FaceTime, Zoom and the other virtual ways we can see each other again is helping for the time being but it’s not the same as face to face contact. Luckily for Marvin and Kira, they can still go to the end of their driveways, kick a ball back and forth, draw pictures for each other or even have an epic dance-off.
“Sometimes we just sit out there and talk with the distance between us,” Sherrie told Good Morning America.
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