Me: “Hey! You know when we go to New York, they won’t let us off the plane until we sing The Song, right?”

Quinn: “Huhhhh? What song is this?”

Me: “New York, New York – you know the one…I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps…”

Quinn: “Why?”

Me: “It’s the rule for New York. We all have to know The Song.”

Quinn: “What if we don’t know The Song?”

Me: “Well, they won’t let the plane land until everyone on the plane sings it. It will just circle and circle around the air.”

Quinn: “Well, what…”

Gage: “Quinn, why do you believe it?”

Julian enters

Me: “Julian, will you tell the kids about how when we go to New York for Gage’s wish, that we will have to sing The New York song or they won’t land the plane?

Julian, breaks out in song. And then I join him and so does Quinn (she knows the song from kindergarten). We laugh and sing and talk about our upcoming trip to New York for Gage’s wish.

Me: “So, let’s sing it again!”

Quinn: “Yeah! Da.da.da.da.da….Da.da.da.da.da….”

Gage: “I am not buying it.”

Pause

Gage: “Well, how long do they circle?”