The Itsy Bitsy Spider

Alison gets breathing treatments twice a day, and has to sit still, with a mask on, for 5 minutes or so. Unless she's strapped down, like in a car seat or highchair, she never willingly sits still for 5 minutes. So when it's my turn to do the treatment (most mornings, since I'm the only one home) we sing songs and identify body parts to keep her distracted. Her current favorite song is "The Itsy Bitsy Spider." We know when she wants to sing "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" because she puts her index fingers together like a point on a triangle, tying to imitate how I make the spider climb up the water spout. When I do sing the song, she puts her finger together and lifts her arms up, as the spider climbs up the spout. Then she does something resembling the rain and washing the spider out. She puts her arms up over her head trying to be the sun drying up the rain and then she puts her fingers together to be the spider going back up the spout.

One of these days, soon I hope, I want to get a video of her doing this. We have a friend who was thouroughly embarassed in front of a large crowd of people at Howl at the Moon Saloon one night because he didn't know how to do "The Itsy Bitsy Spider." I want to show him that Alison is one up on him because she knows the moves to "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" at only 19 months old and he didn't learn them until he was 23. I know he'd get a kick out of it, and if he doesn't, his wife will.

Next up, we have to have daddy teach her "I'm a Little Teapot," since he performed it so well the same night our friend was being embarassed (which is not to say that Kevin wasn't embarassed, too, but at least he knew what he was doing).