OK, I was going to write about how spectacular it is to live in British Columbia when the sun shines, but my children have hijacked this post. So, how do you sing the song? Is it an Eeensy Weensy Spider or is it an Itsy Bitsy One? I won’t even include the option of that curiously named knitting pattern called the Inky Dinky Spider. I’m an Eeensie Weensie person my children are Itsy-Bitsy people.
Next question: when you get to the line about "Out came the sun and dried up all the rain" do you sing it to the same tune as the first line of the song or do you start out with a higher note? My chidren and I differ on this point as well, but we’ve found web sites to support each version lyrics and tune-wise.
This leads me to a test, I’ve heard about, to determine if you are from the metropolitan New York City area or from anywhere else in the world. I have a feeling you have to be older than the internet to have an accurate outcome to this test. Are you ready? Here’s the question: You are waiting to buy movie tickets. Fill in the blank: You are standing __ line. New Yorkers over the age of 50 are more likely to be standing on line not in line.
Back to sunshine in British Columbia, this is why I live here:
Life's a Stitch 
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