What is your earliest memory

[Mumbling Jumba]

My earliest memory is of falling off the bed and cutting my ear open on one of those old lead toy soldiers. I still have the notch on my ear.

I related this memory to my mother a couple of years ago and she told me she remembered the occasion well. She told me I was not quite three years old when this occured. She then proceeded to tell me that the reason she remembered it was because she had to take a needle and thread and sow the ear up. I always thought she put little butterfly bandages on it, although it would explain the vulcan like notch on my ear. She never was very good at sewing.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Believe it or not, I actually remember being in the crib and talking to the ZOO wallpaper in my room

 

[sweetspicy]

Some of my memories when I was really little, I don't know if I really remember them or if I've just heard my family talk about them so much that I THINK I remember them. I guess I don't remember.

But I do remember when I was little, being outside on the swingset and closing my eyes in the sunshine and first noticing that it was orange when I closed my eyes. And it still works.

 

[poohandwendy]

I remember sitting on the counter by the kitchen sink learning to brush my teeth, I was under 3 years old at the time.

 

[PrincessMom2002]

Believe it or not, I actually remember being in the crib and talking to the ZOO wallpaper in my room

My memory too is of being in the crib, but I was peeling the wallpaper off of the wall next to it! Somehow this came up in conversation with my mom recently. I don't remember getting in trouble over it, which I'm sure I did! She said I was almost 3 at the time.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

I remember being in the bank with my mother when the news of JFK died and getting a lollipop.
I was 2 months shy of turning 3.

Yet, at 4 1/2 I went to England to visit my mothers family
and don't remember a thing???

 

[KSDTink]

My earliest memory is of sitting in the living room with the tv on (it was black and white!) and my mother coming in crying and she picked me up and held me tight, still crying. I asked her about that and she told me that it was when JFK was shot. I was 1 1/2 years old when that happened!

 

[kristen821]

My first memory was when I was about 1 1/2 yrs. My mom said she didn't know she was pregnant with my sister yet so that is how we know my age.

We went on a vacation to some cabin with a loft. I remember the loft and the owner of the cabin had a mustage and brown hair. I can remember his face like it was yesterday.

 

[Poohnatic]

I remember playing with a trouble board game in my parent's bedroom and my brother climbing the garage across the street. I can describe the layout of the house-which we moved out of when I was around 18 months old.

Suzanne

 

[JunieJay]

My earliest memory is when I was 2. My mom went off to the hospital to have her twin babies -- I was hoping for girl babies as I already had 3 older brothers and no sisters. She came home with two more boys and I didn't speak to her for a couple of days. the story is legendary in my family, so the memory is mixed with family lore, but I really do remember being mighty angry at my Mother!

 

[JunieJay]

But I do remember when I was little, being outside on the swingset and closing my eyes in the sunshine and first noticing that it was orange when I closed my eyes. And it still works.

That is so sweet! Ahh, to be a kid again.

 

[Barb D]

My first memories are of my sister being born, too, JunieJay. I guess the birth of a sibling is a traumatic event!

I was 2.5. I remember our grandparents coming to stay with my brother and I. They gave my brother a toy trumpet. I remember riding home from the hospital in the back seat of the car. My mom was holding my sister in her arms. (This was in 1963, before car seats.) I remember my mom nursing my sister.

As I type this, my grandparents are 94 and 92 and living with my parents, my brother used to be a professional musician, and my little sister has 10 children of her own.

 

[daisyduck123]

I remember being in the stroller, with my sister behind me (we are 10 months, 3 days apart...mom must have had a double stroller) & my mom was pushing us to the playground to look for our lost Raggedy Ann doll.

 

[ADisneygirl]

My earliest memory is from when I was a baby. They say you don't remember things that young, but I remember one thing. I was lying in a crib or basinet and a party was going on around me. (Of course then I didn't know it was a party!) I remember my mom in a blue dress, my Dad dancing around the room, strangers all over clinking glasses together. Everyone had a glass in their hands.

My family disputed my memory until I was able to describe the orange brocade sofa in the room - of which there are no pictures.

 

[Stacerita]

I have no memories before my accident when I was a kid. So my first memory is laying in the hospital head all bandaged up with my arm in a cast raised on a sling thing.

 

[ElizK]

I remember going into our apartment in New York when I was about 2-2 1/2. I remember there was a window directly across the apt from the door. Dad didn't believe me until I told him our apt nbr... I said it was A1. It was actually A11.

 

[TheGoofster]

I actually kept a journal when I was a baby. I was reading through it the other day:
Day 1 - still tired from the big move.
Day 2 - Everybody is talking to me like I am an idiot.

(courtesy of Steven Wright)

 

[tuckerkeys]

my 1st memory was a disneyworld trip when i was 2.5 yrs old. i remember the parade on main st, the poly hotel and the pool. i also remember the trip to sarasota after disney. this is one of the main reasons i started to take my son to disney when he was almost 1. People say kids under 5 don't rememer their trips, but my son does, as did i...

 

[pjlla]

My first memory is of my brother.... he tripped walking down the front cement walk, split his tongue wide open.... bled like mad. Second memory.... kindergarten... my teacher gave us grape bubble gum.... what a treat!.............P

 

[Mady/Sophiemom]

I remember playing hide and seek w/ my great-grandmother, AND my great great grandmother. I was hiding under their couch, and my GG grandmother got on her hands and knees and tickled me.

They both passed away, when I was 3 1/2. Not sure how young I was for her to be healthy enough to do that.