My dad’s daddy holding me on his lap and giving me a penny or two to buy Tootsie Rolls when granny took us with her to the little neighborhood grocery. I was three or four. A penny Tootsie Roll was a lot bigger then. He died when I was five, but I still remember how much he loved me. My sister is two years younger and I am sad for her that she can’t remember him.

I was 3 or so, it's a fragment. I fell and smacked my lip on a coffee table. Woke everyone up fast.

3,
I remember being introduced to my Brother, when he was brought home (newborn)

maybe a fragment or bit before, but nothing I can place

About 3 years old. I remember running around my grandparents driveway and playing with my grandfather. He's still around thankfully, but one memory that just always stuck with me.

I remember my brother and I playing with a "service station" made out of sheet metal, and he cut his hand on one of the edges. This happened when we lived in Memphis, TN, so I couldn't have been any older than 1½ or 2...

I remember the apartment complex where my parents lived was "U"-shaped and 1-floor when my Dad was at the USN post-graduate school in Monterey,CA, early 1970s. Before I was in school, as far as i can recall, so probably 3-4 years old?

It was October 14th 1956, Arthur Godfrey was playing the Ukulele on
KXIC radio (am) ,and singing
Can I Canoe You Down The River


Early evening,
The day I was conceived

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Originally posted by mike28w:
One of my first memories was my mother firmly, but gently explaining why I shouldn't have trimmed our cat's whiskers, with my recently acquired rounded scissors. She explained that cat's use their whiskers to determine if they can fit into tight places and now our cat might get stuck. I followed that cat around all day to make sure she didn't get stuck! I must have been 4 or 5??

That's a good one. Ha !

My earliest was getting my diaper change in a crib, with the toys hanging down on the umbrella strings. A follow on memory was sitting in the kitchen sink getting a bath. My guess was I was pretty small for the first memory, but I remember fitting pretty nicely in the kitchen sink, so I don't know how age would equate to sitting in a small kitchen sink. The first memory is vivid, and the second one is clear and simple. I remember thinking at the time how special it was to be in the sink, even though I wasn't talking, my thought was this was rad cool.

What often starts to happen is your memory becomes more of a memory of a memory. I was thinking about this reading the memorable beer thread, I started to doubt a very early memory. I know it happened, but I don't think I'm remembering it so accurately.

How knows. I vividly remember my sister falling down the basement steps during some family get together (Christmas, Thanksgiving or something), even though everyone in the family INSISTS I was far far too young to remember it. (like infant)

Am I remembering it, or remembering remembering it.

I have flickers of things along the way. The one that I still remember vividly was standing next my mom while she combed my hair for the first day of school. Don't know if it was K or first grade, but I remember feeling I was a big deal with slicked down hair.

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What often starts to happen is your memory becomes more of a memory of a memory. I was thinking about this reading the memorable beer thread, I started to doubt a very early memory. I know it happened, but I don't think I'm remembering it accurately.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yes. Parents also have a way of showing their children pictures and creating false memories. The child then believes the event actually occurred.

1956 missed the 1st day of school due to a measales event then the following monday morning had a chickenpox out break and missed another week or two. ................................... drill sgt.

Being taken to my grandparents to stay with them while my mom was having my sister who is almost exactly 3 years younger than me.
I have some other memories but don't have a way to place an age on them like this one.

I was prob 2-3 yrs old, my clearest memory was being on a horse, when my parents took my sister and me to a place with horses. It was the first and last time they ever did that. I just remember sitting on the horse, happy as a clam. Even remember one of the horses name, Copper. I still love horses, but don’t have any, lol.

I was three years and one month old (January 1951) when my brother was born and recall sometime before that my grandparents explaining that my Mom was gonna have a baby-so 2 1/2 or so.

Bob

This thread really scares me- I can't even remember what I had for lunch yesterday-

I was hospitalized at 2 with pneumonia in 1973. I remember the oxygen tent, getting multiple shots in the heinie on the daily. There was a sick girl named Mary in the same ward. I even remember the green and black tile floor and the fish tank I could see down the hall. My mother confirmed all of this many years later.

It was kind of like the Pink Floyd Song Comfortably Numb.

The oldest memory that I still remember vividly:

I was still in the crib but don't remember at what age. Would have been about 1959 maybe early 1960 at the latest. My dad would come home from work and give me a tiny piece of Juicy Fruit gum. After I gummed it for a few, he'd reach out his hand and say "caa-caa" and I'd spit it out into his hand.

After thinking about it (my smart ass comment above)- I don't really have the greatest memory. My wife even comments on it, but I do remember being in kindergarten or first grade and my mother always gave me a dime to buy milk with lunch. I would walk home after school and stop at the store and get a candy bar for a nickel and bubble gum was 2 pieces for a penny.