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It amazes me when people say they have lots of memories when they were only two or three years old. Though I only have a few, they’re very vivid. My earliest memory goes back to when I was three. We were at a camp site (maybe that’s why I don’t like to camp)…and my aunt’s cocker spaniel broke its leash, knocked me down and bit me in three places on my face!
Not a memory one soon forgets. Amazingly I LOVE dogs and even when I was younger I was never afraid of them.
I’m curious. What’s YOUR earliest memory? I’m guessing it has to be something significant..
C’mon… inquiring minds want to know…how far back can you go?
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May 9th
2009
9:41 am
Margo Maguire Said:
I have lots of early memories, but I’m not sure what my age would have been for them. The one I can pinpoint is being on the operating table at age 4 when I had my tonsils out. I can still see the ether cup coming toward my face!
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May 9th
2009
3:46 pm
EllenToo Said:
I can go back to when I was around four or five but definitely before I started school. One day a week the class my older brother was in would have a film for fun day and younger brothers/sisters could come to school in the afternoon and watch. We only live a few blocks from the school so my mother would walk me to school and my brother would walk me home at the end of the day.
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May 9th
2009
5:31 pm
Shana Said:
I had eye surgery when I was three, and like Margo, I can remember being on the operating table. I don’t remember much earlier than that or even for a few years after. But have you ever noticed parents want to do all these “memorable” things with their 2 and 3 year olds (like trips)? I’m like, do you remember anything at 2 or 3? Save it until they’re older!
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May 9th
2009
5:59 pm
Cindy Kirk Said:
Ellen,
I have some pleasant memories like that too. I got this great monkey, “Zippy,” when I was about four. I still remember my parents handing him to me. They hadn’t wrapped him, but instead put a big red ribbon around his neck!
Margo and Shane,
Surgery would be definitely something memorable to a child.
Shane,
Your comment about vacations with small children made me smile. That’s because when I ask my daughter what she remembers about trips we took when she was in fourth, fifth, sixth grades…she remembers weird things–like getting a sno-cone
but little else. The only good thing traveling did was get her comfortable flying and being in different situations. (or so I tell myself not wanting to admit how much money I wasted, er spent)
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May 10th
2009
7:13 am
Laura Said:
Using a display toilet in Sears when I was 2 or 3 years old. My parents hadn’t taken me serious when I said I’d needed to use the restroom and so I wandered away on my own and found a “pretty pink” toilet. My parents made such a big deal of it that, to this day, whenever I drive past where that Sears store used to be, I feel like everyone inside “knows” what I did. You know, now that I think about it, I wonder if that doesn’t have something to do with why I don’t like to go to the restroom whenever I’m out in public…
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May 10th
2009
4:19 pm
kristan higgins Said:
I remember having a picture taken when I was 13 months old. My older brother was holding me, but I kept slipping down, and we thought this was hilarious. The picture’s really cute…fat little Kristan laughing, handsome little Mike struggling to hold me in place. I told my mom I remembered that picture, and she said it was impossible, to which I said, “Sure, I do. My socks were falling off, too.” I was right! Mom was quite amazed.
That being said, I don’t have many more memories until after about 4 or 5.
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May 10th
2009
4:58 pm
Cindy Kirk Said:
Kristan,
So far you win the prize (f we had a prize, that is, which we don’t
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13 months…all I can say is WOW!
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