re: What is your earliest memory?

Riding in the back of the car with my grandmother, and she was giving me orange circus peanuts. She died when I was 3.

LC

I love this question, problem is I can't believe how far I seem to remember.
When I do the math, it doesn't add up unless we moved once a year which doesn't add up. Can't ask Mother, she's 96 so a little iffy.
I can easily say I can remember at least from when I was 3, possibly earlier.

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What is your earliest memory?

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it's so interesting in reading through the comments that so many people's earliest memory occurs around the age of three. i wonder if that is common.

i remember being really bored ( probably 3 at the time) and using my crayons to "decorate" the white, wood headboard on my bed. also, around the same time, remember hugging our neighbor's cocker spaniel and getting a big bite around my eye. and i was sad that the grown ups were mad at him and not scared of the dog.

2 & 1/2, maybe 3. I had a kidney disease and my blood went septic. I lived in a 2 story house in NBR and I slept in the upstairs floor, with my aunt. My parents slept downstairs. She was at work that night, didn't get off until very late. I remember making it to the bathroom and laying down, pretty much dying. I couldn't call for my parents, I was too weak. When my aunt came home from her shift at the Cortana Mall Bennigan's or TGIF Fridays, they rushed me to Tulane, in NOLA.

I remember laying on the floor of the bathroom, staring at the wallpaper, which was like a bamboo jungle, and wondering if Curious George was in there.

Back when milk was delivered to people's homes, my grand-uncle ran a milk route for Borden's. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world, seeing his milk truck parked in front of the house. I was 3, maybe 4 years old.

I remember being in the backyard with my brother playing. I was 3, and distinctly remember being under the house playing with the dirt. To this day I'm not sure if it was dirt or just decades of dust. Either way it was so cool and very fine smooth dirt.

My oldest memory is from 13 months old. I only know that because my parents told me that was the only age it could have happened.

I was stuck in a crib in the hospital, standing in the corner, and had tubes coming out of my arms and face. My parents weren't there, but someone(I assume a nurse) walked in and held out movies for me to pick from, and I picked what I remember as Lady and the Tramp. But I may have filled in that detail later. I even remember the positioning of the crib, the tv, and where the nurse came from, in the room.

I have no idea why that stuck with me so vividly. When I asked my parents about the memory when I was older, they said when I was 13 months old I was in the hospital for just under 2 weeks because of a horrible ear infection, and almost died.

Outside of that, earliest memories are around 3 or 4.

I remember when my dad brought me to a picnic and I came home with my mom.