First-ever thing you can remember.

[wakefromthysleep]

In various threads memories from your childhood pop up but what is the very first thing that you can remember?


In my case I think it's the morning of my fourth birthday.
As my parents were at work it always was my grandma who took me to kindergarten and on this morning I clearly remember me dancing across the street, singing 'It's my fourth birthday, it's my fourth birthday!!' and showing to her with my fingers how old I was; four. My birthday is in dark december but I remember this moment with the sun shining through the trees. Magical. I'll never forget.

[papilioulysses]

as i went to the waste bin to trash my soother.

[husbandwifeheroin]

The earliest thing I can remember is when we recently moved to our house (I was three) we were getting a new carpet and I was too scared to walk down the stairs because of the spikes and being carried down by my mum then being put in my high chair in the middle of the living room and watching dad painting the wall.

[victorinox]

I must've been two.

Our house at the time had a slanted wall in the FUCKING fdfghjkKITCHEn. It was a popular idea among my sister and her friends (they were like five) to try climbing up the other side of it, located in the living room. There was sun coming through the window to my...left? I remember it being sunny, and the wall being pretty white. Anyways, I tried climbing up it. Lacked coordination and skill. My little socked feet slipped, I tumbled.

eta: can't spell

[irrelevant]

having pita bread and tea for breakfast while watching little house on the prairie with my mom. [somewhere around age 4 or 5]

[sueme]

I don't know if it's the first memorie I remember, but it's the earliest I can come up with right now.
It was my 3rd birthday and my neighbor was for a visit. (I don't know how old she was since she seemed pretty old to me, but it could have been ten years older than me at least.) She was kinda my idol or something at that time and she gave me a doll with yellow curls and bright blue eyes. Now that doll has only one arm, but she meant a lot to me and I still remember her intense eyes. The colour was not realistic but I loved it.

[allison]

i don't have any memories before age 2.5 cause thats when my brother was born and my family got a video camera. up until about age 5 all my 'memories' are just moments i've watched on film. i kind of remember something from when i was ~2, but again, that might just be imagining something i was told.

so, when i was five, i remember: (1) feeding my imaginary horse fennel from our neighbour's yard, then getting scolded for it; (2) a large branch of the eucalyptus tree in our yard nearly falling on my little brother; (3) making jam with my mother and being very annoying, repeating "strawberry juice stains a lot, strawberry juice stains a lot"

i also have vivid memories of things that never actually happened, such as: (1) an army of tanks coming down our street; (2) my mother hitting a deer and blood everywhere; (3) getting bitten by our neighbour Evan

[admin]

All of your memories are so... nice.

I remember being accidentally locked in a cupboard at nursery school, and being all, like, 'Oh, girl, I do not have time for this shit today... SCREAM!'

They let me out pretty quickly.

Cheerio, Michael. xxx

[choolin firth]

My memory is freakishly good, and my first memory is being held by my mum after a Christingle service in Cornwall at 16 months. Other early memories I have are of the dinner after scattering my grandad's ashes and my cousin getting chocolate ice cream all over his face when I was 2, and my dad coming home to tell me and my granny that my sister had been born when I was 2 1/2.

[vultures]

I remember when a teacher dropped a clock on my head, and that is prob why i cant recall any earlier memories LOL

[jadeface]

I remember spinning a giant spinning top that had like horses or something in it that span around inside when I pushed down the plunger bit. I totally can't explain, but it was red with yellow on, and I was probably 2 or 3.

And I remember falling down the stairs, only once. But I fell down the stairs a lot. As an infant I like rolled down the stairs as I was at the top (no idea why anyone put me there, how silly!) and my dad caught me through the bannister. I don't remember that obviously, but I remember falling all the way down the stairs, and having a bleeding nose and my dad holding me.

[sueme]

Outch. I remember falling down the stairs. No, not really since I can't actually tell anymore if I really rolled it down like I think I did. But I remember sitting at the bottom of the staircase and crying. I don't think I was older than 3 or 4.

[helwin tins]

putting together my tricycle with my dad a few days before my second birthday, as it was meant to be a birthday present, but my dad wanted to give it to me early so we had something fun to do that day because he rarely got to spend time with me alone. then he took me to the park. I remember very clearly my mom saying goodbye to go out, and putting stickers on it, and then cycling around and my dad telling me i was going too fast.
i'm also convinced that I can remember being in a baby bouncer, but am not 100% I didn't create a composite memory.

[helwin tins]

my sister's first memory is when we were sharing a room ages 9/10 and 2/3 and i drew a line through the room, and told her she wasn't allowed on my side, which upset her because the door was on her side so i got to walk through hers.
also, around the same time she covered a playmobil baby in blu-tac and called it blu-tac baby, and we still have it, and it's still a running joke.

[lastgoodbye]

Sibz, those are so sweet

I have a bad memory even now, but I can remember being three/four I guess, because my grandma died when I was four and I remember her vaguely, but mainly I remember her house. In her back garden there was a giant plant with furry seeds on the end of long stalks, and with leaves that cut your hand when you ran it down them. I used to cut my little hand a lot.

OH and I can remember the day Princess Diana died. I was four then, on holiday on the Isle of Wight, watching Skippy the Bush Kangaroo at 7am with my brothers. The newsflash interrupted Skippy.

[Xteenuh]

My earliest memory is actually of intense fear. I must have been about 2 or 3. It was Halloween season and my parents took me to a nearby pumpkin patch that sold pumpkins and had a "haunted" hay stack house set up. My dad was holding me, and I remember seeing a young man in a scary Halloween mask burst out of an entrance of the hay stack house, growling, chasing a small group of what were probably teenaged girls who were screaming and running away from him. It scared the bajeesus out of me and I sat there totally frozen as I watched the girls walk away and the masked thing walk back into the hay house, and I couldn't take my eyes off of the house for a really long time, I was absolutely petrified because I didn't know what terrible things were going on inside or when he'd come out next. My dad realized I was scared and he was trying to take me over to the tepee they had set up on the other side of the pumpkin patch, and I remember looking at it and being like, um, no fuckin' way. A tall dark tepee looming in the distance did not look any more inviting after that whole fiasco...

Ironically, Halloween became (and still is) my favorite holiday, and I was always so fascinated by things that were scary or supernatural or morbid/disgusting. I loved going to Halloween stores as often as possible just to stare at the creepy masks and gross makeup and funny little decorative props. I still do this! The Halloween season is still the most enchanting to me.

[lastgoodbye]

Apr 14, 2010 16:06:12 GMT jadeface said:

I remember spinning a giant spinning top that had like horses or something in it that span around inside when I pushed down the plunger bit. I totally can't explain, but it was red with yellow on, and I was probably 2 or 3.

I had /probably still have this!

[Rhiflect]

Me too. Florence and Jade! I'm loving all these memories, especially Michael's, vultures' and chool's. Chool, i'm so impressed by your memory, that's incredible!

One of my first memories is being in my music class in a village called Wendover. It was run by an overly smiley lady called Penny, and the room was very sunny and bright. I was skipping around with a yellow ribbon attached to a stick (they use them in gymnastics) and singing 'lou, lou, skip to my lou!'.
I also remember a few things from being about 4 in a school i went to for about half a term that I absolutely despised, and flashes of images from my old house (some of which will be compiled from videos, i.e made up). But one i know is real is slamming my fingers in the sap-covered door, and getting in our red car on the green outside.

Oh, childhood <3

[husbandwifeheroin]

I remember going to see Diana's hearse drive by, I threw Dandelions.

[wakefromthysleep]

oh dandelions! I love them. Me and my cousin often slit them and then threw them in our pool so that they curled up. A good game in summer.