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[whoSEZ]

My earliest memory is ___________________________.

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My answer: It's bizarre, but my earliest memory is waking up in the middle of surgery on my ear. I remember my seeing the stainless steel bowl-shaped lights overhead, my arms out to the sides, and hearing a nurse say, "Doctor, she's..." [Coming out of it? Something like that.] He responded with something like, "Give her [whatever dosage of whatever drug]" and I went right back under. Bizarre. I think I was 3 or 4 years old.

[Belle*]

My earliest memory is of when my Mom was in the hospital having my sister. I was VERY sick (Scarlet Fever or something like that I think?) so family members were taking turns staying with me while my Mom was in the hospital. I remember my Uncle playing Little People on the sofa with me and my grandmother letting me sit on her lap while she made the my racecars go aorund the track so I could watch. I was three.

[simbarel]

Always a late bloomer, I was old enough to remember my mother trying to move my crib into my new room. I LOVED that crib, but my mother was getting so frustrated trying to get it through the door that she kicked it, and kicked a hole right through it. I cried, and cried, and cried...

Then my parents gave me the only spare bed they had, which was a queen. I felt like a queen going from a crib to a queen, and my mother even found this very little-girly comforter that was the right size, which was evidently a difficult find in the '70s.

[Cheeser]

I remember sitting on my dad's lap on an airplane holding my Mickey Mouse and asking my Dad when we were gonna get to Disneyland...I was 3 or 4...and my Dad would just smile at me and kiss me on the forehead.

[loobyoxlip]

Oh my gosh, I can't believe you guys remember things from so early on. I first remember my kindergarten teacher yelling at one of the girls for going in the boys bathroom. She wasn't the greatest teacher. I also remember getting stuck in the bathroom at church daycare. They actually had to cut the door open with an ax. I was told to crouch in the corner by the toilet so I was far away from the door. Apparantly I just couldn't unlock the door or something It was a very old heavy wooden door, too

[GoofyMom]

I think my earliest memory is when I had one of those really serious flu's from 1968 or 69. Hong Kong Flu or Swine Flu. I was 4 or 5 and developed pneumonia as a complication. I remember Mom talking on the phone to the hospital and trying to set me into the kitchen sink full of ice and cold water to reduce my fever, then them bundling me up in blankets to rush me to the hospital. Fortunately, I survived. I can also remember sneaking out of the oxygen tent in the middle of the night, and I made it to the front doors of the hospital before a nurse caught me. Apparently I had decided to go home!

The other earliest memory I have is also a medical emergency one: Mom kept the baby aspirin on the top of the fridge. I liked the taste of baby aspirin, so I climbed up on a chair, then onto the counter beside the fridge and downed the whole bottle. I remember snippets of laying on a hospital gurney while the doctor pumped my stomach.

I must have been quite a worry to my parents when I was little!

[joyjoy]

My earliest memory is crawling under our house with my sister looking for a cat that had had kittens. Given the particular house, I had to have been 2 years old, almost 3. Wow.

[luvnwdwgal]

My earliest memory is when I was probably around 4 riding a pony at the fair, and it leaned it's head down to eat something off the ground and I fell off. I remember a man snatching me off the ground from underneath the pony. I have never gotten on a horse since.

[LilMarcieMouse]

My earliest memory is <font color="blue">I can rememeber standing up in my crib and my brother looking at me </font> .

[Teresa]

I remember walking my older sister to kindergarten - mom had to work, and T.A. would forget how to get home, so mom put stickers on the clock to tell me what time to leave,and I would go get sis. (she's very brilliant, just ditzy about ordinary things)
I was 3 1/2

[chezp]

My earliest memory is sitting under the sideboard in our lounge, chewing on the wooden leg of the sideboard and my mum hauling me away from it - she still has it and it still has my teeth marks on it. I think I was teething at the time!

[MegglesMom]

Awesome question! I was three years old, and I was tap dancing half naked around the kitchen. I also have the pictures to prove it...

[Chrissi]

My earliest memory is the sound of my Strawberry Shortcake rollerskates on the linoleum "fake brick" floor of the kitchen in my parents' first home. I think I was three. I raced around the kitchen in those skates, in circles, around the kitchen table until I was nauseous and dizzy. I remember going so fast that I had to run into my mom's leg to stop once. She put a stop to kitchen-skating when I skated through the open basement door and, fortunately, into my dad at the top of the steps.

[rescuesk]

My earliest memory is riding to the beach in the back of my parents car, a 1953 green Chevy, and standing up (no car seat laws in the early 60's) to see out the front window. They sold that car in late 1963, so I was 3!

Sue