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popeye1250 -> Your Earliest Childhood Memories. (7/25/2006 8:17:29 PM)
This is always a fun one. I can remember being a small boy and hearing a "WOOOOOooo, Wooooooooooo" outside my window at night. I remember running into the kitchen and saying something like; "Mummy, there's a ghost outside my window" or something like that. I can remember my mother telling me, "Oh don't worry Timmy, that's just the choo choo train!" We lived about a half mile away from the train tracks. It must have been in 1953 or there abouts and it was right at the end of the line for those old steam engines on the Boston & Maine railroad. As I remember it they made a hauntingly beautiful sound at night! "WOOOOO,....Wooooooooooooo....."

mistoferin -> RE: Your Earliest Childhood Memories. (7/25/2006 8:22:46 PM)
My earliest clear childhood memory is of a light fixture in my bedroom. Every night I would say "Good Night Mr. Light" when my mother was leaving the room after tucking me in. She would then turn off the light. I remember the fixture in fine detail. When I told my mother this she said it was impossible that I remembered that light. When I asked why she said they moved out of that apartment just a few weeks after my 1st birthday. She was amazed. I can close my eyes and see that thing still today.

Arpig -> RE: Your Earliest Childhood Memories. (7/25/2006 10:07:46 PM)
Myfirst memory was from when I was about 3. My father came home and asked everybody "If you could live anywhere in the world where would you want to live?" My brothers & sister all gave their answers (don't remember what they said), and I said "The North Pole" (I believed in Santa back then...before I had unmentionables and discovered that I was Santa). My father then announced that we were going to go live in India (which nobody had mentioned), and I said "Not me, I'm going to the North Pole, have a good time"

TheShadows -> RE: Your Earliest Childhood Memories. (7/25/2006 10:41:52 PM)
My earliest childhood memory is of my brother nearly chopping off my left thumb by slamming it in the bathroom door around the age of 2. I still have the scar to this day. MrsShadows

SavageFaerie -> RE: Your Earliest Childhood Memories. (7/25/2006 10:49:09 PM)
My first memory was of the Mayan Pyramids. My parents and grandfather took me and my brother when I was 3 and the pyramids are burned into my brain....there was one with smaller fixed steps so you could go to the top and my grandfather carried me all the way up. I also remember on the same trip in a small Mexican village a donkey that loved to drink coke, back when they were still in the tall green bottles. There are other things from that trip that are not a clear in my head...but that is my first memory

ownedgirlie -> RE: Your Earliest Childhood Memories. (7/25/2006 11:24:28 PM)
I have a memory of sitting in a high chair, being fed baby food. And I remember being potty trained.

SusanofO -> RE: Your Earliest Childhood Memories. (7/26/2006 12:36:38 AM)
I was about 18 months old (or so my mother said). There was a large brwon bat in my room (don't know how it got there). But I had just learned what birds were, and I pointed to it and kept saying: "Bird! Bird!". I was so excited there was a bird in my room! Meanwhile, my father was running around with a broom, trying to swat in out of thye room LOL! [:D] - Susan

irishbynature -> RE: Your Earliest Childhood Memories. (7/26/2006 1:50:28 AM)
My earliest memory was of my father trying to put me on Santa's lap...i screamed out of shear terror![:)] I think I was about 2?

acissej -> RE: Your Earliest Childhood Memories. (7/26/2006 3:40:08 AM)
I was about 20 months old and I think it was the Christening party for my baby sister. I just remember sitting in the corner all alone, playing with my blocks, while everyone was fawning over my sister. Until she came along, I was an only child and used to having all the attention, so I was incredibly jealous of her. After that, I don't remember much until I was three and a half, and my other sister was on the way.

RavenMuse -> RE: Your Earliest Childhood Memories. (7/26/2006 3:44:28 AM)
Heading to the corner shop with a big old pre-decimalisation penny filling my hand with which to buy a bag of sweets. I would have been around 18 months to 2 years old.

peterK50 -> RE: Your Earliest Childhood Memories. (7/26/2006 5:44:03 AM)
My 4th Birthday sitting at the kitchen table as my mother gave me a bowl of cereal saying "Now you're four, three is all gone", & me being upset by the idea.

sub4hire -> RE: Your Earliest Childhood Memories. (7/26/2006 7:47:18 AM)
Amazingly I remember quite a bit of when I was a child. I remember the night our pet monkey passed away. Dad kept feeding him rum, cookie always did like drinking the alcohol...I guess it soothed him or something. He died of old age. I remember my sister and the kid next door used to shut the bedroom door at night, turn off all the lights and wait until their faces would glow. Then say the devil was in them. I remember them shaking their heads to that "hair" song. I remember my sister teaching me to skate when I was two years old, we lived at the top of a hill. She sent me down that hill...I remember grabbing the stop light at the bottom to save my life. All trust was blown after that incident. I remember feeding our horse carrots. So many...too many to name.

popeye1250 -> RE: Your Earliest Childhood Memories. (7/26/2006 10:32:11 AM)
Thanks, these are great! Another very early memory I have is almost like a picture in my head, a painting as it were. We were having a Hurricane and my father was off to work in the morning to his job as a Firefighter. I looked out the window and it was just like a snapshot, my father in his uniform hat and firecoat leaning into the wind holding his hat on with his left hand, a very gray day, very vivid picture for some reason! My father was a very funny guy too, he had that "Irish" sense of humor. There was a lady in the neighborhood who he didn't like for some reason, "Gertrude". We had a big pig out back in a shed in those days I don't know where it came from, I still have the picture. The pig's name, "Gertrude."

SusanofO -> RE: Your Earliest Childhood Memories. (7/26/2006 11:16:49 AM)
Funny you should mention being jealous of a baby sister. My mother told me she and my dad had been trying to teach me and get me to walk, as I was already over a year old and not doing much excpet scooting around the floors on my butt. The day of my little sister's baptism, though, apparently I was so jealous of all the attention being paid to her that I guess I suddenly stood up, without anyone expecting it or cajoling it out of me, and walked clear across an almost 25 foot room alone, without holding anyone's hand. Jealousy is apperently a great motivator for some siblings! - Susan

LotusSong -> RE: Your Earliest Childhood Memories. (7/26/2006 11:19:57 AM)
My very FIRST memory? It was dark and moist. I began to feel tightness and a feeling of being shoved down a tunnel.. Then there was a bright light with a lot of screaming and commotion... Now seriously folks: Strangely enough I remember standing at the toilet, my mother saying (yes, I do remember it), “I don’t care if you are WALKING DOWN THE AISLE and STILL not Potty Trained. I GIVE UP”. I evidently got the point because from that moment on I don’t recall any other upsets J I was potty trained at gun-point.

Master96 -> RE: Your Earliest Childhood Memories. (7/26/2006 11:55:09 AM)
The first time I walked….. I just stand up, and ran across the room. My mother still amazed by that…..lol Master96,

popeye1250 -> RE: Your Earliest Childhood Memories. (7/26/2006 12:34:30 PM)
Wow! These are great memories Everyone! Keep them comming.

windchymes -> RE: Your Earliest Childhood Memories. (7/26/2006 1:31:33 PM)
I have vivid memories of my mom pinning me down on the floor and putting nose drops up my nose when I was sick, and me screaming bloody murder because I hated nose drops so much, lol. I remember the fuzzy sleeper jammies I was wearing. I couldn't have been more than two.

ArtimisBlack -> RE: Your Earliest Childhood Memories. (7/26/2006 1:53:45 PM)
I remember the first time I got out of my crib. I was about a year old I guess, maybe less. I remember looking up at the bars and grabbing on to them. The bright yellow the walls were. I remember trying to jump over the bars and then realizing it wasn't going to work. Then I devised a plan where I would climb them at an angle so I could brace myself against them and not slide down. Amazingly enough, this worked. Next thing I knew, I was up and over, then on my butt, surprised that it didn't hurt that much and an enormous pair of feet with red toenails was coming toward me......

TNstepsout -> RE: Your Earliest Childhood Memories. (7/26/2006 2:11:56 PM)
Hey this is a fun thread. One of my earliest memories I was about 2/1/2 and I had a friend visiting that was the same age as me. We had taken two of my mother's hand mirrors off her dresser and we were looking at ourselves in them and running through the house. My mother fussed at me "stop running with the mirrors, you're going to break it". Well about 10 seconds after she said that, down I went and the mirror broke. I was so astonished. How did she know what was going to happen? I remember thinking that potatoe chips were made out of pickles because we always ate Ruffles and they had the same kind of ridges that pickle slices had. I remember thinking that dogs and cats were the same species just different sexes. Dogs were boys and cats were girls.

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