GTKY Wednesday 6/13: First Childhood Memory

meggyme · June 2018

What is the first thing that you can remember?

meri-mac · June 2018

Can you tell I am bored this morning? Commenting on all the threads!

I remember my older brother playing on the livingroom floor in his pjs and my mom holding me on her lap. I am unsure if it an actual memory or one developed from a photo that I saw as a kid. I would have been 4 or 5.

ladylinsey · June 2018

I remember my mother, pregnant with my sister (so I must not have even been three). We were in a fountain (you could go in them in Portland, OR where I was born). There were like these...lilypad stones or something that crossed the fountain, and my mom was stuck with one foot on one step and one foot on another. If she moved either way she would have fallen into the water. I remember her saying "well, now I am in a pickle." I only remember this because I had to ask what it could possible mean to be IN a pickle.

LJMoon6 · June 2018

The very first thing I remember was when I was 3. I walked into the bathroom and found my mom passed out in front of the toilet. There was blood everywhere. She had just gotten home from the hospital after having my brother and was hemorrhaging. She’s lucky to still be alive but had to have a complete hysterectomy.

meri-mac · June 2018

@LJMoon6 Holy Hannah! I am glad she is okay. That is a lot for a 3 yo to take in.

meggyme · June 2018

@LJMoon5 wow! That's probably traumatizing. I'm glad she survived, even if it led to her hysterectomy.

My first memory are snippets of the first 2 houses I lived in, just walking around and what they looked like. I was probably 2-3. My first memory with any meaning is of driving with my grandma to the hospital in a torrential downpour when my little sister was born. I was 4.

ladylinsey · June 2018

@LJMoon6 Oh God! I am so glad she is ok. So traumatic!

prpl11butterfly · June 2018

Oh gosh.... I remember living in the appartment my parents had before the house. Little clips of things I did there.

@LJMoon6 that's so scary. Glad she survived

JLaVO888 · June 2018

@LJMoon6 wow that’s quite a first memory to have to hold onto. So glad it had a good ending though.

@meri-mac I’m the same as you... I don’t know if most of my first memories are true or just from photos and stories I’ve heard a million times.

@meggyme It is so crazy you picked this GTKY becuase DH I literally just had this convo on our walk yesterday.

I remember laying on my belly on the step going into the den of my grandma’s house coloring with my grandpa and playing with letter blocks. He passed before I turned 3 so I had to have been younger than that. The blocks make me feel like it’s a real memory becuase I can see the details of them pretty well and I don’t ever recall seeing a photo of the blocks.

third_time_round · June 2018

One of the first momeories I have is when we didn't have enough seatbelts for all of us. We drove on a trip with my brother and I sharing a seatbelt. I was a toddler. @LJMoon6 I'm so sorry! That must have been so terrifying. I'm really glad she was okay.

general_organa · June 2018

I can remember crawling down a hallway with beige carpet and a dim-ish ceiling light in the middle of the ceiling in that hallway. Apparently that was in our first condo, which we moved out of when I was 18 months old. I have another flashbulb memory of drinking water out of a baby bottle with a plastic drop-in bag. I remember I liked reaching my hand inside the bottom of the bottle to play with the bag.

But one of my first memories of an actual event was when I was probably 2.5 or close to 3 and we were walking back up to the showers from the beach. I saw a bee in the sand and I remember thinking to myself "stupid bee", covered it with sand, and then stepped on it. Of course it stung me in my big toe. My mom had no idea what happened but we went up to the showers and stuck my foot in one of my little sand buckets filled with cold water.

Sparty18 · June 2018

My first memory was between 2-3 and all I can visualize is sitting on the front step of our house and throwing my (red?) sippy cup at the door. Wish I remembered why I was mad.

kiki047 · June 2018

@LJMoon6 Oh my goodness, what a traumatizing experience at such a young age.

One of my earliest memories comes with a *TW* (pregnancy complication).

My mom came home from a checkup when she was about 4mo pregnant with my brother and had gotten some bad news. I remember her sitting in our living room bawling because she thought she could lose the baby. It ended up being ok, and my brother turned 28 this year, but that memory stuck with me as it is one of my only memories from before he was born. I would've been around 3 at the time.

thegirlwhowaited_ · June 2018

My first memory was hiding under a yellow and white crocheted blanket my aunt made, behind the recliner in the living room to watch tv after bedtime. I was maybe 2 and my brother was 3. He was always getting me in to trouble.

lillywonderland · June 2018

@LJMoon6, @kiki047 Those are traumatizing memories! I am glad they both turned out okay though.

I have two memories, from when I was somewhere between 2 to 2.5 (not sure which one was earlier). In one I am picking a dead June bug off a tree when we went fishing at a friends house. I also remember the fish being transferred from the bucket to the lake that day.

In the other one, we were at Disney World and were staying in a condo. I remember looking through the slatted doors of one of the bedrooms to the living room/kitchen because I thought slatted doors were weird on a bedroom door.

purplg8r · June 2018

@LJMoon6 wow! How scary to have seen that at such a young age.

My first memory is about a month after my brother was born so i had just turned two. Our dog didn’t do well with him so my parents got rid of her. I remember the little boy who came with his family to get her. He had sandy blonde hair in a bowl cut and glasses. I remember seeing him hugging her then I remember standing at the window next to the door crying because they were taking my dog away.

We tecently talked about this at my parents house and my mom couldn’t believe I remembered it correctly.

luckywife10 · June 2018

Ditto what others said about confusion with an actual memory or one from stories and pictures.

However, I do vividly remember when I was 2 and I was at a county fair with my mom and sister. I remember it was really hot and muggy out and the sky looked odd. My mom was anxious and she kept looking up into the sky. I finally looked up too and there was a funnel cloud (although I didn't know what exactly it was at the time). Then my mom picked me and and grabbed my sister's hand and we ran for shelter with other people. I don't think the funnel cloud ever touched down though, I'll have to ask mom about that day.

spacemountaineer · June 2018

Eating sand out of my sandbox.

Sometime before the age of 3.

quidditchcapn1120 · June 2018

@LJMoon6 That sounds so traumatizing! I’m so sorry! I’m glad she survived and got the care she needed.

quidditchcapn1120 · June 2018

Mine was from around age 3. My parents were fighting loudly (they got divorced shortly after this). I was climbing on a dresser trying to get away from the sounds and it fell over on top of me. My mom came in and picked it up off of me and I was fine. She then packed a suitcase and we went to my great-grandma’s for the night.

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