I remember being excited when my dad came home from work when we lived in Marlborough. We moved to Temple somewhere between my 3rd and 4th birthday. I think my dad say we were among the 1st to move to Temple.
I remember many other little things but I have no clue how old I was in those specs of memory.
i was 3 and jumping up and down on the couch. i slipped and bashed my head on the corner of the coffee table, splitting it wide open smack in the middle of my forehead. next memory is laying down in the back of our station wagon holding a towel to my head as my mother sped to the hospital. i distinctly remember being able to push my finger inside my head, which freaked me the hell out. my next earliest memory is looking at the single, thick stitch on my head in the mirror and poking at it. i still have that scar quite visible on my head
I remember being scared of an old lady 'robot' that sang at the entrance to an amusement park, I was crying and did not want to go near it. My grandmother had to coax me in. I have pictures from that day, and I look to be about 2 to 3 years old. I went back to the amusement park for the only time ever about five years ago and the scary old lady is still there.
I remember chasing chickens, tripping and falling down on a broken beer bottle. I still have the scar on my palm and thinking it was awfully unfair to happen on my second birthday.
Memory is a weird thing, I don't think I actually remember it but I remember remembering it and have made a point of keeping that incident for some reason.
Another time I was put in a crib at a dance (maybe at Campbell River) and after the dance we got on our 40' boat (the Wangaree, from New Zealand I think) and headed up Seymour Narrows back to camp. This was before Ripple Rock was blown up and it was a pretty scary ride for me, with the waves crashing hard into the boat and my brother had to go outside the boat to the prow to guide us through the fog. My dad was probably drunk and my mother was freaking. I got to love the sound of that motor chugging away that night.
My mom was clipping my toe nails and she accidentally clipped to far. My toe started bleeding and she just at me kind of smiling saying "oh no, oh no". I didn't cry until l saw the blood pouring out. l must have been only 2 l believe.
I have a bit of a different one, not so much an individual static memory of an event but rather a memory of a layout of an area.
My father grew up in the Crowsnest Pass in a town called Coleman. My grandmother continued to live in the town until she was 80 years old, shortly before my 2nd birthday. Once or twice a month my family would drive from Calgary down to Coleman to visit her. In 89, my grandmother sold the house and moved to Calgary.
In conversations over the years my parents were always shocked about how I remembered every corner of the house, including colour of carpet, pictures on the wall, etc... A few years ago, my dad found a whole bunch of pictures he had taken of each room of the house when it was sold, wanting to have something to remember his childhood home. I couldn't believe how accurate my memory was.
Thinking about this right now actually made me remember what most likely was my earliest memory. I was sitting on the floor of my grandmother's house while she played bingo on TV. I was given an old card and one of those bingo "dabbers" and just having a great time dabbing and copying my grandmothers motions and shouting out "BINGO" whenever she did.
Getting my tonsils out at 2½ years old, I vividly remember 2 nasty twins in the playpen beside mine trying to pee on me threw the bars and throwing toys at me, and the nurse giving me icecream to soothe my hacked up throat.
10 years later pitching in little league baseball game I beaned both those twins in the head(back to back) when we had a big lead.
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I was two... I remember falling and getting my head stitched up. I can also recall a few things from the first house I grew up in which i moved from when I was two.
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