What is your earliest memory?

[Srbo]

I`m reading " The Story of Edgar Sawtelle " right now and there is a chapter devoted to his earliest memories, so I thought I would ask my friends here what yours is.

My parents ( well, now only my mom, since dad passed away ) say it is absolutley impossible for me to remember this, but I do remember it - vividly.
My father was carrying me over a cornfield, it was a very, very sunny day, and I was shifting a bit left and right in his arms and while that was happening, the comforter ( nipple, sucking bag ) I had in my mouth fell out my mouth into the field.
I remember looking after it while it was falling towards the ground and I also remember my father looking for it frantically ( since I was crying hysterically ) - and not finding it!
I believe that I can remember that because it was a really big shock for me, but my parents refuse to believe that.
Reason being simple - I was only 8 months old.
There are a lot of other details I remember connected to that event as well, but I don`t won`t to make the post to long.
A lot of times I have been told that I have almost a photgraphic memory, since I can remember impossible things, from very early on in my childhood and then events throughout my whole life.
And, for me, that is a curse, rather than a blessing.
There were and are many days and nights when I pray for one thing and one thing only - to forget.
But it is not happening.

So, what`s your earliest memory/memories?

[MadamMack]

Running from my stepfather.

[Srbo]

Running from my stepfather.

That is not a good first memory at all. Not at all.
*shudders*
Sorry to hear that.

[Algernon]

Stepping on a board accidentally, with a four-inch nail attached to it, and looking down at the bloody horror of a nail protruding through the top of my bare foot. I think I was 4 or 5 at the time, but THAT got my attention! (As well as a tetanus shot).

[catnoel]

I think it was when I first realized I existed. I was 3 and sitting in my backyard in the Spring in Mass, Fort Devens. It was sunny and I was sitting down enjoying the flowers. I remember thinking " I am here".

[MadamMack]

My first loving memory is of me riding my dog which was a collie. She looked like Lassie and I called her Boy. I was only about five and she was my best friend. I loved that dog so much because my grandpa gave her to me. My grandpa loved me a lot.

My first heart breaking memory was watching her run behind the truck on the day we moved away.

[danie]

I was three years old and my mother was holding me on her hip. We were staring at a fire in the woods behind our house that was dangerously close. They did end up putting it out. The main thing that stands out in that first memory is that I was wearing red rubber boots.

[kittykiller]

I look back and find my self about 3or4 and am geting a bath with my bros when my middel bro stands on the side of the tub to grab the shower rack to do somthing and fell needless to say he split his head and there was blood all over the floor. and dad picked him up to comfort him but didnt take him to a Dr he just grabed the supper glue frome a drawer in the kitchen and put it on the cut and pinched it shut for a while. That is a mesed up thing right?

[~Ally~]

I was two and a half (?) and my mother bought me these very cool gray suede ankle boots with a little heel on them. I demanded them, I had older sisters I wanted to imitate, so she gave in and bought them. I had only worn them for five minutes and we were walking to the shop when it started pouring down with rain so I threw a great big hissy fit/temper tantrum because my new boots were ruined. I remember thinking "God must really hate me."
Damn, even at that age I was throwing pity parties for myself.

[mustangclaire]

I remember nicking a bourbon biscuit from the biscuit tin and getting found out cos i left chocolate cream on the handle of the living room door