Earliest Memory?

I think I was right around 4. I was with my Mom at one of her friends home. Evidently this person was also a friend of my birth father. I was standing on the floor in between my moms knees as she sat in a chair behind me. He walked in to pick something up and she leaned down and whispered in my ear, " Von, sweetie, that's your dad". I remember the whisper and the words but damn..still cant see his face in my mind. And still have never met him.

I was two and in the hospital from being bit by a poisonous spider. I had to have round the clock care. I woke up and was standing in my crib and I saw my daddy laying in a bed across from me. I was so happy to see him and I was YOU came to stay with me. He said he would be there as he was in the hospital also for something that happened to his knee. That is also when we found out I was allergic to penicillin. They almost lost me I guess from the bite and then the penicillin reaction did not help.

My earliest memory is of standing in the garden at my parents on a sunday morning. I know it was sunday because the fish man had just been and I had a big bag of prawns with the shells and heads on. He died when I was 2. I remember that day because my mother wasn't there, so my father was looking after us for the morning and it was the first time that had happened, my mother had never been away before. It was like a light switched on and suddenly I was aware. I looked at my thumb and saw I had a big sore on it from sucking it.

My mother wasn't there because it was the day my little sister was born, and I was 22 months old.

I had my tonsils and adenoids removed when I was 2. I remember being in the hospital and when I first arrived back at home.

I was about 18 months old, in the crib. I was crying but nothing was wrong. I was just awake and wanted my mom. The door was ajar, and the hall light was on. She came in, picked me up, and sat on the rocking chair with me in her lap. My legs were so short! And I was only wearing a diaper. She sang my favorite song over and over - "Whenever I hear the song of a bird." I remember the sound of my voice asking her to, "sing it again, mommy." She'd chuckle and say I was just trying to stay up and not go back to bed. I have no idea how long we sat there with her singing. But I asked her many times to sing it again. I've described the room to my mom, and because of how often we moved given my father's military status, she was able to pinpoint about how old I would have been.

I was a little over 3 and it was the day my brother was born... sitting in the front seat of my babysitters green station wagon with my arms crossed, pouting and saying over and over " I dont want it take it back" I love my brother now though :laugh: :laugh:

Movie Theater December 1982 watching ET (got released in December in Germany where I was living at that time), I was 3, going on 4.

Also, the apartment where we lived in Germany when I was 2-3.

My sister's birth. I remember holding her and giving her right back to my mom. She was whinning even back then...

my parents abusing me because I wanted to wear diapers again because of the new baby. I was only 2. I believe that is when the power struggles started...

I remember climbing out of my crib and walking into the living room. My mom was on the phone and had at the cord stretched from the kitchen all the way to the couch. The 20 ft cord really sticks out in my head for some reason.