Good Day DU (January 18, 2022)

[EarlG]

Today in History: January 18

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Question of the Day: Do you have any memories before the age of five?

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Today's milestones: Congratulations to the following active DU members!

Anniversaries
Hav (20 years), G_j (19 years), rsdsharp (18 years), NYFlip (17 years), karynnj (17 years), reality1 (16 years), fNord (15 years), honeylady (15 years), secularhumanizer (14 years), SJVDem (13 years), shelshaw (5 years), Ray Bruns (5 years), Hassler (4 years), louseb (3 years), CTMotoXFan (2 years), RonInMN (2 years)

Posting milestones
spike jones (1000 posts), lonely bird (1000 posts), wnylib (10000 posts)

New members who posted for the first time
Paha Sapa, RSherman, speech4free, Rachel M at 6 pm, LENNY0229

[Harker]

1. Plenty.

It's the more recent ones that I'd like to forget.

[dweller]

2. I have memories before 5 yrs

But most at 5 yrs and after …
My grandfather died when I was 5, but I have distinct memories of him, his appearance and interactions with him when my family visited my grandparents.
I also remember peering into a window from outside at a scene of a birthday party being setup, the cake was a train with engine, 1 car and a caboose with chocolate icing and wondering whose birthday it was … it was mine because there are pictures from the party, which I don’t remember happening. But I do remember seeing it being setup beforehand. That was my 4th birthday.
I remember that cake in particular because it had chocolate icing and most of my cakes afterward were Spring themed (April bd) and had dyed green coconut topping for grass … until I finally complained that I didn’t like coconut 😐
To this day I detest coconut 🤨


✌🏻

[pandr32]

3. Yes!

I remembered some fascinating wallpaper on a living room wall and asked my Mom about it. She was floored and said I was around six months old then. When we briefly lived there she put me in an indoor baby swing where I would have been facing it.
That has to be my earliest memory I am aware of.

Congratulations to all today's milestones!

[hedda_foil]

4. I remember quite a bit well before 5.

My most vivid extended memory goes back to no more than 2 years old, but could have happened when I was closer to 18 months. I woke up from a nap in my crib and called for my mother to come get me. There was quite a bit of room around me in the crib. I stood up at the bars, that were around shoulder height and yelled, and then cried for my mom. She didn't come so I sat down and thought about the possibility of scaling the crib bars and getting down myself. It was a long way down and I couldn't figure out how to get myself up to the top bar. And anyway, I clearly remember thinking, I didn't think I could reach the doorknob to open the door. Eventually my mother showed up, of course, and got me out. She had gone to a neighbor's apartment.

I have lots of other memories from around then. One is of riding in my brown wicker stroller and once or twice sitting in the stroller outside a store while my mother went in to get something. (You can tell I'm old from that.) That was in the middle of Chicago, no less.

[electric_blue68]

5. I do...

I remember being Pre-K ?'57 - milk and cookies, nap time, drawing, an indoor wooden slide, and portable see saws outside in nice weather. (We were more upper middle class, when my mom got sick after I was 5 1/2 we became middle middle class)

I have one memory when I was 3 being on a motorboat as a kid on a lake. I have the photo to prove it! It says I'm 3.😁


Congrats to everyone. 👍

[Ohio Joe]

6. Congrats DU'ers

Do you have any memories before the age of five?

Nope.

[nolabear]

7. My earliest is apparently under age one.

I was hospitalized quite a bit as a little kid. My earliest memory is of my mothers father, of standing up in a bed with rails and crying as he receded down a hallway on the other side of a window in a door. I didn’t know specifically what it was until I found out my father was called back from an overseas assignment early because I was sick. My mother and I were staying with her parents. I was near a year old.