How do you forget an elephant?

[jbeany]

I'm moving soon, so I'm sorting junk, hoping to lighten my load a bit by getting rid of things I don't need anymore.  Everything is up for debate - I'm channeling that Peter Walsh guy from the Clean Sweep shows.  I spent my packing time today sorting thru a box of photos.  Anything blurry, or otherwise unrecognizable went in the trash, along with unneeded duplicates and all those kid pics I get at Christmas time from relatives I never see anyhow.  In the middle of a stack of misc. photos that my gram gave me, I found a pic of myself and my older sister, crammed together with a bunch of other kids - on top of an elephant.  A real elephant.  I figure it was the trip we took to Busch Gardens when I was 3.  I do remember a bit of that trip - being mad about not being able to see out the window of the monorail at Disney comes to mind easily.  The elephant, however, apparently didn't register at all!  How do you forget riding around on an elephant?

My earliest memory is from when I was 2 - I had pneumonia, and the nurses pinned me down in a steel-barred crib and piled ice on me to bring my fever down.  That, I remember. Brrrr!

What's the earliest thing you remember?

[Wenchie58]

  My earliest memories all revolve around childhood illness.  I remember having the measles when I was three...I think I only remember it because I had to wear sunglasses any time it was daylight and I thought I was a movie star. The glasses made it all ok. Had my kidney removed when I was four, the main thing I recall about that was waking up after surgery and they had me tied down to the steel crib....I'm STILL anxious about getting trapped.
  Dang I miss those glasses!

[Bill Peckham]

Which one is you in the picture? I think my earliest memory is getting in trouble for drawing on the walls.

If you didn't want me to draw on the walls why did you leave a pencil lying around Mom?

[G-Ma]

I was almost 2 and had Pneumonia, high fever.  I was standing in my crib watching the rocking chair flying around the room.  Mom and dad took me to one of the "old" women in town who piled grease and stuff on my chest.  The rocking chair has always stayed a vivid memory.

[rose1999]

I see a theme here because my earliest memory is pneumonia too - then I had whooping cough a few months later!!  But how could you forget an elephant 

[G-Ma]

I know, I'm still trying to process that one.

[twirl]

I thought this would be an elephant joke   

I remember being in a crib with my twin sister and I wet the bed -- I was trying to change pants with her and put her on the wet side ---
is there any wonder why she will not give me a kidney ---- I was very young - still young enough to fit in a crib with a twin ---

how do you forget an elephant------- delete his number from your cell phone 

[jbeany]

Which one is you in the picture?

I'm second from the front in the white shirt, with my sister right behind me, also in white.  We both have identical hair color.

[paris]

Jbeany, I have a picture of my son, Todd, at age three riding on an elephant named "Mim" at Busch Gardens, Florida.   He doesn't remember it either!!  It would have been 1973.

My earliest memory is visiting my baby sister in a "special house". I was two when she was born and she died at age 6 months.  It has only been in the past few years that someone believed me.  I could describe the outside, the room she was in and the lady who took care of her.   It seems to be the emotional, traumatic events we remember.

[pelagia]

I have one memory of my grandfather from the only time I met him.  I was very young, maybe three and it is a very blurry memory.  Sometimes I think I imagined it, but in my mind's eye I can see him sitting on a couch that I know we owned.  There are no photos of him on that couch so I think it must be a real memory.

[Bajanne]

The earliest specific memory that I have was at 4.  My sister Arlene was leaving to go to England to become a nurse.  Those days (1954), travel to the UK was by a ship. At the dock, I remember I was given a chocolate bar.  I threw the wrapper into the sea (not so environmentally conscious those days!) and told my brother that if it didn't sink, it would mean that my sister's ship would get to UK safely.  All the time we were there, the wrapper kept afloat!!
By the way, my sister still has her autograph book from those days (remember those?) and I wrote in it "Love Jesus".