I've had a few more memories these last few days...

Losing my Mickey Mouse toy on a rare visit to McDonald's, and searching around for it.  We ended up buying another; I was most distressed.  I was, Mum tells me, between 2.5 to 3yo.  So by that age the memories are less daily events, and more one-off occurrances.

Trying to climb out of a cot at my Nana's house (I slept in it till about 3yo, but the difficulty of extracting myself makes me think I was under 2.  I was watching my son do the same thing yesterday and thought of this.

I remember sitting in my high chair at home ~ about 15mo or less, and eating green beans, which I loved.  I don't think I remember this next bit, but the family lore has it that my 5yo sister came in and said, "Eurggh ~ Green beans!"  To which I replied, "Eurgh, Gween beans!" and hurled them at the wall.  Ah, the power of a sibling to change your mind...

Silver horse in the Moonlight

I read this 'letter to the editor' last night in an old edition of  NewScientist (3 Nov, 2012 Australian Edition).  What a lovely, evocative memory:

"I Remember you" 

                                     My autobiographical memories fit the general pattern described 

                                     in your feature (6 Oct, pg 3): I have few before the age of 5 or 6.  

                                     But my wife has many memories before 5 and even one before 1.

                                     In 1980 she recounted for the first time a memory of being held in 

                                     her mother's arms and seeing a silver horse in the moonlight at the

                                     side of their house.

                                          Her 81-year-old mother remembered the 1934 ~ a horseman 

                                     repaying a loan which had saved his house in the depression ~ and

                                     was shocked, declaring: "You were only 10 months old."

                           

I have been trying to recall more of my early memories, I know I have more.  But they are elusive when you try.  They only seem to appear for me spontaneously when I am watching my son, or thinking of something else.  If I actively try to remember them, my memory hits the usual 3-4yo cerebral brick wall.