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Need to ask my kids what they can remember.

I remember a specific playground at a specific drop in day care in flashes because that is where we were dropped off when my mom went to have my baby sister. I was 4 and it was a one time very novel event but I guess it made an impression on me. It was a very fancy playground.

I also remember my normal preschool and one specific singing time learning the song eidel vies or more accurately I was ignoring the teacher and my best childhood girlfriend was teaching me to tie my shoes.

#1 remembers being in the hospital immediately after the birth of #2, which would be age 2-9.

Apparently acquiring new siblings leaves a deep impression on children.

My memory of childhood is quite poor, but I do remember falling backwards out of my highchair (it was a weird old wooden one) at age 2 or so onto the hard wooden floor. I think I actually may have had a mild concussion, because I seem to remember waking up, with my mother screaming. I like to claim that this is when the math was knocked out of my brain.