Makes sense, but why only isolated incidents of mundane activities? Why not a lot more than you typically hear about or personally remember?

It just seems strange how a person can, for example, remember drinking from a red cup and not remember eating from a blue plate when both experiences may be equally mundane in an adult's perspective, but significant in a child's.
I just use that example as a comparison to the memory patterns you see and how they seem randomly selective.

It's interesting.

I have a lot of memories that I'm not sure actually happened or were dreamt. I remember my dreams very well and still remember childhood dreams I've had, but they're just as blurry now as the memories, so I'm always in a position that causes me to challenge whether half my childhood memories ever really happened to begin with.

Me too. I don't know if the things i remember from that far back are real or just dreams. I also don't really remember anything between the ages of 5-7 other than experiences at school. Weird.

The earliest memory I have actually wasn't all that mundane. I remember running to the laundry room to talk to my mom, where there's a step going down, and accidentally stepping on my 1 year old sister's head. I guess I must have been a little over 3 at the time.

Freebase Dali makes a good point though, besides that the things I remember are things like banging on a little toy drum we had, watching Sesame Street, eating brown sugar cinnamon Pop-Tarts, and sitting in the backyard. These aren't things that you would think would be particularly memorable.

I was trying to get my cat to eat his cat food so I crawled in and ate some to show that it tasted good. That's the logic of a 2 year old.. or 1? I really don't know. I just know I had a blue shirt on and a diaper and couldn't walk.

It was my 3rd Birthday (so I was exactly 3 years old obviously) and my mum was telling me to stand up on a chair to blow out my candles.

Oh, and I was wearing red jeans.

Christmas 1989. I was 3 years old. I remember my father carrying me from bed to the Christmas tree where my baby brother was already opening gifts.

3 seems to be the magic number here eh?

Earliest I can remember is 3 or 4, running to jump on my dad who was laying on the couch. I busted my lip on the button of his shirt. It was one of those pearl snap shirts.

I also have vague memories of rubbing my parents vinyl records against the textured wall in our apartment. Would have to have been around 4/5 then. Needless to say, they were not pleasantly surprised when they went to play those.

From what I know, studies have showed that at 3 years, the baby develops his longterm memory.

Of course, it differs from a person to another, but I alway found it curious how the first thing I remember was exactly after three years from my birth. (as the studies had shown I mean)

I remember my parents telling me how when I was really young (too little to remember doing this), I was outside and was playing when I eventually made my way into my neighbor's backyard. I then had to take a piss, so being a little kid, I just dropped my pants and pissed. I didn't realize I was pissing on large backyard Jesus statue. They are a really religious family, so ever since then, they sort of hated me and my family... I look back on it and laugh.