In my earliest memory, it was my birthday and I was turning three years old. My parents took me out to this Chinese restaurant to celebrate with my cousins and their parents. i don't remember any of the details about dinner, but afterwords I had a cake and blew out the candles. They then gave me presents.
This was probably memorable because it was my birthday so there are strong happy emotions associated with it.
I think that my personality and identity is different from myself in this time period. At the time, I had not yet had that many life experiences so because of that, I am a different person now than I was then.
This is similar to my earliest memory in that our earliest memories are both around the age of 3 and it's of our birthdays. It is also interesting how the cake was the center of both of our memories.
