My Earliest Memory ...& thoughts on it now

In a discussion with my Mom this summer, I discovered that my earliest memory was when I was two. I really think I was two, isn't that early to actually remember something? My mom thought so too and was amazed. But I do remember. I remember being over at a neighbors house, with a little girl I used to play with, Janie. Now I had forgot her name, but Mom helped me with that one. We were playing Colorforms and I had this little navy blue rectangular cubed shaped suitcase (I know there is a proper name for it but it escapes me at the moment, if I recall it, I'll edit it back in) that housed my toys that I'd brought with me. I can remember walking through the yard or yards, as I don't recall just how many houses I was away from home. I was two afterall. But back to Colorforms, remember those? Those plastic-y vinyl cling forms that were so fun to peel off and put on a scene or in my case a doll to dress. They had such a distinct smell. I loved that smell! I bet right now in a blind smell test I could pick out Colorforms over other toys'smells. And why is it that certain smells can take you back to your childhood in an instant, transporting one back to decades earlier of more carefree times? Very interesting how that whole olfactory sense works in the brain! And so that's about it for that memory. I do wonder now "why would a two year old be allowed to go play at another friends house" which seemed unsupervised at that time? Perhaps it is in the details where my mind is a little foggy. Maybe it had to do with the fact that I was very independent and capable even at a young age. Oh and I still have that little suitcase by the way, it's up on our garage shelf with contents unknown to me at the moment. And I do still have the top of that Colorforms box packed in my childhood belongings tote. If only it smelled the way it did...