@dirtdorphins,
Some people would have a hard time believing that a 2 1/2 year old can remember things, but
as my own brother remembered playing in the sand next to the kitchen door.
As he was getting ready for school one day, he told this memory to his parents (I wasn't born yet). My parents were amazed because the sand in this memory was at the house in Florida where they were living when he was very small. My mother remembered the sand as she could not plant flowers in that sand and longed for a garden like her parents had.