Seven Childhood Memories

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Taking this challenge from @Maggs224 and @Auntylou. I don't remember much before the age of 9. What I remember I can't necessarily pin an age to. 1. I remember when my parents were away, as they did every year for a convention, we had a "baby" sitter. My brother (4 1/2 years older than me) and I were playing hide and seek with the neighbourhood kids. I was "it". I saw my brother climbing a rod iron fence. I called him out and he yelled out "Hold on!" He walked out from behind the shrubs with torn pants.... and leg. The fence had "spikes" on the top and my brother ripped his leg open on them. He had to be taken to the hospital and received a whole bunch of stitches. It was rather large as his slab of skin was hanging off his leg. 2. I remember my one and only time of being a bully. I still can't believe I was a bully but I remember being mean to this one kid. When I went to her house to call on her older sister (who was my age) her mother said, "Well, if it isn't the street bully." Being called a bully really hit me hard and I was never mean to anyone again. We need more parents like that today. 3. My oldest brother (15 years older) married when I was six. He did visit the house often after he married. I remember running and jumping into his arms when he walked through the door. Sometimes when he comes to me in dreams I run and jump in his arms. 4. I remember summers in the backyard playing Rummy and Crazy Eights with my dad while slurping on homemade chocolate milk shakes. 5. A Christmas I remember is the year we got a ping pong table. Santa didn't wrap our gifts. I got a baby doll under the tree and my brother got a box with ping pong paddles, balls and a net. He said, "What good is this without a table?" He went down to the basement rec room to watch television and I heard him yelling. I went down to see two parts of the ping pong table standing on end. I remember hanging my new baby doll over the top of one of these ends. 6. I remember my older sister (having moved out around the same time my brother got married because she was only a year younger than him and got a job an hour away) coming home on the weekends. I would sleep in the room off the kitchen. She came down one Saturday morning and finding me awake invited me to go to tennis classes with her. She was teaching. My one and only tennis lesson. 7. I remember a surprise birthday party when I was young. There was a dress-up lady tea party type of theme to it. I cried when I was surprised, probably because all these kids were dressed up. I remember sitting on the floor in the main floor powder room crying while pulling on my lady dress-up clothes (Mom's rejects from the tickle trunk). My mother said she would never give a surprise party again (though she did for my father's 80th but it was just people slowly arriving at the house - no "Surprise!") She actually cringed when I told her we had a surprise party for my daughter's 13th birthday. I let her know that Katelyn loved it. That's my seven childhood memories. Who's next?