BEHS student marks ‘Sweet 16’ on Leap Day

Starting in her early 20s, she has been collecting leap year memorabilia, including pins from the 1930s and ’40s, and penny postcards from 1904, 1908 and 1912.

Typically, they celebrate both on the day closest to a weekend and each sister gets her own cake and special meal choices for the day.

Those who are born on February 29 are called “leaplings” or “leapers” and in some countries when it is not a leap year, they celebrate their birthday on February 28 or on March 1.

‘It’s even confused me this year!’

“I remember talking to him about this, like ‘How could you do that?’ and me asking my mom, ‘How could you let him?’ But she said, ‘Well, I trusted him'”.

Staying with the connection between movies and leap years, in the 2010 movie Leap Year Amy Adams decides to take the bull by the horns and propose to her long-time boyfriend in Dublin, taking advantage of an Irish tradition dating back to the fifth century which permits ladies to propose to their beaus on the 366th day of the year.

OK, this week I have a riddle for you. “If we have to go by the Leap Year, I think I should be nine years old now”.

He plans on spending his special day skiing for free at Bear Mountain and then finishing it off with a nice dinner with family.

Among the biggest challenges his society’s members face, said Brouwer, is a lack of awareness about leap years. So, depending on how you look at it, the children will celebrate their third, second and first birthdays this year.

Despite that, her parents always made a big deal on her leap year birthdays, though she definitely got a celebration every year.

February 29th, Leap Day – one of the most curious quirks of the widely-used Gregorian Calendar. I chose the last Sunday because I was born on a Sunday.

February 29 is a special birthday.

Every leap year, the website gets busier. “For that reason 1900 wasn’t a leap year but 2000 was”.

“It’s really cool that out of all the days of the year, I was born on February 29”, she said. “Every four years it’s like that”, said Brouwer, reached Sunday in San Diego, Calif.

What if you could only celebrate your real birthday once every four years?

The girls are celebrating with a joint party with their friends.

Brenda Wilfong will celebrate her 17th birthday this Leap Year. Since an extra 24 hours accumulates every four years, an extra calendar day, February 29, was added every four years by Roman General Julius Caesar over 2,000 years ago to keep the calendar balanced with the sun’s position, according to timeanddate.com.

Leap Year is on Monday and did you know that we have a few “Leap Year” babies right here in Jefferson County? I also think if we colonize other planets we’ll want a calendar system that’s more suited to that particular planet.

Gregory Urban, chief operating officer for the Maryland Department of Information and Technology, said that modern systems should no longer have problems processing the leap year. I love him to bits.

For example, Brouwer said he has had an ongoing struggle with his insurance company, whose computer software doesn’t support the day.

Sometimes it’s as small as not being able to select our birth date from a drop-down menu online-or those several years when Facebook didn’t acknowledge we had a birthday.

“When I turned 21, I wanted to celebrate it on the 28th, but that didn’t fly”, Angelo said.

FRANKIE Bunbury has had only two birthdays but is eight years old today.