Leaping for Joy on a Unique Birthday

Lindsay Rivers holding her little sister on her leap year birthday turning 4 years old

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Ashlyn Ownby, Reporter
February 13, 2012
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Happy birthday the crowd yells as the party begins. Sophomore Lindsay Rivers her 16th birthday is “extra special.” Turning 16 on leap day makes her able to celebrate her special day on her actual birthday. The question still remains how many candles go on the cake, 16 or 4? As for Rivers she will be 16 and is excited.

“When I was little, I got ridiculed in school for my birthday. Kids would make fun of me saying I was ‘only two’ or call me a baby. Now it doesn’t really affect me, but it did then,” says Rivers.

For people whose birthdays get to come every year they have different opinions on what they would do if their birthday fell on leap day. Junior Megan Torres says she would do something awesome, like sky diving and getting a bunch of people to write her name in the sky.

Junior Ian Flower says, “I would throw a big party with a bunch of people, it was be awesome.”

For people whose birthdays are on leap day, they celebrate their birthdays February 28th or March 1st. Rivers says she usually celebrates her birthday on the 28th of February. As for the people whose birthdays come every year, Torres and Flower say they would celebrate theirs on the 28th. While Junior Caroline Cripps, would celebrate hers on the 1st of March.

“I would celebrate my birthday on March 1st so it would be closer to my sister’s birthday, so we could celebrate it together.”

Having a birthday on leap days is different from most.

“My birthday is different because the actual day only comes every four years. It makes celebrating a little bit different because I celebrate it a day early most of the time, but besides that it’s like any other birthday,” says Rivers

According to http://leapyearday.com/content/teachers leap year babies will never have a “Golden Birthday.” A Golden Birthday is when your age matches the day you were born. If leap year babies ever want the chance to have a “Golden Birthday” they would have to be 116 before they turn 29 on the 29^th of February.

“It’s really not much different than any other birthday it doesn’t feel any different on the years I don’t have a birthday. It makes the years I get to celebrate it on the 29^th a lot more special,” says Rivers.