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Leaping babies: How children born on Leap Day celebrate their birthdays. Madyson, in yellow, and twin sister Izabelle Mohs were born on the leap year day, and while they will actually be 4 years old, this is the first time their birthday will appear on the calendar.
A leap year is a calendar year containing one additional day added to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year. Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat in a whole number of days, calendars that have the same number of days in each year drift over time with respect to the event that the year is supposed to track. By inserting an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected. A year that is not a leap year is called a common year. For example, in the Gregorian calendar, each leap year has 366 days instead of the usual 365, by extending February to 29 days rather than the common 28.