Friday, February 29, 2008

happy leap day


It's February 29th!!
My girls found this little guy sitting in their cereal bowl{before the cereal} this morning. Happy Leap Day!! We only get to have this day every four years!!

I hadn't thought too much about Leap Day until I went to Kristi's blog last night and she had frogs and things about Leap Day. So I thought I better get our little frogs out of the toy bucket and tell the girls "Happy Leap Day".

Brenna will find a little froggy in her lunch today at school too. Emma Grace would have found one in her lunch but she is on a new kick of buying her lunch at school which is a really nice break for me!

This is why we have an extra day in the calendar every four years:
Leap years are needed to keep our calendar in alignment with the earth's revolutions around the sun. Using a calendar with 365 days every year would result in a loss of 0.2422 days, or almost six hours per year.

2 comments:

Janell said...

What a CUTE idea! Maybe next Leap Year I'll have my own 'littles' and use this idea. Keep prayin! :)
-jd

The Fears said...

Very cute. I guess not looking at a calendar throws me off. Reading your blog however cleared the confusion of why my watch is a day ahead!! So thanks for helping me solve this mystery. next time i will look at a calendar every now and then.