Leap day birthdays

Jacob Wiegand

Saturday, February 29, 2020

The Southeast Missourian produced a portrait series of local leap day birthday celebrants, sometimes called “leaplings” or “leapers,” using Polaroid Originals and Fujifilm Instax Mini film to emulate snapshots from birthday parties. Editor's note: All uses of "today" refers to Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020.

Leap day birthday celebrants (top row from left) Jerry McClanahan, Logan Hennecke, Payton Foltz (pictured with the dog Ellie May) and Jay Lukefahr; and (bottom row from left) twin sisters Susan Abney and Angie Burnett, Aisha Jones, Cameron Moore and Kim Hodo are pictured in instant-film portraits. (Photos By Jacob Wiegand ~ Southeast Missourian)
Jerry McClanahan, originally of Bell City, Missouri, and now Cape Girardeau, was born leap day 1940 and turns 80 years old today. (Jacob Wiegand ~ Southeast Missourian)
Cameron Moore of Scott City, Missouri, born leap day 2016 and turns 4 years old today. (Jacob Wiegand ~ Southeast Missourian)
Aisha Jones of Cape Girardeau was born leap day 1976 and turns 44 years old today. (Jacob Wiegand ~ Southeast Missourian)

Twin sisters Susan Abney (left) and Angie Burnett, both originally of Scott City, Missouri, and now Chaffee, Missouri, and Cape Girardeau, respectively, were born leap day 1992 and turn 28 years old today. (Jacob Wiegand ~ Southeast Missourian)
Jay Lukefahr of Jackson was born leap day 2012 and turns 8 years old today. (Jacob Wiegand ~ Southeast Missourian)
Payton Foltz of Whitewater was born leap day 2016 and turns 4 years old today. Foltz wanted to take her portrait with the family dog Ellie May. (Jacob Wiegand ~ Southeast Missourian)
Logan Hennecke of Scott City, Missouri, was born leap day 1992 and turns 28 years old today. (Jacob Wiegand ~ Southeast Missourian)
Kim Hodo of Jackson was born leap day 1960 and turns 60 years old today. (Jacob Wiegand ~ Southeast Missourian)