At the age of 5, Bethany Maynard-Moody is halfway through her freshman year at Kansas University.

Brandon Athey is only 4, but he is already in high school.

“I sometimes tell people I’m 5,” Maynard-Moody said. “I think it’s funny.”

Thanks to that bizarre calendar quirk known as Leap Day, Maynard-Moody and Brandon were born on a day, Feb. 29, that shows up on the calendar only once every four years. Sunday was their day to celebrate.

Technically, they can pick from between two ages: their leap year age, or their age in regular calendar years, which for Maynard-Moody is 20 and Brandon is 16.

The two Lawrence residents are among a population of roughly 200,000 people in the United States who were born on Leap Day.

When they were younger, both say, they got more presents on Leap Day. Now, however, they say they don’t usually celebrate any differently than other years.

“We’re going out to eat, to Applebee’s,” Brandon said Sunday. “Then maybe we’ll go see a movie.”

Brandon was more excited about celebrating his Leap Day birthday when he was younger, his mother, Julie Athey, said.

“Now he just wants cash,” she said.

Maynard-Moody was going to celebrate Sunday night with family members at the home of her parents, Steven and Carey Maynard-Moody. It would actually be a double celebration because her father’s birthday was Feb. 27. The main treat was going to be apple cake, mother and daughter said.

Otherwise the family would reflect and remember what other birthdays were like, Carey Maynard-Moody said.

“She was a surprise,” Carey Maynard-Moody said of her daughter’s birth. “She came two months before my 40th birthday. She’s full of surprises.”

Four years from now, there will be at least one new addition to the Leap Day birthday club in Lawrence. By late Sunday night there had been one birth. DeAnna Wahwahsuck, of Lawrence, gave birth to a baby boy, according to announcements from Lawrence Memorial Hospital.