“Oh my God, I can’t believe my eyes,” says 6-year-old Brooklyn in a sweet video that captured the moment her parents surprised her with a kitten in a gift bag for her birthday. 

The birthday girl snuggles the little ball of orange and white fur while thanking her mom profusely.

https://youtu.be/iB_3FV6dYT0

According to the YouTube post from May, Brooklyn’s family had two senior cats who’d passed away recently, and she’d been begging for a kitten for her birthday. They had said no, but her mom works in a veterinary hospital and had helped a Persian cat through an emergency C-section. Two of her kittens survived, but one had a weak heart. Brooklyn’s mom thought her family could give him the care he needed.

A later update stated that the kitten, who was 8 weeks old on Brooklyn’s birthday, is now a healthy boy, and has a name: Max McTavish.