How the birthday sneak attack became a tradition for this Edmonton family

Every family has different birthday traditions. In the Latorre family, you get woken up at the crack of dawn by your mom, dad, brothers and sisters and maybe even a family friend as they all sing happy birthday as loud as they can, with a candle in a piece of toast or whatever else they're able to put together.

The Latorres call this the ''early morning birthday wake-up," but we're calling it a 'birthday sneak attack.'

The tradition started when Cecilia was a little girl. It was something her parents did for her and something she knew she wanted to do when she had a family of her own.

Latorre is unequivocally not a early riser, but that doesn't stop her from setting her alarm for the wee hours of the morning when it's someone's birthday.

"Somehow the notion of putting an alarm on and waking up early for my babies, that's what I want to do," she said.

"I want to show them 'This is for you, I love you and this is your day.'"

In the video below, you can see a classic 'birthday sneak attack' for Maite Latorre's 18th birthday.

Click the link to listen to Cecilia Latorre describe her family's tradition.