Two Tennessee waitresses just went above and beyond to make a 4 year-old boy feel special on his birthday.

Back in July, Shatika Dixon took her son, Octavius Mitchell Jr., to Texas Roadhouse to celebrate his fourth birthday. The steakhouse has a tradition in which customers celebrating their birthdays sit on a saddle while the servers wish them a happy birthday.

“He loves animals so he was so excited about getting to sit on this and (have) all the attention on him,” Shatika explained.

As the servers helped Octavius onto the saddle, one waitress noticed that Shatika was using sign language to communicate with her son.

“I’m sitting there and I’m watching from a distance, and the mom is signing to the little boy which I noticed he had his hearing aids,” said Kathryn Marasco, a server at Texas Roadhouse.

Kathryn went to her fellow waitress Brandi White and asked if she knew how to say “happy birthday” in sign language. Though she said that she did not, she happens to be a student studying Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, and she wanted to help the little boy have a special birthday. Brandi pulled up a YouTube video so that she could learn how to sign it with Kathryn.

“She comes up to me and says, ‘Kat, Kat. I found a YouTube video of how to sign happy birthday.’ So we’re sitting down next to each other,” Kathryn said. “It took us two seconds to learn it.”

Shatika was overcome with emotion when she saw the two waitresses sign happy birthday to her son.

“Everybody thinks we’re crazy when we’re out talking and we’re signing. So it’s really important to me that someone noticed that and picked up on that and made that special just for him, my baby,” she said.

Kathryn said that she wants all her customers to feel comfortable.

“As a server, I want you to be able to come in, I want (you) to be like, ‘Oh this is my home, I belong here,'” she said.

You can watch these waitresses sign in the video below!