Please do not ask for gifts. It isn't polite.
If people want to send a gift to you, they are able to, but it is completely their choice.
A birthday that you make a thread about can be yours or your Webkinz's.
If it is your birthday you are talking about, do not post the year you were born. That would be violating the no personal information rule. You never know who can view this site.
Thanks.