How To Insert/format A Date In My DB Table?

Hi. I am sitting here as a newbie programming my first web application.

I have in my tables a column ‘Birthday’ declared as a  smalldatetime (I only want to store year, month and day).
Where Year, Month ans Days are dropdownlist.
 
Inserting the data I use this code:
Dim Birthday As New DateTime(Int32.Parse(Year.SelectedValue), Int32.Parse(Month.SelectedValue), Int32.Parse(Days.SelectedValue))
-and then I use Birthday in my stored procedures.
 
Whan I look into my tabel is ses the value is stored like this: 12.01.1996 00:00:00
This is also the result if I change the column declaration from smalldatetime to DateTime.

Is 12.01.1996 00:00:00 (mm.dd.yyyy) the correct value in my DB. I whould have expecetd dd.mm.yyyy or yyyy.mm.dd ?
 
Please avise.