Hoda Kotb’s final day on TODAY may be the second biggest event in her family this week.
On the Jan. 9 episode of TODAY with Hoda & Jenna, Hoda announced that her daughter Haley just turned 8.
“Today also happens to be, which is really the big celebration, my daughter Haley’s birthday,” she said.
“Valentine’s Day is the day that we got her. It’s like the ‘gotcha day,’ but her birthday birthday is today, and so we decorated the house and made a huge surprise first, so that when she woke up, she was like, ‘Woo, what’s going on here?’” she said as video of Haley walking down a set of stairs in their home, decorated with streamers and balloons, played.
“So it was fun. She got to walk. I taped up all this stuff, and literally, I did it last night. In the morning, it all fell down,” she joked.
Hoda said putting the decorations out wasn’t that hard.
“All you need, I realize, is one of those $10 party lights, you know, those ones?” she said.
“Whoever invented that was a genius,” Jenna Bush Hager said.
Hoda, who also has daughter Hope, 5, then said she added one other touch.
“And a few balloons, and it’s over,” she said.
Jenna was blown away by the job Hoda did in decorating her home.
“You make the world so magical for your girls,” she said. “They get to have you, and you make the world so magical. That looks like magic. And you did that, even though it’s your last week at the TODAY Show, you’re running on fumes, everything is hard, you still made it magical for your (daughters).”
The birthday celebration continues for Haley. Hoda said they’re going bowling tonight as they mark her big day.