Jenna Bush Hager Promises to 'Hold Down the Fort' as Hoda Kotb Shares Meaning of Daughter's Name

Jenna Bush Hager Promises to 'Hold Down the Fort' as Hoda Kotb Shares Meaning of Daughter's Name "I know the feeling of it not happening for a long time and I feel like sometimes if it's

meant to happen, it will," Hoda Kotb said on Today Tuesday

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GuidelinesPublished on April 16, 2019 03:05PM EDTComments Hoda Kotb could not be more thankful to be a mother of two — but she’s still getting used to the term!

The Today co-host called in to the show on Tuesday morning to spill the news that she had welcomed her second child, daughter Hope Catherine, via adoption, and phoned in once more later in

the show to dish on a few more details about life since she, boyfriend Joel Schiffman and 2-year-old daughter Haley Joy became a family of four.

“They are amazing. I was watching Haley with [Hope] and I didn’t know what that was gonna mean or how it was gonna work,” Kotb, 54, said of the girls’ sibling dynamic. “We walked in, and I

gotta tell you guys, watching Haley with her … she literally wrapped her arms around this little girl.”

“I’m standing in the middle of my living room right now. [Hope]’s sleeping in the bassinet right here next to me and I keep looking, like, ‘She’s right there! She’s wrapped up like a baby

burrito, she’s here!’ It’s the coolest thing ever.”

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