Hoda kotb Receives Early Mother's Day Surprise From Princess Hailey and Hope

On Tuesday, the Today co-host, 57, on Tuesday shared an adorable video of 5-year-old Hailey Joy and 3-year-old Hope Catherine giving her a sweet surprise.

In the video, her daughter - which she shares with ex-fiancé Joel Schiffman - shows Cott descending the stairs of their house, which leads her to a message personally addressed to the author of I Needed This Today.

"If you look ahead, there's a special note going to be on the stairs," Haley says in the video. As the three walked down the stairs, Cott found a note, "Happy Mother's Day, Mom."

"About me?" Cott asked, also waiting for a cup of coffee on the table. "Anything else? What's wrong?"

Hailey and Hope then exploded into song, serenading Kotb with "Happy Mother's Day" to the song "Happy Birthday." On Wednesday's show with Hoda & Jenna, Kotb spoke to the sweet mommy with co-host Willie Geist.

"All I heard was 'Get to the top in 15 minutes,' which scared me." When I came down, Haley had made herself a cup of coffee. He managed to become a Keurig! He did! I went: "Is there any coffee? He said, "I put on oven mitts and brought it. It could be a disaster," Cott said. "What they make is an old piece of paper; they write something on it, sing a song and make a coffee out of it. And it's [perfect]."

"It made me realize too... Sometimes we spend too much time going to an event; we have to go to the amusement park... Disney World... By the way, wait a minute?" They like it. They spend time doing things themselves." Cott and Schiffman adopted Haley in 2017 and Hope in 2019.

"I feel that if you're meant to have kids in your life, your kids are out there," Cott told Today host Jenna Bush Hagger on World Adoption Day 2018. "They told me at the adoption agency, 'Don't worry. , your child is waiting for you there.' And I remember writing in my journal, 'I knew you were there.' So I can feel it."

Earlier this year, Schiffman and Cott announced that they were splitting after getting engaged in November 2019.