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Jenna Bush Hager had an extra reason to “say cheese” this Thanksgiving holiday.TheToday show cohost shared a glimpse at her 44th birthday celebration with her family, sharing how her and husband Henry Hager‘s kids Mila, 12, Poppy, 10 and Hal, 6, pitching in to throw the ultimate dinner party for her.“Sagittarius celebrations,” Jenna wrote on her Instagram page on Dec. 2, “with creative direction by my loveliest kids, reunion and more celebrating with my dearest in the most magical place stepping into December grateful.”

The TV personality’s kids created a customized “Mom’s Bday tasting menu” that included a “Brie My Queen” cheese snack, Texas Tacos made with beans and cheese, and a dessert titled “The Cat Nap Crunch” that consisted of coffee ice cream with Oreo crumbles.As they marked her birthday ahead of her Nov. 25 special day, the Today With Jenna and Friends anchor shared insight into how the plans came to fruition.“Mila was sort of the creative director,”

Jenna told Andy Cohen onToday on her birthday. “This is her menu.”Ultimately, the dinner celebration, while fun, was a little too cheesy—literally—for Jenna.“I love cheese but I’ll just say this,” she said, “that at the age of 44, a four-course cheese meal doesn’t hit the way it did at 22.”And beyond planning the dinner,. Her kids also came through with live entertainment.

“They had performances,” she revealed to Andy. “Poppy actually wrote a song, I think with the help of AI.”

Poppy isn’t the only child writer in the family, however. Jenna revealed Mila brought home an assignment from school that the tween “wrote so profoundly,”Jenna admitted in her Voices at the Table newsletter in October, that “it made me teary.”

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“I realized that sometimes I find the most comfort in the beauty and innocence of my children,” she continued. “All I have to do is read their assignments, cuddle with them at night, pay attention to the creative and loving things they say — and then I feel like our world is filled with such profound and sparkly hope.”

As Jenna marks her latest birthday milestone, keep reading for a look at the whole Today crew and their loved ones…