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Kathie Lee Giffordcan’t wait to be a grandma!
“I had just arrived home to begin my book tour on theToday Showthe next morning,” she says, adding that she was seated at the table with Cody and Erika, as well as longtime friend Christine Gardner.
Kathie Lee says she’s still processing the news, telling PEOPLE: “It still hasn’t hit me fully!”
While she’s ecstatic to welcome her first grandchild, she says, “It isn’t about me at all,” adding: “This was about celebrating with my son and his beautiful wife and their love for one another. This is a blessing from God in His way and in His timing.”
In addition to her excitement about welcoming a new family member, Kathie Lee adds that she can’t wait to see her son become a father.
With the newest addition, Kathie Lee says the family plans to “make our traditions as we go along!”
Cody and Erika, who first began dating in 2013,tied the knotin September 2020. A source told PEOPLE at the time that “just parents and siblings were in attendance.”
The couple celebrated their one-year anniversary with a second wedding in September. Erikapostedsome of the special moments on Instagram, including a snap of her and Cody dancing together. Cody’s sister Cassidy and her husband, Ben Wierda, also hosted a second wedding in November after getting married in an intimate ceremony in the groom’s backyard in June 2020.
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Kathie Lee opened up abouther children’s intimate ceremonieswith PEOPLE last year, saying, “Some people are postponing until they can have the big celebration, but my kids just wanted to be married.”
She added that she could feel her late husbandFrank Gifford’s presence during the ceremonies. “At both weddings, we felt Frank just smiling,” she says of the former NFL player, who died in 2015 at the age of 84. “He had an aerial view, I think.”
source: people.com
