Katie Couric is formally a grandmother.
The previous Currently co-anchor shared that her daughter Ellie Monahan and son-in-law Mark Dobrosky welcomed their initially little one, John Albert Dobrosky, on his due date, March 23, at 8:23 a.m. The news can make Couric a initially-time grandma.
John was “just shy of 7 pounds,” Couric wrote in the caption of an Instagram post on March 24.
Couric, 67, also shared the this means guiding her grandson’s nickname and center identify.
“He will be named Jay in honor of his maternal grandfather. Albert is after Mark’s paternal grandfather,” she stated. “Mother and Dad (Ellie and Mark) are above the moon 🌕 (it was a whole moon)”
Couric shared images of the pleased mom and dad, moreover pics of herself and her youngest daughter Carrie Monahan holding the newborn.
“I am thrilled to have my initially grandchild. Carrie cannot hold out to be a neat Aunt and Molner is making the most of handing out cigars,” Couric wrote, referring to her spouse, John Molner, who seems in the very last pic.
Couric earlier posted photographs on Instagram March 4 from her daughter’s infant shower, where visitors were being all smiles ahead of her because of date.
“A few months until B working day! Ellie’s child shower was a celebration of enjoy and friendship by means of the years,” Couric wrote in the caption.
Couric shared numerous pics of the function, where tables ended up covered with bouquets and she wore a cream colored matching established along with her daughter’s eco-friendly costume.
“Thank you to all people who came and produced it so particular for Ellie and the newborn to be! Bringing a baby into the world—the supreme act of really like and hope,” she stated. “I am so fired up!!!”
She unveiled the sexual intercourse of the child was mysterious, and that it would be a “delivery room surprise” for everybody.
The mom of two shared the second she learned she was getting a to start with-time grandmother in an lovable movie she posted on Instagram in December.
Couric sat exterior as Carrie Monahan handed her a bracelet. Couric struggled to read what it explained.
“Brand, brandy, brandy, B, granny,” she mentioned by laughter, ahead of at last figuring out, “Granny to be.”
Her confront then goes major.
“I’m expecting,” Ellie Monahan mentioned, off digital camera.
“You are?” Couric replied as her jaw dropped. “Wow!”
Ellie Monahan requested: “Are you freaked out?”
“No,” Couric responded as a result of laughter.
Couric wrote in the caption she had been “dying to tell” her followers of the information.
“This is what happens when you go to a @taylorswift concert final summertime and fail to remember your friendship bracelet and your daughters say, ‘Don’t get worried, we manufactured just one for you!'” she claimed.
Ellie Monahan married Mark Dobrosky in 2021 after getting engaged in 2019. Couric couldn’t consist of her excitement then, possibly.
“Newborn you are a firework,” she captioned a photo of the few hunting at fireworks. “Satisfied marriage Ellie and Mark.”
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