'My Sunshine Girl': Jenna Bush Hager Celebrates Daughter Poppy's 9th Birthday with Sweet Instagram Tribute

Jenna Bush Hager's little girl is growing up!

On Tuesday, Aug. 13, the Today with Hoda & Jenna co-host, 42, shared her love for her daughter Poppy as she celebrated her 9th birthday. In a cute Instagram carousel, the mother-daughter duo can be seen smiling together as they paddle board down a lake in matching pink shirts.

"Happiest birthday to my sunshine girl: Poppy Louise!" the proud mom wrote in her caption.

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"She's hilarious and loving and completely original! Nine years with this beauty: and my world is more fun, more dazzling and definitely filled with more laughter! We love you!" she continued.

In more photos, Poppy can be seen reading books with her dad Henry Chase Hager, giving a piggyback ride to her older sister Mila, 11, and building sandcastles with her younger brother Hal, 4.

Earlier this summer, Bush Hager sent Poppy and Mila off to summer camp in Texas, and admitted to co-host Ho -

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da Kotb, 59, that she shed a few tears at the bus stop.

"I dropped both of the girls at the bus," the news anchor explained, adding that she had "little tears under my big sunglasses."

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As a first-time camper, Poppy shared many concerns about his summer ahead. "Poppy was like, ‘But what about the spiders in the bathroom?’ and I was like, ‘You’re going to become friends with the spiders in the bathroom,’ ” Bush Hager recalled. “She’s like, ‘But what about the heat?’ I’m like, ‘It’s going to become normal to you ... it’s hot there.”

An experienced camper herself, Mila was happy to step up as the helpful big sister, telling Poppy, "Okay, so here’s what you do, Poppy," before explaining that drinking Sprite in the Texas heat will make her feel sick.

Although the Today co-host was happy to send her kids to the same camp she attended as a child, the mom of three told Kotb, "I feel like two of my three hearts are far away from me."

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