The grandchildren in the Bush family have the best names for their grandparents, former U.S. President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush!
In a discussion on TODAY with Laura and her two daughters, twins Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush, the family spoke about motherhood and their growing families. But in a blink-and-you’d-miss-it moment, Barbara actually spilled the beans about what her and Hager’s grandkids call their famous grandparents.
The kiddos refer to the former president as “Jefe” and their grandma as “Grammy.”
“Cora Georgia said she wants to move next door to Grammy and Jefe,” confessed Barbara, referring to her daughter.
How cute is that? Jefe is Spanish for boss, which is about the coolest nickname we’ve ever heard kids call their grandpa.
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For Laura, seeing her daughters blossom into amazing mothers has been a blessing, even though it didn’t surprise her at all.
“It’s been really fun to see both of you do it,” Laura explained. “Of course, I knew you would both be good — great — mothers.”
“But we learned it all from you,” Hager said. “I guess not all from you. We should give dad credit, too. Dad was a great dad.”
Hager explained that although conventional wisdom suggested that her presidential father wouldn’t be around to parent his two daughters in the White House, the opposite was true — he was very much a part of their upbringing!
“They just showed us that we were number one and really taught me how to be present with my children,” added Barbara.
Laura is cherishing her role as “Grammy” because, for her, it’s an arrangement that always works out in grandma’s favor:
“For one thing, we can be with them, we can play with them, and then we can send them all to y’all!” she told her daughters with a smile.
A split of Jenna Bush Hager and George W. Bush and Laura Bush
What was Jenna Bush Hager’s Secret Service nickname?
Hager reminisces quite often about her time growing up in the White House, and in a 2020 appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Hager dished on some Washington, D.C. secrets — including her Secret Service code name!
“My code name was Twinkle,” she told Andy Cohen. “I take that as a compliment.”
Hilariously enough, the secret code name came up again during a visit to the White House later in her life — this time in front of her current morning show colleagues.
“When we went back to the White House with the TODAY show peeps, we walked in and they were like, ‘Twinkle, welcome home,’ and everybody was like, ‘Twinkle?’” Hager recalled.
Her sister Barbara’s code name? Turquoise.