Days Of Our Lives star Carson Boatman and his actress wife Julana Dizon welcome their first child: ‘Christmas came early this year’
The Days Of Our Lives actor Carson Boatman and his wife Julana Dizon have welcomed their first child together.
The married soap opera stars revealed they are now parents to an adorable newborn daughter named Ava Rey — who was born on Monday, December 18 in Los Angeles.
On Friday evening, the pair shared a joint Instagram post announcing the exciting news and revealing their baby girl’s name.
‘Christmas came early this year,’ the new parents gushed in their caption. ‘We are so in love with our sweet baby girl, Ava Rey, and can’t wait to see what this next stage of life will look like for the three of us.’
The couple had previously revealed they were expecting with a pregnancy announcement via social media over the summer.
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The Days Of Our Lives actor Carson Boatman and his wife Julana Dizon have welcomed their first child together. The married soap opera stars revealed they are now parents to an adorable newborn daughter named Ava Rey — who was born on Monday, December 18 in Los Angeles
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On Friday evening, the pair shared a joint Instagram post announcing the exciting news and revealing their baby girl’s name. ‘Christmas came early this year,’ the new parents gushed in their caption
The photos showed Carson and Julana cuddling with their baby girl in the hospital and also beaming after bringing her home.
On the same day, they told People about how they felt like something was ‘missing’ in their lives until becoming parents and welcoming their baby.
The couple — who tied the knot in 2021 — gushed and said they are ‘absolutely over the moon’ about the new addition in their family.
‘It truly feels like we’ve found something we didn’t even know we were missing in our lives,’ the new parents told the outlet.
‘The only way I can think to describe it is pure joy, but it’s really something more than that,’ they added.
‘We are blessed and humbled to have been chosen to be Ava’s parents,’ they continued. ‘What we are now lacking in sleep, we have gained tenfold in love.’
The pair also opened up about the special meaning behind their daughter’s name.
They revealed that Ava’s middle name Rey honors Julana’s late father Reynaldo Dizon — who passed away just a month ago after a battle with lung cancer.
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On Friday, the couple — who tied the knot in 2021 — gushed and said they are ‘absolutely over the moon’ about the new addition in their family and also revealed the special meaning behind their daughter’s name
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The photos showed Carson and Julana cuddling with their baby girl in the hospital and also beaming after bringing her home
The new parents first announced that they were expecting back in August via Instagram.
In an adorable snap, the lovebirds leaned in for a kiss as they both grinned ear-to-ear with joy and Julana held up sonogram pictures of their future baby.
‘Boatman, party of 3!’ Carson joked in his caption, adding that their child was ‘Coming December 2023.’
Julana and Carson’s good news follows a shakeup at his series Days Of Our Lives in which the show’s co-executive producer Albert Alarr exited the show amid sexual misconduct allegations and a petition signed by 25 cast members calling for his removal.
The lovebirds were notably both dressed in blue in the photo, though it’s not clear that the color scheme was supposed to indicating anything about the child’s sex, which went unmentioned.
Carson had on a blue shirt with gray pants, while Julana looked glamorous in a sleeveless royal blue dress with a white band around her midriff.
She raised one leg up as she leaned in, while Carson held it up with his hand while she put a hand on the back of his neck to lean in for a kiss.
While Carson is best known as an actor for his 189 episodes to date on Days Of Our Lives, according to IMDb, his wife also has a more recent connection to a rival soap opera.
Although Julana is best known as a model, she appeared on The Bold And The Beautiful earlier this year.
Fittingly, she was cast to play a model.
Carson and Julana met each other in Los Angeles in 2016 after being set up on a date by a gym trainer they shared, whom Boatman called a ‘matchmaker’
‘And the rest is history,’ he told People.
The loving announcement comes around two weeks after the married couple celebrated their second wedding anniversary with jubilant social media posts.
Carson shared a slow-motion video of his bride — still in her wedding dress — as he held her up on his back before she leaned forward to give him a kiss.
