The couple spent the weekend at their youngest kid’s college graduation from the University of Michigan

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos’ son is officially a college grad!

On Saturday, May 3, the Live with Kelly and Mark co-hosts attended their 22-year-old son Joaquin’s college graduation from the University of Michigan and recounted their experience on a Monday, May 5 episode of their show.

“Anyway, we just returned from Ann Arbor, Michigan, where our newborn baby graduated university. That’s right, we’re done!” Ripa begins.

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos at Son’s College Graduation
“What was interesting was that in talking to the other parents, we realized we weren’t alone. Because there’s a bunch of information that parents need. Like, what time is this? Where do you need to be?” Consuelos, 54, says, noting that the two didn’t have much information going into the weekend.

“When should we be here?” adds Ripa. “Do you have our tickets on your phone?”

The couple jokes that although their son is officially a college grad, there are some things he still hasn’t grown out of — like relaying the full plan for graduation.

“And so we thought, at 22, that this is something, my man, that he should’ve grown out of this by now, but every single parent we spoke to — mainly the boys. I think only the guys,” Consuelos says.

“Yes, here we go again. I’m going to gender stereotype. It was the moms of the boys that said, ‘I had no idea this was even happening.’ Until you sent that group text!” added Ripa.

ABCMark Consuelos at Son’s College Graduation
“It was interesting because I felt like by the time the actual Big House graduation rolled out on Saturday, we had already done it several times,” she went on. “We had several graduations before the big graduation.”

“So it started out on Thursday night with a big showcase at the theater department — they had the showcase,” Ripa, 54, explained. “Here we are with Joaquin, who performed. He was incredible and amazing and we were very impressed. Then our daughter flew in from London to catch the performance. There she is. And then the following day, he got his diploma from the school of drama.”

Although the two weren’t given much information before arriving at the graduation, they were able to celebrate their youngest alongside their daughter, Lola, 23, and older son, Michael, 27.

ABCKelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos at Son’s College Graduation
“And then finally after, you can see it on all of our faces. Now, Michael flew in just in time to attend the Big House graduation,” says Ripa. “But if you can tell in this photo, we’re all just going through the motions at this point. Here we are — everybody’s sort of like, ‘Okay. Take the picture. Take the picture so we have a photo of Michael in one of the graduation photos.’ ”

Despite the weekend being a little draining, Consuelos and Ripa admit that this graduation felt different since it was their youngest kid’s college graduation.“I will say, I don’t know. This one hit differently because it’s our last kid to graduate. So we just kept waiting for something bad to happen,” admits Ripa.

ABCKelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos at Son’s College Graduation
“And we held our breath until he walked across the stage,” says Consuelos. “We didn’t believe it until we saw him walk across the stage,” agreed Ripa.

“People were congratulating us and we were like, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just don’t say anything yet because we don’t actually….” Ripa explains. “And then the program. We immediately started looking for his name. Lola’s like, ‘Why are you only looking for Joaquin’s name? That’s so self-centered.’ I was like, ‘I just want to make sure he’s graduating.’ Because he’s very cagey with the details and he didn’t want to give us our tickets. What does that mean?”

“And lo and behold, yes, he did graduate,” says the proud mom.