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Ryan Reynolds reveals a look inside fatherhood with Blake Lively and their four Children.

Ryan Reynolds detailed life with Blake Lively as parents to daughters James, Inez and Betty and 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢 boy Olin.

Ryan Reynolds is cherishing the present.

After the Deadpool & Wolverine star revealed the name of his and Blake Lively’s 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢 boy Olin, Ryan detailed life at home with his son and the couple’s four daughters James, 9, Inez, 7, and Betty, 4.

“It’s the best thing that ever happened to me,” Ryan told Amanda Hirsh during the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast July 30. “Embrace the chaos. We have four kids. Nothing’s going to be tidy ever again. It will, though, when they all leave the house.”

Ryan also credited Blake with some words of wisdom that he holds close to his heart through the ebbs and flows of parenting.

“My wife said to me, ‘They’re all under our roof right now.’ The 47-year-old explained. “‘The whole family’s under our roof right now. We have them all.’ And that is a fleeting thing. Not an infinite resource. Embrace the chaos of it all.”

Of course, The Proposal star admitted life as a dad of four isn’t always picture perfect—and offered some of his own advice.

“It does get to you,” he added. “It’s okay to be like, ‘F–k. I am dying here.’ If you can just think about what you would give in 40 years or 30 years to come back to this one moment.”

And Ryan emphasized that he is looking forward to embracing home life after the intensity of filming and promoting his latest movie, which also stars Hugh Jackman.

“I put my last drop of blood into this movie and, boy, did I love every second of it,” he noted. “But after this I’m just going to go be a dad and a husband.”

Over the years, The Green Lantern star has often exemplified just how much he loves being a parent with Blake. After all, he recently admitted he isn’t against adding more to the couple’s brood.

“The more the merrier,” he joked to E! News earlier this month. “As many as possible. As many little heartbeats as possible, just running around, wrecking stuff in the house. I love it. Let’s have more!”

On a more serious note, Ryan affirmed he and Blake couldn’t be happier as parents of four.

“Look, we wouldn’t do this four times if we didn’t love it,” he explained to CNBC last February. “Everybody’s doing great. Everybody’s actually doing fantastic.”

Keep reading for more thoughts from Ryan and Blake on parenthood.

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This Will Make Your Head Spin

“I have seen Frozen with my daughters so, so many times and people don’t know this, but if you play Frozen backwards, it’s actually a shot for shot remake of The Exorcist,” Reynolds joked on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2018.

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Fun Uncle

On Dec. 15, 2016, Reynolds and Lively debuted their daughters James and Inez for the first time, at the actor’s Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony (a common setting for notoriously private celebrities to introduce the world to their kids). During his speech, Reynolds said to his wife, “You make everything better—absolutely everything in my life better. You’ve given us two of the most incredible children that I could ever hope to have. You’ve made me the father of my dreams when I thought I only had fun uncle potential.”

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Best Thing Ever

In August 2016, before the birth of the couple’s second daughter, Reynolds told E! News, “There’s nothing on earth more grounding than having a 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢. It’s the best thing that could ever happen to someone.”

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The Messy Side

“It’s tough when you get pooped on and barfed on, but having a 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢 is wonderful,” the proud mama told NW Magazine in 2016. “Even when it’s tough and I’m exhausted, I think, ‘I am so fortunate.'”

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A Bullet for Baby

During a visit to the Late Show with David Letterman in 2015, Reynolds gushed about his marriage and his daughter, but made sure viewers knew who was more important. “‘I would take a bullet for you. I could never love anything as much as I love you.’ I would say that to my wife. And the second I looked in that 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢’s eyes, I knew in that exact moment that if we were ever under attack, I would use my wife as a human shield to protect that 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢.”

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The Joys of Fatherhood

In tradition with his dark sense of humor, Reynolds shared this little parenting joke with his Twitter followers in 2016: “Being a father is the single greatest feeling on earth. Not including those wonderful years I spent without a child, of course.”

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Daddy’s Dirty Work

“I always do the dirty work,” Reynolds said on NBC’s Today show in 2016. “I’m happy to do the dirty work. So does she, but I’m always, I love getting up in the middle of the night, I’m fine with that, you know, all that stuff.”

Fatherhood, he said, has been “amazing.”

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Morning Duties

“I had one of those mornings, rare mornings, where my daughter just didn’t want me to leave—and it was only because my wife was asleep,” Reynolds said in 2016. “But it was like, you didn’t want to go. You just like, it 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁s you.”

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There’s Dad!

“You know, what was really weird was, we were watching the Super Bowl and my daughter saw it and she totally recognized me. There was like 12 of me, which is just like, to her, was like 24 useless boobs,” Reynolds said in 2016. “She was so not impressed. She was like, ‘Eh, whatever.'”

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Becoming A Big Kid

“Damn it’s hard letting your infant daughter go somewhere alone for the first time, I was a total mess dropping her off at Burning Man,” Ryan joked to his Twitter followers in 2016.

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Look Who’s Talking

“She’s great, man. She’s great,” the proud papa gushed in 2015 before revealing whether the couple’s then-only child James has started speaking. “We’re getting a lot of sounds, nothing that sounds like discernible English at this point,” he quipped, adding, “I’m mocking her a lot.”

Silly Love

“@vancityreynolds Since the day our 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢 was born, I’ve felt so strongly in my heart that you were most likely the father,” Lively wrote on Instagram in 2015. “#ILoveYouSoMuchItsSilly.”

 

 

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