Thomas Rhettand his wifeLaurenare expecting their third child, they announced on Instagram Tuesday afternoon with a series of family photos featuring their daughtersAda James, 23 months, andWilla Gray, 3½.
“Excited to share that I will now be paying for 3 weddings?,” Thomas Rhett, 29,joked in his caption. “I feel so blessed to say that our third child is on the way and it’s a girl!! I love you so much@laur_akins. WG and AJ, y’all are gonna be the best big sisters! Bring on the crazy.”
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Thomas Rhett (R), wife Lauren and daughter Ada.Lauren Akins/ Instagram
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In a2017 interview with PEOPLEshortly following Ada’s birth, Thomas Rhett and Lauren, 29, talked about their cozy-yet-chaotic new life as parents of two. (They hadadopted Willa from Ugandajust months earlier, in May 2017.)
“The moment we look at our calendars, it reallydoes stress us out,” the country crooner said of balancing family time with his then-upcoming album,Life Changes. “But ifLuke BryanandJason Aldeancan do it, we can do it!”
“It’s not like there ever is a perfecttime to have kids, or a perfect time to put out a record,” Thomas Rhett added. “We just happen to be doing both at the exact same time! We keep going back to ‘Take it one day at a time.’ ”
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The soon-to-be father of three expressed his desire for additional children with his wife this past June, where he admitted in aninterview with ABC News Radiothat despite the less glamorous parts of touring with kids, he isready to add more to the mix.
“It is very stressful, I feel like, to travel with your kids and still know that you’re waking up at 6 and you’re also playing a show at night. So in that aspect, I’m going, ‘Ilove my two kids and I’m kind of content,’ ” said Thomas Rhett.
However, “If we stopped having kids now, I know I’d wake up at 45 and go, ‘We should’ve had five more,’ ” the country singer added. “Because I really do want to be able to sit at aThanksgivingorChristmastable with the most gigantic family on the planet.”
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It’s a “scary” concept to juggle parenting duties among more and more little ones, but Thomas Rhett’s mantra is the more the merrier, as he has been told it gets easier after two kids.
“They saythat going from one to twois the hardest thing you’ll do as a parent,” he said. “I don’t know if that’s true ’cause I haven’t lived it yet, but going from two to three and maybe four and five, I’m just gonna embrace it and know that we can accomplish anything.”
” ‘Cause there is nothing more fun than being around my children,” the musician continued. “So I can only imagine it gets more fun the more that you have.”
Thomas Rhett’s newest album,Center Point Road, is available now onamazon.com.
source: people.com
