Thomas Rhett and his wife Lauren now have two daughters, 21 month old Willa Gray and two-week old Ada James, and Thomas admits, after adopting Willa Gray and bringing her home when she was 16 months old, and now learning to take care of a newborn, “We are completely unprepared, that’s for sure. When you step into immediately having a 16 month old, I feel like I know how to deal with a 2 year old pretty accurately now but an infant is a whole different story because when they cry you don’t fully know why they’re crying. And I have not been a very good ‘make you stop crying’ kind of dad. But it’s been a huge adjustment but we’re having a blast and feel very blessed to have two pretty girls.”
In addition to learning how to navigate fatherhood, Thomas is preparing to release his new album, Life Changes, in less than two weeks, featuring his latest single, “Unforgettable,” plus he’s also still touring, having just opened two sold out shows for Kenny Chesney this past weekend at Gillette Stadium in Boston. Fortunately though, he was able to be home for the birth of his daughter, and he was able to witness the first time Willa met her baby siste for the first time. He says, “The next day after we had Ada, Willa came to the hospital and started putting her hands like all over Ada and it was a bunch of ‘be gentle, be gentle.’ But now it’s like, it’s amazing because Willa, she asks to hold Ada, and so she’ll just sit there like on the couch and rock her. But it’s pretty amazing I think they’re so close in age that they’re gonna be really close as they get older.”
Thomas says Willa is still learning how to be gentle with her little sister, although it’s a process, so it seems everyone in the Akins house is adjusting to life with a newborn.
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“We are completely unprepared, that’s for sure. When you step into immediately having a 16 month old, I feel like I know how to deal with a 2 year old pretty accurately now but an infant is a whole different story because when they cry you don’t fully know why they’re crying. And I have not been a very good ‘make you stop crying’ kind of dad. But it’s been a huge adjustment but we’re having a blast and feel very blessed to have two pretty girls.”
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“The next day after we had Ada, Willa came to the hospital and started putting her hands like all over Ada and it was a bunch of ‘be gentle, be gentle.’ But now it’s like, it’s amazing because Willa, she asks to hold Ada and so she’ll just sit there like on the couch and rock her. But it’s pretty amazing I think they’re so close in age that they’re gonna be really close as they get older.”