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That's not his final answer, however.

\"If we stopped having kids now, I know I'd wake up at 45 and go, 'We should have had five more,'\" he revealed. \"Because I really do want to be able to sit at a Thanksgiving or Christmas table with the most gigantic family on the planet.\"

Since the couple adopted Willa from a Ugandan orphanage just months before Lauren gave birth to Ada, Rhett figures they can handle anything.

\"They say that going from one to two is the hardest thing you'll do as a parent...\" he reflected. \"But going from two to three and maybe four and five, like I'm just gonna embrace it and know that, like, we can accomplish anything.\"

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\"Because there is nothing more fun than being around my children,\" the singer added. \"And so I can only imagine it gets more fun the more that you have.\"

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