Ryan Reynolds didn’t seem too thrilled about his recent trip to a local pumpkin patch, but he went anyway.
The 47-year-old actor, who shares three daughters and one son with Blake Lively, took to his Instagram Story on Oct. 4 to share his lack of excitement when his daughters asked to go to a local pumpkin patch.
In the story, Reynolds re-enacted how that conversation went in his own sarcastic way.
“Of course I wanna take you and your sister to the pumpkin patch,” he said in a joking manner. “No, my love, I never said the pumpkin patch is where joy goes to die because that would be- sorry, what now?”
Reynolds grew even more sarcastic when his daughters asked if they could bring friends along.
“You want to bring little Brandon from school? The one who can’t modulate the volume of his voice?” he said. “Or the other Brandon who always has a communicable disease and once wiped his nose on your hair?”
The conversation took another left turn when they revealed that there’s a third Brandon at school. “All three!? There’s a THIRD Brandon? Halle-f***ing-BOOYA! And they said it couldn’t be done!” he joked.
He then admitted that he might need to find another parent to join in case he needs to “head home and feed the cat,” knowing that he doesn’t have a cat at home.
“Please velcro your shoes and hop in the car,” he concluded, implying they did, in fact, go to the pumpkin patch.
Reynolds describes his parenting as ‘soft’
Reynolds and Lively don’t share everything about their family, but they do give fans small glimpses into what life is like in their household. The pumpkin patch video is the latest example.
While speaking at HubSpot’s INBOUND tech conference in Boston on Sept. 20, he offered another hot take about parenting and how different it is today compared to when he was a child.
“Parents today are so different. We’re so soft,” he said. “I don’t yell. I grew up with like — it was nuts, it was an improvised militia.”
“Now it’s like, I can go look at all my resources for parenting and remind myself how to be perfectly compassionate,” he added.
He also relayed some parenting advice that “Deadpool” director Shawn Levy once shared with him, urging parents to let their children see them lose. To let them see that even parents don’t get what they want all the time.
“It’s just so important that [your kids] see that and they don’t just hear, ‘Oh Dad nailed it.’ Because you lose so much more than you win,” Reynolds said.
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Reynolds and Lively welcomed their fourth child, Olin, in February 2023. They’re also parents to daughters James, 9, Inez, 7, and Betty, 4.