Last year, Ryan Reynolds played a lot of dumb games in the press about his first daughter’s name. Like, Blake Lively and Ryan wanted to make a point of not selling their baby’s photos and not doing a pap stroll with the baby, and that was fine. But Ryan went overboard with the guessing games for the baby name. At the end of the day, he finally confirmed that they named their baby girl James, after his late father. Well, now Ryan is trying to make the second baby’s name into another public guessing game. Oh, and he does confirm that they had a girl, although I pretty much assumed that a month ago.

Ryan Reynolds loves being a father to two daughters. What he doesn’t love, though, is the idea that they will one day enter into the dating world. “I’m doing my part to just wipe men off the face of the planet,” he joked in an interview with eTalk’s Ben Mulroney Wednesday. Humor aside, he added, “It’s the best. It’s the best! It’s the best thing that could ever happen to you.”

Ryan and his wife, Blake Lively, recently welcomed their second daughter, who joins big sister James Reynolds, nearly 2. Having two children to take care hasn’t changed Ryan’s approach to parenting much. “It didn’t change the dynamic. There’s just more. There’s more love. There’s more diapers. There’s more all that stuff, you know,” he said. “It’s really kind of profound. I just love watching my older daughter take care of the newborn. That’s been kind of neat to see.”

The sisters have their father wrapped around their little fingers. “It’s really hard to have boundaries, because you’ll just do anything they say,” Ryan said. “Like, anything they’ll say!”

When Blake was pregnant with James in 2014, Ryan joked he wanted to name his firstborn Excalibur Anaconda Reynolds. “When I ran it up the flagpole with my wife, it was resoundly rejected,” he said. As for Baby No. 2’s name, the actor joked, “I had the same name except all the letters in the name being silent—which, again, was confusing for everyone, especially me.”

Without revealing what her name is, Ryan added, “We settled on the right one.”

[From E! News]

Baby-name-guessing aside, I do think becoming a father has changed Ryan for the better. He seems nicer now. He seems more content. He just seems happier and less tightly wound. I do think he adores his wife and daughters too – he only has brothers, so having two little girls must be so refreshing for him. As for the baby name… what IS the appropriate sister-name which would go with James? Girl Michael. Daniel(le)? Javier. Let’s call her JAVIER!!

PS… Ryan looks really DILFy in this photo, right? It’s the grey in his hair and the glasses, I think. He looks like a really hot LL Bean model.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.