Rather, he said, “I’m kind of excited because now I can use him to get out of things. No matter where you’re at, ‘Oh, I gotta go, I can’t, ’cause the baby.‘ And then he’ll look over [innocently widening his eyes] with his two teeth, and everyone’s like, ‘Whatever you got to do! Precious child, take care of him!'”
But at heart, the 40-year-old was simply ready to trade in whatever it was that he was supposedly giving up in favor of Fisher-Price Kick & Play Piano jam sessions, getting excited to screen his animated movies for his son (“‘Why does that saber-toothed tiger sound like my father?'”) and settling into his dad joke era.
For instance, should the Nebraska native and his wife go as farmers for Halloween and dress Beau up like an ear of corn, there’s “a lot of really cute ‘Children of the Corn’ options,” Devine mused. Though if they put him in a tiny wizard costume, he added, “You can make the joke like, ‘How old is he?’ ‘A thousand years old.’ I’d say that a lot.”