“It’s the best thing that ever happened to me,” Ryan said of his family on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast July 30.

“Embrace the chaos. We have four kids. Nothing’s going to be tidy ever again. It will, though, when they all leave the house.”

And the Marvel star was thankful to Blake for some words of wisdom she imparted on him when it came to the stress of parenting.

“My wife said to me, ‘They’re all under our roof right now,'” he recalled. “‘The whole family’s under our roof right now. We have them all.’ And that is a fleeting thing. Not an infinite resource. Embrace the chaos of it all.”

For more of Blake and Ryan’s thoughts on parenting, keep reading.