HARDY Cannot Consider How Fortunate He and Spouse Caleigh Are to Have Their Smiley Child Rosie: ‘It is Unbelievable’

HARDY merely can’t get sufficient of his daughter Rosie‘s smile. 

“I am not kidding — she smiles all the time,” HARDY, 34, tells PEOPLE from his tour bus parked exterior a venue in Arizona. “It is unbelievable.”

It’s an ever-present smile that HARDY and his spouse, Caleigh Ryan Hardy, typically share on social media, however one which they nonetheless can’t fairly place. “Typically we expect it is all me, and typically we expect it’s all Caleigh,” HARDY says with fun. “I suppose you may say it is slightly little bit of each. It adjustments daily.”

It’s these ample smiles and the rising persona of 4-month-old Rosie that has not solely captured the center of HARDY, however has additionally put the nation rock star on a far totally different private trajectory than ever earlier than.

“It is totally different now, particularly with the newborn being right here,” says HARDY, who’s at the moment out on the street on his JIM BOB Tour. “I don’t know what’s in retailer, however I do know that I am not going to be partying like I used to,” he laughs. “I imply, we have all the time had a really protected, enjoyable vibe out right here.”

It’s that protected and enjoyable atmosphere that the “Wait within the Truck” hitmaker hopes to lift little Rosie in because the years go by. “If you are going to elevate a child on the street, I really feel like a pleasant, enjoyable atmosphere is essential,” says HARDY, who made his Grand Ole Opry debut again in April. “I am excited for that very a lot. However yeah, it is most likely a superb time simply to relax with the partying slightly bit. It is time to develop up slightly bit.”

However, an occasional beer by no means harm anybody. HARDY is at the moment partnering with Outlaw Mild Beer on a nationwide activation that not solely contains shock giveaways, unique merch and VIP entry to HARDY’s tour, but additionally the possibility for followers to disclose a golden-ticket, limited-edition HARDY can sitting proper there in their very own case. 

“It is most likely not even cool to say this anymore, however me having my very own customized beer can wasn’t on my bingo card,” he admits with fun of his limited-edition HARDY can. “The buck that is on there’s a buck that I killed a few years in the past, which I feel is absolutely cool. After which within the background are what I consider are Loblolly pines, that are similar to the place I come from in Mississippi. [The can] encompasses numerous the place I come from and who I am now and every thing in between.”

Actually, there’s a lot about his present life that HARDY says he nonetheless can’t consider, however particularly the psychological well being struggles he has discovered himself coping with ever since being concerned in a severe tour bus accident in October 2022. 

“I have been working numerous the kinks out,” admits HARDY, who opened as much as followers about his extreme anxiousness final fall. “To not get too within the weeds, however the trauma of continually feeling such as you’re at risk going by means of one thing like that’s one thing you simply need to kind by means of, by means of numerous remedy and different issues. It’s all about having the mindset of… ‘I am protected and every thing’s going to be okay.’ I am so grateful for the work I’ve achieved.”

Actually, the work has been price it, because it has helped HARDY focus fully on being a dad. “I’ve achieved numerous enjoyable issues, and I’ve partied in numerous enjoyable locations and all that, however I am fully and completely content material with slowing down and being a dad,” he tells PEOPLE. “I’m totally there. I simply really feel like a dad now. I am simply right down to decelerate and settle into a brand new chapter in my life.”

HARDY advised PEOPLE again in 2022 that he hoped to sometime be a father of 4. Three years later and one child down, is that also the plan?

“I imply, Rosie is the proper youngster, and she or he actually does not do something fallacious, however that would change if we have now slightly hellion for the following one!” admits HARDY when requested if he and Caleigh’s magic quantity has adjusted now that they are dad and mom. “So, 4 remains to be the plan as of proper now. Hopefully we’ll have multiple little child, and we’ll simply preserve going with this factor.”