Why Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are "total rivals"

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Sara McGinnis

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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds' daughter James is only a few months old, but they're "already paranoid" about how fast she's growing up.

"We turned our basement into this cool, accessible room," the new mom explained during a visit with Jimmy Fallon. She elaborated, "I said to Ryan, 'You know, we need to put in a window.' And he said, 'A window going down into the basement? That doesn't make any sense.' I said, 'It's a chastity window. You knew. You were a teenage boy. We cannot have our child—a daughter—go in the basement with a boyfriend. We need a window so that they know at all times that we are watching and they can't get away with doing anything terrible.'"

Blake Lively, who says she chose the name James for her daughter because it's "a family name...and I liked having a boy's name. I thought I'd pass it along," went on to talk about how she and her famous husband are competing for baby's first word.

"We're total rivals, by the way," she told Jimmy. "I hear all the time, 'da-da, da-da,' and then I walk in the room and he's like, 'ma-ma.' And I'm like, 'How dare you do that!' ... The word 'da-da' is banned in our house. You have to say ma-ma all day. And I'm like, 'How can you do that?' I'll take videos where I'm saying 'da-da,' but I don't say it ever."

"She has to say mama first!" the Age of Adaline actress added. "I do everything! He does nothing!"

Oh man, those are fightin' words!

I get it though, and not only do I recall my husband and I doing the ma-ma/da-da thing with our firstborn, I just saw friends of ours doing it this weekend. From what I remember our first baby boy did say 'Dada' first, but it was more a string of 'da-da-dad-da' then a clear pronunciation. Strangely enough, our kids ended up calling my husband 'Papa.'

Our second child? He was closer to making the 'mmm' sound, but ended up going with 'ba-ba,' as his first true communication, which meant both bottle and pacifier.

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