Rumer Willis and Derek Richard Thomas celebrated the birth of their daughter with a sweet joint Instagram post. "Louetta Isley Thomas Willis, you are pure magic," the proud parents captioned the photo of their newborn. "Born at home on Tuesday, April 18th. You are more than we ever dreamed of."
Thomas has embraced fatherhood, and Willis has been open about her appreciation for all he does. "I am so grateful to have you in my life and our daughter's life. You are such a great dad, and our girl is so lucky to call you Papa," she captioned a photo on Instagram of Thomas sleeping next to Louetta. Even before he became a father, Willis was praising Thomas. "He's been so lovely, and he's just so excited to be a dad, and we're both just so delighted to meet whoever this little person is," she told People in an April 2023 interview. "I could not have asked for a better partner, and he's going to be such a great dad."
The couple also works well as a team. "I also think it's amazing ... her dad and I discovering ourselves as parents," Willis said in a chat with People in a November 2023 interview. "We're discovering how we want a parent, and how we're taking the things certain things from our parents, but also how we're kind of forming new things for ourselves because there's so much that we have access to that our parents didn't."
