Maks Chmerkovskiy Says His Newborn Rio Is a “Chill Baby” and “Good Eater”

Maks Chmerkovskiy is relishing his new job as a father of two. The “Dancing With the Stars” professional welcomed his second boy or girl, a infant boy named Rio John Chmerkovskiy, with wife Peta Murgatroyd on Father’s Working day on June 18, and Chmerkovskiy is soaking up each and every small moment with his newborn son.

“Apparently, I failed to know this, I should’ve, but toddlers are not able to see previous a foot or a little something, so I am a recurrent infant holder,” the 48-year-old performer — who is residing at The Meritage Vacation resort and Spa this summer months — tells POPSUGAR throughout a June 23 interview at his and brother Val Chmerkovskiy’s Savor Immediately after Hours cabaret display in Napa, CA. “With Shai, I was pressured in the corner,” Maks adds of his 6-calendar year-old son, Shai Aleksander Chmerkovskiy.

At just 10 times aged and weighing 8 kilos, 6 ounces, Maks claims “Rio is a chill newborn.” He also phone calls him “a superior eater,” introducing, “It is really just the very same sample: snooze and pooping.”

Maks’s more youthful brother, Val, also expanded his relatives earlier this year. The 37-calendar year-aged entertainer celebrated the arrival of his initially baby, son Rome Valentin Chmerkovskiy, with spouse Jenna Johnson on Jan. 10. However, even with each of them becoming dads now, the brothers say they really don’t access out to each other for parenting assistance. “We are so near in all the things that we do that I know he has my back again. If I am starting to tumble, I try not to slide, but I’m conscious that he’s all around. We just get together now and form of decompress by not speaking about it,” Maks suggests of their unspoken comprehending. “It’s also intriguing to enjoy him do his thing with no me telling him what to do.”

Val provides: “We equally know every other’s responsibilities somewhere else, so when we’re jointly, we’re just like, this is a handle.”

Each Maks and Val have obtained good accomplishment in their respective professions and have remaining a long lasting impact on the dance globe. On the lookout in direction of the foreseeable future, the brothers say their only wish is for their young ones to see how really hard they have worked to get exactly where they are and to use that as inspiration to chase just after their own dreams. “I just want to give them the sickest chances. I want them to develop up in a stressless surroundings — as stressless as we can make it,” Maks says. “I want them to see me get the job done, but additional importantly, it can be about them. [Richard Williams, Serena and Venus Williams’s dad] is a blueprint for me. He is not a person they praise for get the job done ethic or abilities, but they praise him for staying a wonderful father. At the close of it all, I just want to be that.”

Val echoes related sentiments, expressing he wishes his son to use his accomplishments as determination to be “a dancer himself or the very best scientist he can be, or a wrestler or boxer or whatsoever” he chooses. “I just want him to see his dad placing in a lot of work and a lot of energy into something,” Val adds. “I just want him to be content.”

Maks and Val are reuniting on phase this summer months for their new wine-tasting cabaret clearly show, Savor Immediately after Hours, in Napa, CA. Tickets start out at $44 and are on sale now.