Lauren Akins Celebrates Daughter Ada James with Fun Snaps for Her 7th Birthday: 'Just a Little Late'

Lauren Akins is sharing her love for her daughter as she celebrates her birthday.

On Thursday, Aug. 22, the wife of country star Thomas Rhett honored her daughter Ada James with a sweet belated birthday tribute after she turned 7 years old on Aug. 12. Sharing a carousel filled with cute pictures of Ada on Instagram, the proud mom of four wrote, "HAPPY 7th BIRTHDAY (justttt a little late) to our firecracker angel of a baby🩷."

In the post, Ada can be seen smiling big in a selfie with her mom, hanging with horses and her dad, holding up her lost front tooth and posing with her disco ball-covered birthday cake.

"Your heart is so beautiful, brave and full of compassion🥰 and I am having so much fun getting to be your mommy and watching you SHINE ✨," Akins continued in her caption. "You are so loved Ada James 🎈🎂☀️🩵💕."

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Thomas Rhett, 34, and Akins also share daughters Willa Gray, 8½, Lennon Love, 4½, and Lillie Carolina, 2½. 

While speaking to PEOPLE following the release of his highly anticipated studio album About a Woman, Thomas Rhett shared that his goal was the make music that would make his kids "want to move."

"It was just like, man, my last couple albums, there'd be so many songs that my kids wanted to skip or that my wife wanted to skip," the "Craving You" singer told PEOPLE. "I don't really know the reason why except that it didn't make them want to dance. I really wanted to make sure that my wife and kids felt like this was one that put a smile on their face and has really made 'em want to move."

In July, Akins opened up about her experience welcoming Willa and Ada just a few months apart in a White Chair Film released by I Am Second.

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Willa was adopted by the couple in May 2017, and as the mom of four detailed, "Three months, to the day, after she came home, I went to the hospital to deliver Ada." As the family transitioned from zero to two kids in such a short period of time, Akins recalled the difference in reactions between her and her husband.

"I began touring with my husband," she explained, adding that, "His life went on, and mine stopped. I felt like we weren’t doing it together anymore."

Akins admitted, "I just hit a breaking point, where I didn't like him and I resented him."

To resolve their issues, the couple participated in a "mini intensive counseling session" for over two days, where the two "shared everything," she said. "And some of it was really hard to hear from each other, so we really just did a restart."