We’re so thrilled to welcome Aly Michalka and Stephen Ringer‘s boy, Jack Francis Michalka Ringer, into the world! Congrats to the new parents on the birth of the healthy and beautiful baby.

Aly Michalka is a new mom!

The Aly & AJ musician and actress, 35, has welcomed her first baby, son Jack Francis, with husband Stephen Ringer in a home birth at their Santa Barbara residence after nine years of marriage, PEOPLE can exclusively reveal.

“It was a very peaceful and calm birth, which is really what we were hoping for,” says Aly of Jack, who arrived on Sunday, April 21 — about two weeks ahead of her due date — at 6:40 a.m. and weighed 6 lbs., 10 oz. “He’s just a great little guy. He’s got a really special disposition about him.”

Choosing the baby’s name was simple for the couple. At the top of their brief list of options was Jack, inspired by Aly’s late grandfather on her mom’s side, while Francis is a Ringer family name. “We just kind of knew immediately like, ‘Oh yeah, he’s a Jack,'” she explains.

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