Ricky Martin and his 4-month-old twin boys, Valentino & Matteo, will cover this week’s edition of PEOPLE EN ESPAÑOL, on newsstands nationwide this Friday.

The boys were born via a surrogate mother last August.

“Adoption was one option, but it’s complicated and can take a long time. Surrogacy was an intriguing and faster option. I thought, ‘I’m going to jump into this with no fear.”

“I don’t have a nanny. I’m doing this on my own because I don’t want to miss a moment,” the “Livin’ La Vida Loca” singer says. “I have a personal assistant who helps me, someone who takes care of me while I’m taking care of them, but I’m the one who changes the diapers, the one that feeds them, the one that bathes them, the one that puts them to sleep. For any parent, the first couple of months tend to get a little bit intense….”