Neil Patrick Harris on Fatherhood

This last week, celebrity Dad, Neil Patrick Harris opened up to Parade Magazine about two of the loves of his life, his twins Gideon and Harper.

Neil and his longtime partner, David Burtka welcomed their twin boys in October via a surrogate. Since that time, they have had lots of practice at making it all work. Parade asked Harris about his career and fatherhood and how he balances it all.

"I have an unbelievable assistant who handles all of my scheduling! It's like a Tetris game. I've been doing this for a while and sometimes you have spells of busyness and other times you're clamoring for work. It's nice to not be put out by being so busy, but to try to embrace it and make smart choices. I guess I'm in a nice position that way. I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case."

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Neil seems to have slipped into fatherhood rather seemlessly, and it is obvious he loves being a Dad. "I love watching them learn to understand language. And watching them interact with each other is fantastic. We're lucky that we have two because they always have a playmate and they get to learn complicated concepts like sharing and cooperation. They get to learn those things a little earlier because they're with each other all the time. Watching their minds tick is fun."

Which How I Met I Met Your Mother castmate can Neil swap parenting stories with?

Whether you know him as Barney Stintson (from How I Met Your Mother), Dr. Horrible or Doogie Howser, Neil Patrick Harris is a busy guy. So when the occasions come that he has time off, he likes to do what any other guy likes to do!  He tells Parade he likes to, "Sleep! Nap! And I'm sort of a tool-around-the-garage guy. I've got a workbench and I like to fix things. Well, I like to say I'm going to fix things and then put them on my workbench and then never get to them!"

Were Harris' babies names in the top 10 of 2011?

I love reading about a Dad in Hollywood who loves his kids and enjoys spending time with them.  Who are some of your favorite celebrity Dads?

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