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Lance Armstrong Tries to Get Down to Kids' Level

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Lance Armstrong has accomplished numerous things during his life, including successfully fighting cancer, but the cyclist believes that “being a parent is the most challenging thing you’ll ever do and the biggest responsibility.” To help him, Lance looks back on the relationship he had with his mom to help him with son Luke, 9, and twin daughters Isabelle and Grace, 7. “I try to be friendly with my kids,” notes Lance, adding that “I’m their father and they’re my kids, but I try to get down to their level quite a bit and be silly and goofy with them and let them view me as a buddy.” Making life even more interesting for Lance is the fact that the kids spend part of their time with their mom Kristin Richard.

“It’s fun to see them evolve and grow and it’s interesting too because they split time between me and their mom. So they’ll go back to their mom for four days and come back and they’re doing something completely different. They learned to ride their bikes over here, and they go back to her house and say, ‘Hey, we’re riding bikes.’ But over there they learn how to tie their shoes and they come back over here and I’ve missed that.”

The 37-year-old recently announced that he and girlfriend Anne Hansen are expecting their first child together in June.

Source: Outside Online

Enrico Colantoni Misses Family While Filming

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Actor Enrico Colantoni is proud to be part of the hit television series Flashpoint, especially because it is filmed in his home country of Canada. While he loves being back there to tape the show, there is a downside — his wife Nancy and kids Quintin, 11, and Madelyn Francesca, 8, are at the family’s home in Los Angeles, CA because of their schooling. “I miss my kids … I know I’m going to go back in February, which makes it a lot more endurable,” says the 45-year-old actor. Enrico has only been away from his family for about a week but he makes sure to stay in touch with them frequently through Skype, even though he thinks he misses the kids more than they miss him!

The former Just Shoot Me star also shared that he is unsure when Amy Jo Johnson — his co-star and new mom to 7-week-old Francesca Christine – will be coming back but assures us she will be! “Her baby is absolutely the most beautiful thing,” he gushed. In the meantime, “something happens in the fourth episode that will air this season that will sort of explain” where things stand with Amy Jo. “Anyone schooled in the ways of television knows how it works — the actress is pregnant, and then something happens, and the character conveniently disappears for a while.”

Source: National Ledger

James Marsden Keeps the Romance Alive

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For many new parents, the arrival of children triggers a decline in romance. James Marsden says that his own marriage to Lisa Linde might have suffered a similar fate, but the couple changed their definition of romance instead. “Early on in our relationship, there was lots of serenading on the beach and things like that,” the 35-year-old actor jokes. “But once you have kids, it’s all about the other stuff.”

“My wife thinks I’m romantic if I get up with the crying baby and let her sleep in. Romance is thoughtful acts for someone you love.”

Life in Tennessee is going well for the family of four, with the couple’s two children — Jack Holden, 7 ½, and Mary James, 3 — subjecting James to classics like Cinderella, Shrek and Toy Story “over and over again.” “I could recite those whole movies for you right now,” he admits. And while Mary is not yet aware of James’ celebrity status, the same cannot be said for Jack, who has an action figure of his dad’s character Cyclops in the film X-Men.  Adds James,

“But really, he’s really into Spider Man and Pixar movies — Buzz Light year is his guy. No Superman, no X-Men. I think he just assumes that everyone at his school has a dad who’s a big superhero.”

James and Lisa have been married since 2000.

Source: Daily Record