Nicole Fosse Quotes

There's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best.

Acting with your mom? It's not something you get to do very often.

My grandmother and my mother raised me, but my dad made a conscious effort to be in my life - every weekend he would take me out.

I love my time with my kids.

My mom and I used to dance to the Jackson 5 in our living room.

My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and child is so important and precious. I have lasting memories of those stories because the experience was special.

Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I was three years old, and he used to sit in a rocker on the front porch while I sat on the grass in the yard, and we'd play catch by the hour.

There's no better feeling than making your little girls laugh.

My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.

My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.

Some of the things that have been the most meaningful to me have been experiences I've shared with my family.

I love being outside with my boys, playing tag or trying to keep up with them.

I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.

If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.

Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.

I was always impressed by how much my dad went out in the yard and played with me and my siblings when we were kids. I'm sure he was tired coming back from work, since he traveled a lot. But he always took time out of his day to go out in the yard.

My daughter gets to paint my nails and put clips in my hair, and I love it.

We found that our kids enjoy those simple adventures we take as a family. I'm driving, my wife's the copilot and we give one kid a choice of what they want to go do. We eat a lot of bad food and sleep in some interesting hotels.

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.

I love sleeping in my son's silly racecar bed. I love watching hours of 'Yo Gabba Gabba.' I love long playdates with his best friend Jack and traveling with Zev. Most of all I love coming home from work and seeing Zev run up to me saying, 'My mommy's home! My mommy's home!'

I think, now that my brothers and I live so far apart, the greatest gift is when we can be together - when everyone can be in the same room at the same time.

I happily went on holiday with my parents until I was 18, because we always had such a good time that I didn't want to venture off and do my own thing. I have very fond memories of those holidays with my brother, mum, and dad.