“Daddy” is, without a doubt,Dax Shepard‘s favorite role.
The actor — who shares daughtersDelta, 4, andLincoln, 6, with wifeKristen Bell— shared his joy over fatherhood in a touching Instagram post Thursday, showing him hugging one of his little girls close.
Shepard, 44, had his eyes closed as he pulled his daughter in for the warm embrace. The youngster was wearing a headband atop her blonde locks and a lavender coat over a red-and-white skirt, finishing the cute look with a pair of black boots and a tiny pink purse.
“This is the highlight of all my days,” the proud fathercaptioned his photograph.
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Shepard and Bell, 38, opened up to PEOPLE recently for a March cover story about theirhonesty-is-the-best-policy approach to parentingtheir daughters, even if it can sometimes make things a little awkward.
“We don’t do any white lying, for better or worse. If they want the truth, they get the truth,” said Shepard, whileThe Good Placestar added, “They know how babies are made, they know that Santa Claus is us, they know that a giant rabbit doesn’t break into the house and leave them chocolate in April every year.”
Acknowledging that some parents may findthe lack of Santa in their household“very triggering,” Shepard explained to PEOPLE that it was Lincoln who first brought up that Father Christmas is a farce.
“Here’s the thing: Our oldest daughter wasnotbuying it,” he said. “We were fine with the one lie, like ‘Yeah, he’s Santa. He comes from here.’ Then it was like, ‘Well, how’s he do this?’ We’re like, ‘Okay, so his sleigh is magic … ‘ All of a sudden you’re 36 lies deep.”
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Shepard has fully embraced being a dad to two little girls, havingdonned a tiara to play housewith them in the past and dropped everythingto fix their playthings.
“The #dadbeast likes big butt books and fixin kids toyz,” Bell captioneda September photoof a shirtless Shepard in the garage focused on their daughter’s pink-and-bluePAW Patrolbike, emblazoned with the phrase “Girl Pup Power!” (In the background, hilariously, sat a copy ofThe Big Butt Book 3D.)
The previous month, Shepard and Bellwalked Lincoln to schoolduring her first week of kindergarten, which saw theCHiPSstar holding his daughter and hugging her close inside the school before dropping her off for the day.
“Nerd alert!!! The team Shepard loves school!! 🤓🤓🤓,” Bellwrote on the post.
source: people.com
