Neil Patrick Harris Welcomes Twins Gideon Scott and Harper Grace

SOOOOO HAPPY FOR THEM!
Congrats! 🙂

Harper is becoming quite the popular Hollywood name! CONGRATULATIONS! I don’t remember the announcement that they were expecting but this is such a blessing. I can’t wait to see them! 🙂

So awesome! I am so incoredibly happy for them……Great names for twinkies too!

A new family is born…CONGRATULATIONS! You will make wonderful fathers, advice to all new parents: sleep when you can and take advantage of the help of others if needed. Congrats again.

Yay! I love it when my favorite celebrities have babies around the same time as me, especially when they’re my age. It makes me feel less weird. They are going to be amazing parents. You can tell. I’m so happy for them!

Aww i love him on how i met your mother. Congratulations!! Awesome Names! so Cute! and one of each so cool!!

so happy! love the names too!

YAY! so happy for them! (and what sweet names)

YAY! So happy for NPH and David, congratulations!!! Wonder which last name they’ll have?

Congrats to Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka! Sweet names, too… I wonder what kind of last name they will get? Burtka Harris / Harris Burtka oder only Burtka or Harris?! I’m just wondering though…

Not a fan of the name Harper at all, would have liked Grace better as a first name. Anyway, congrats to the couple–that’s wonderful news!! 🙂

I cant believe how happy I am for these two, I have the biggest smile on my face. I cant imagine how happy they are right now.

I love the names, Harper is such a beautiful name. I am certain she will live up to it.

Gideon has grown on me lately, such a strong name thats not heard too often.

I am thrilled for them and I love both names.

So happy for them both!! They are going to make such amazing parents!!
Not a huge fan of the names but don’t hate them either. Can’t wait to see pictures!!

Congratulations to them! I really like the names they picked out as well.

So happy for a healthy boy and girl.

But wow Harper is like the new Lola of this generation!! Becoming overly popular among celebrities!!

Congrats to the happy couple!

Congratulations! So happy for them. 🙂

Congratulations Neil & David! I love the names. They are unique but not Hollywood weird.

I’m pretty sure Neil has mentioned David’s twins before…likely either on a commentary for How I Met Your Mother or in an interview with Kristin Dos Santos (E!’s “Watch With Kristin”).

Congrats to them!!

I actually love the name Gideon. Harper is beautiful too, although popular. Can’t wait to see pics.

Congrats to them!!

haha…I was going to name my future daughter Harper Grace (I put it in one of those online name savers about 2 years ago and about 3 moths ago looked it up to see what I had chosen then). I can’t believe how popular it’s become since!

OK Kara, what’s weird? Committed, long-term relationships? Names that aren’t inanimate objects or countries? Hiding behind the anonimity of your computer keyboard to spew hatred and bigotry? Can you elaborate?

David does “have” other children. Its not a secret. Neil mentioned them in several interviews. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwaVk3yXyPk) From what I understand David started dating a guy while the guy was already in the process of having kids. They are not technically David’s kids. I suppose its like dating a woman who is already pregnant. You build a strong bond with the children, but they are not technically your kids.

D- No one’s asking you to. 🙂

Anyway, congrats to them! 🙂

Congrats! So happy for them, I’m so glad they had twins, double the joy! Plus they get to experience raising both genders, so that’s great. I like the names, plus it’s their children so their choice. Harper is a pretty name, it’s becoming popular among celebrities, but it won’t be too popular like Emma, Ava, Grace etc… those just seem to be the classics that will be around for a long time and nothing wrong with that.

Go Meghan!

I am so in love with both of those names. I was thinking of Harper Grace if we had a girl. We had a boy. I feel like I need a little stamper that says, “Approved”. Congratulations to the happy family!

Odd…All the comments left were from females…Don’t any guys care about the twin babes?

cute names, even though I really don’t like Gideon and only somewhat like Harper! They sound cute and normal enough together though. What is their last name? do they use both?

I’m so happy for Neil and David on their twin son and daughter. The names are cute. I like that they chose Gideon for the boy. Haven’t seen it used very much, and I think it’s a cool name. 🙂

Popular names are popular for a reason! While I understand that it’s nice to see some variety (I’m a Jennifer, after all), there are only sooo many names to go around for the thousands of babies born every day. Dig out those old high school US History textbooks when we were all John, George, David, Mary, Elizabeth… Power to the parents to find the name that is perfect to them!

Congrats! I love NPH!!

And Harper is our girl name! I have loved it for years

Congrats! I love the middle names!

Hey Meghan…simmer down!

Congrats on healthy babies!

Hannah- “You build a strong bond with the children, but they are not technically your kids.” I have a feeling Seal would strongly disagree with you! As we all know, Heidi was pregnant with Leni when he met her. She may have not been Seal’s bioloically, but Seal has treated that little girl like his own from day one….and, of course, has now adopted her. 🙂

So it’s not always true that children your partner is already “working on” when you meet, aren’t really yours. 🙂

Harper Grace is such a pretty girl’s name. They did good. ^-^ I’m warming to Gideon. It sounds like the name of a magician, which NPH is all about. 😛 I’m so happy for their new family! There’s gonna be so much love… ❤

yay for Barney/Scooter! ^^

wonderful! congrats to the happy parents!

i love how i met your mother AND i’ve got a boy/girl twin set with the girl named harper grace 🙂 why couldn’t they name the boy lucas? 😀 jk

Angela, Bigots don’t deserve respect. If you have a problem with gay parents you are a bigot and you will get negative responses back. If you can’t handle that then don’t make an ignorant homophobic remark.

Grrreeeeaaaat. The dissemination of the family continues. Stories like these just make me sad. Two innocent babies will grow up without a mother and everyone thinks it’s normal. Sigh…

Amanda – do you have any idea how many children are raised by only one parent? Either mother or father? Or how many children are mistreated by parents who don’t want them? These precious babies are going to be raised by loving parents and that’s all that matters. How about focusing on the kids and what they need instead of on the sex of their parents.

Congrats to NPH and David! As a mom of twins, I feel obligated to warn them that they will most likely have no memory of the next 12 months as it will be just a sleepless blur. But worth every weary moment!

BTW, I love the names! So much better than some other wacky celebrity picks. LOL!

Angela, What is immature and uncalled for is writing ‘so weird’ and ducking for cover. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but Kara needs to grow a big girl spine and voice her opinion like an adult and not come across little girl who is finding out what ‘gay’ is for the first time ever in her life. I am sorry for being confrontational, but I am sick to death of people passing judgement on gays like it impacts their life in any way. What Neil Patrick Harris and David Burkta do with their lives has NOTHING to do with the quality of YOUR life. So let them live their lives!

Congratulations to the couple! Very exciting to have both a boy and a girl! 🙂 Love the name choices too! 🙂

To all the people leaving snide comments about gay parents raising these kids….you have no idea what it is like to be in their situation and you need to understand that love is what it is. Do you think gay people WANT to be gay? I hate it that people seem to think that gay people are “choosing” the lifestyle. There is NO choice in being gay. The choice is whether or not to live a LIE.

I have met and known TWO different families that were destroyed by a man and a woman living a lifestyle that they weren’t being true to and because of fear of being hated or hurt or outcast by society…they did the societal norm and had families and couldn’t handle it as they aged and came out of the closet. These families were destroyed. Shattered. Not because the parent was being selfish but because the parent was being untrue to themselves their entire life and afraid of what could possibly happen to them from closed-minded, bigoted, hateful people who have brains the size of peas and whose hearts are about as Christian as the Devil.

You know there was a time when women had no rights? Do you know there was a time when Americans owned and condoned slavery? A time when African Americans and White people couldn’t marry each other? Do you think these things were good for the country? If so, you have no hope in your closed minded, blackened heart. Let people LOVE who they want to love. Love is love. These kids are going to grow up with parents that find them beautiful and accept them for who they are. That is what is important. All a child needs in life is someone who loves and supports them.

As for those people upset that there is a lack of a female in the lives of the kids that will hinder them….are you serious? Have you ever MET a gay couple???? Those kids are going to be surrounded by women who love and adore them and there will NEVER be a lack of femininity around them.

God, some people are just idiots. I can’t stand people who HATE. And YES, that is EXACTLY what you are doing when you are saying, “I don’t condone this type of lifestyle.” You are judging and hating. You are being prejudiced.

It’s friggin 2010….grow a pair and start being tolerant of others. Look at all these suicides and all of the mass bullying that is going around in schools. It’s because of parents LIKE YOU who teach your kids that anything “different” is a target punching bag. YOU are the ones that aren’t normal. You are the ones that need to learn what love really means.

I agree Rye and Erika. Then again we still have people against interracial relationships and bi-racial children. I worry at times that we are going backwards and not forwards.

Congratulations to Neil and David. I can tell from my own experience, having friends who are gay with children or have been raised by gay parents, tell you that children with gay parents fare very well, most have been happy, well rounded and successful, and most of all, very much wanted and loved. The only ones who have been faring ill are the ones who’s parents either came out when the children were in their teens or whose partners took very badly too it (I know one whose mother badmouthed the father and prevented the children from seeing him after he came out, but I think all children would fare ill from that). Point is, your children will be doing beautifully!

I was adopted at age 7 by my two fathers. Before that, I’d lived in 5 foster homes.

It makes me very, very sad to hear people say that gay people shouldn’t be allowed to adopt. What I wanted, at age 7, was a HOME. A permanent home, where I could unpack and know that I’d never have to leave. I didn’t care if it was one mom, or one dad or a mom and a dad or two dads or two moms. I just wanted someone to say “yes, we (I) love you and want you to be our (my) daughter and we’ll take care of you and help you grow up.”

I suppose some of you think I should have remained in foster care until I aged out, waiting for a “perfect” family, never living in one house for more than a year, never having any stability or permanence in my life? Newsflash: not many older kids are adopted by those perfect families that consist of a mom and a dad and a picket fence.

I have the BEST parents in the world. You will never understand the change they made in my life, and you will also never understand the pain I feel when people suggest that they had no right to be my Dads.

I didn’t miss out on ANYTHING by not having a mom and to suggest otherwise is a disservice to the wonderful job my Dads did raising me. I had many aunts and two grandmoms I could have turned to if I needed “feminine” advice, but you know what? I never did. Because I had two fathers who were honest and caring and never made me feel like they were embarrassed or uncomfortable with my questions or needs.

I know it’s been said before, but people don’t seem to understand it: gay people are just like the rest of “you”. Many of them want to meet a nice person, fall in love, get married, make a home and have a family. Those experiences shouldn’t be exclusive to straight people.

Congratulations to NPH and his partner. And an even bigger congratulations to Gideon and Harper, for being born into a loving family.

Michelle, you made me tear up a little, thank you so much for sharing your story!! *hugs*

that is so cool………..good luck and enjoy.

I wonder what some of you think of the cultures where only women raise the kids and the men are nearly completely absent? Where your grandma, aunt and cousin have the same importance and role as your birth mother and so on?

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NEW FATHERS!!! they will be great parents!
seriously people it is an open post but if you don’t agree in their same sex relationship you don’t have to leave a comment. this is mainly for their fans to say congrats and best of luck. not for rude ignorant people to say that their relationship is wrong, or that they shouldn’t have kids because their gay, or that kids should be raised by a mother and a father. the twins aren’t your kids so it’s not your choice how or by who they are raised.

Congrats to NPH and David! Gideon is an adorable name!

For all of the people saying that gay marriage is wrong, in the states that they have allowed gay marriage, it shows a drastic difference in the divorce rates. Half of the straight marriages end in divorce, on the contrary, there have been very FEW gay marriages ending in divorce.

Also, kids raised by gay couples are more open, and accepting, which the world could really use because of imbeciles like you who think it is “unnatural” to have a family that doesn’t consist of a man and a woman. Again, what about single women and men? There have been a number of children from single parents who have become imensely successful, our President comes to mind. If gay relationships are so “unnatural” and condoned by your God, then why would your God put homosexuals on this earth to begin with? Really makes you think. For the record, i’m 16 and have way more acceptance for others and love for anyone, regardless of gender, race, or sexuality than you do.

Is it wrong that I’m kind of bummed that they used Gideon, haha. That is what we named our 9 month old, and we liked that it wasn’t a common name. It’s such a wonderful strong name, I just hope that it doesn’t become as common as Harper is becoming. Never thought that our son could possibly be Gideon #4 in the classroom 0.o.

I am so happy for Neil and David! Thank you Michelle for your beautiful post. I teared up while reading it and it really touched me.

Congrats to both of them on the birth of their babies 😀 I don’t mind the name Harper but wouldnt necessarily name my daughter that, not a fan of the name Gideon, havent liked it for a long time cant recall why?? lol As for the common middle name ‘Grace’ I would have loved to have called my daughter Maddison, Maddison Grace, but she got my middle name of Anne which is very common too, yes but her brothers middle name is the same as his father’s so had to keep the trend up. Grace is such a beautiful, peaceful, pretty name why complain? Now the 80s trend of using ‘Lee’ and ‘Maree’ in every girls middle name is one I wasnt a fan of but Grace stands the test of time. Just wondering who is the biological father of the twins? Or do they have one each ?

Congrats!

For experience watch the movie “Three men and a little baby” and then call your mom if you have to.

So much ignorance and intolerance from people leaving comments, it’s really heart breaking 😦

Just because they don’t have a mother doesn’t mean they won’t have female role models in their lives. Also yeah people don’t choose to have feelings for others of the same sex. I have a feeling most of the gay lesbian transgender people if they could, would want to choose a lifestyle away from all the hatred and scrutiny. For all I know some of you hopped on the “let’s hate gays” bandwagon because it seems like everyone and their brother is doing it. God forbid you have a different opinion than everyone else!! How would you feel if it was “weird” and “not normal” to be straight and hetero and you and your partner of a different sex wanted to raise children? Living with being ostracized everyday because of something you want to do like the rest of society?? Not very good right?

Shame on all of you.

I wish these two and every other same sex couple who want to have or are raising children the best and lots of love!!

KIDS deserve a MOTHER too! Wow, how selfish. Feel sorry for the twins who will never know what it’s like to have a mom, but only 2 gay dads. Enjoy your future family counseling sessions!