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Neil Patrick Harris posts photo from twins' first football game

The actor's children, Gideon and Harper, celebrated their sixth birthday Oct. 12.

By Annie Martin
Neil Patrick Harris at the God's Love We Deliver Golden Heart Awards on October 15, 2015. The actor shares 6-year-old twins with husband David Burtka. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI
1 of 3 | Neil Patrick Harris at the God's Love We Deliver Golden Heart Awards on October 15, 2015. The actor shares 6-year-old twins with husband David Burtka. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Neil Patrick Harris treated his twins to their very first football game Sunday.

The 43-year-old actor and husband David Burtka brought their 6-year-old son and daughter, Gideon and Harper, to see the New York Giants play the Philadelphia Eagles at MetLife Stadium.

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"First football game for these two (not quite) giants. Go Big Blue! #nygiants @dbelicious @tizzielisch @mason.lanee," Harris captioned a photo of his children at the game.

Harris and Burtka welcomed Gideon and Harper via surrogate in 2010 and married in 2014 after 10 years of dating. The actor told Us Weekly he and his kids share a love for Disney while serving as master of ceremonies at the Walt Disney Family Museum gala last week.

"I think what's most exciting is our kids have grown up with theme parks as a part of their DNA, and that makes me incredibly happy because that was what I got to do as a kid as well," Harris said.

"Harper's still all-girl and she's very into all the princesses. Gideon's into Star Wars, so when we go [to Disneyland] in December, there's a whole new Star Wars land in there, so he's very excited about that," he revealed.

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"They spend all their time together so it's a little bit of both [fighting and getting along]," the star added. "They have each other's backs, but yet they tell on each other -- a lot. It's the yin and yang of twins, I think!"

First football game for these two (not quite) giants. Go Big Blue! #nygiants @dbelicious @tizzielisch @mason.lanee

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Harris is known for playing Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother, and has since appeared on American Horror Story: Freak Show. He will star as Count Olaf in Netflix's forthcoming adaptation of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.

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