Katherine Schwarzenegger shared insight into her home life with her three young children on Wednesday, and shone a light on the bond between her father, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and his adoring grandkids.
The 36-year-old took to Instagram to share a carousel of photos from her daily life, including a snap of her one-year-old son, Ford, playing with a dog.
She also posted a picture of her girls, Lyla, five, and Eloise, three, whom she shares with her husband, Chris Pratt, and a throwback shot of her mother, Maria Shriver, and her father in their youth. Katherine simply captioned the post: “Sweetest things.”
The photo that received the most love was one that saw Arnold sitting down and drawing hearts with his two granddaughters in a sweet display of grandfatherly love.
“Wow! Your kids get to color with Papa Terminator!” wrote one fan in the comment section, while another added: “LOVE the girls doing art with your Dad, such a beautiful moment,” and a third shared: “I love how your father is bonding with his granddaughters by making artwork. Together it’s so beautiful.”
Arnold has been open in the past about how much he loves being a grandfather, and shared how different it is to parenting his four children with Maria.
© Instagram“I’ll tell you one thing: it is the easiest thing to be a grandfather. Because they come over to the house, you play with Lyla for around an hour or two, I put her on the horse, I put her with the dog, I play with the dog, and after two hours, they leave. Over. It’s fantastic, I tell you,” he said on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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The former Governor of California added that he tries to help with diaper duty, but Katherine is particular about her method. “I did all of that when I had kids,” he explained.
“When my kids were growing up, I participated, and it was a lot of fun to do that. But I have never changed diapers on Lyla, because I think that Katherine is the expert gatekeeper. She just, whenever you touch the baby, says, ‘Oh, my god! Oh, my god! Like this.'”
© Amanda Edwards“I said, ‘Katherine, come on, now. I’ve held enough children in my hands. I know exactly what I’m doing. I’m an expert in that stuff,'” he continued. “She just freaks out and does it. [But] I think it’s natural.”
© NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal viaMaria is also a doting grandmother, whose advice Katherine often turns to in times of need.
“If I have moments of feeling overwhelmed about things, I always think, what would my mom do? Because growing up, she had four kids under eight years old, a big career, a husband with a big career, a very big family…and I remember just watching her do it all with such ease and such grace – and also having so much fun doing it,” she shared on the Meaning Full Living podcast.
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