Inside Julia Styles’ Mom Life With 3 Kids, Husband Preston Cook

While Julia Stiles‘ Dancing With the Stars journey doesn’t get underway until Sept. 15, she has not been saving her moves for the ballroom.

Her sons with husband Preston Cook—Strummer, 8, Arlo, 4, and Henry, 2—”see me dance every day and every night in my kitchen and in the living room,” the actress, who’s partnering with pro Ezra Sosa, told E! News after the season 35 cast was announced. “They’re like, ‘There goes Mommy again.'”

But, she admitted, “in the outfits and the heels—and in that ballroom—yeah, it’s pretty special.”

And in this case, taking her work home with her is fun for the whole family.

She’ll pick her kids up “and I’m practicing the dance holding them,” she explained. “And my husband will just stand there and I’ll twirl around him.”

But if this seems like a surprising step for the 10 Things I Hate About You alum to take, it isn’t. Not even a little bit, not even at all.