so much they adopted four more little kid, three of them from ukraine. alexus from the first set of four followed her father everywhere. was his little shadow. you kind of idolized him? >> i did. i wanted to follow in his fo footstep in some way. i became a doctor because of him. >> reporter: for people from the outside looking in, what would they say? >> a very happy family and a mother who loved her children and a father who was a physician and an attorney and present a lot in their children's lives. >> reporter: rachel, the eldest, shared her father's love of books. >> remembe when i was little just holding on to my father's hand and just to walk with him and he was daddy's little girl. >> reporter: and their mother michelle? >> she was an amazing and beautiful person on the inside and out. >> reporter: and so it went for