6. Sylvie; their adopted child
When Dave and Jenny Marrs started talking about adopting a child, they already had twin sons named Nathan and Ben. They investigated a range of foreign adoption programs.
They discovered the profile of a little girl in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in November 2012 and immediately recognized her as their daughter. Jenny and Dave adopted Sylvie from the Central African nation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. By August 2013, the legal matters had been resolved, making her their legitimate daughter.
But it wasn’t that easy to bring her to the US. At the time, the Congolese government shut down, and because exit letters had been prohibited, no adopted kid was permitted to leave. Dave set out to bring Sylvie home because Jenny was also expecting Charlotte and was unable to go due to her high-risk pregnancy.
After just over 600 days, Dave and Jenny finally held their daughter in their arms on July 8, 2014, when Sylvie was two and her foster mother had been given permission to travel her to the United States.