Rebecca and Eric Brumble married in 2013 after first living in an Upper Darby town house, then a home in Essington, writes Anndee Hochman for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Rebecca’s came from a large Italian family and wanted children.

She had to talk Eric into having children, worried about the responsibility and being older parents.

“It took a little mental wrangling — a matter of saying, ‘It’s OK to be well into my retirement when my daughters go to college’ ”, Eric said.

They turned to an adoption agency in November 2014. The call came six months later. Olivia was eight days old at Jefferson University Hospital being treated for neonatal abstinence syndrome.

They brought Olivia home the day before her one-month birthday.

At age 3, Olivia started asking about little brothers and sisters. The couple started the adoption process again.

They met Kennedy moments after her birth. She, too, was withdrawing from in-utero drug exposure, and remained in the hospital for 15 days. Finally, they brought her home.

There was Olivia — eyes wide, mouth agape — asking, “Is she real? Can I touch her?” as she reached toward her baby sister.

Read more about Eric and Rebecca, and daughters Olivia and Kennedy here.

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