>> when is tadpole season?>> you are exactly right. >> they survived years of fishing. >> reporter: two boys in the neighborhood drainage ditch trying to catch tadpoles they could grow into frogs. >> there's a big one over there. this is all you. oh, yes. >> reporter: and it's that childhood innocence and pure joy that bruce wanted ben to teach his girls. >> he is my tadpole. he is that friend who was there at the beginning who came back at a moment of possible ending to remind me where we came from. >> reporter: an important voice for the girls and the council, a voice that when added to the five others created a support system for the girls. and surprisingly for bruce. >> we did it for the girls, but it really has changed us because it's created this new community in our lives. i hope you don't see these images until you're old with kids of your own, but whenever you see them, you will know, please, i did it for you. love, dad. >> reporter: the next morning was the surgery. >> what's today? >> tuesday, decemb