After we got our referral for Hai ZiWu, we had a frantic weekend of joining Yahoo chatgroups, researching doctors, researching microtia/aural atresia, e-mailing everybody in our address book, etc. I think I dropped just about everything and focused on this cute little guy. I even pulled up weather.com to see what the weather was like over in his neck of the woods.
Part of the paperwork for this step was to do a Letter of Intent, or LOI. We had to write out that we had been in touch with our doctor (in our case the base doctor and the doctor in Cincinnati at the International Adoption Center, the IAC doctor had also consulted with a pediatric craniofacial specialist), had drawn up a rough plan of action, had contacted our insurance company to ensure that we had adequate coverage, and then state in no uncertain terms that we were going to bring him into our family, love him equally, provide for him, and "promise that we would never abuse or abandon him." Our LOI was officially logged in on January 26, 2007.
Our agency predicted that we would travel in the latter part of June or early July. That still seemed like ages - but we had lots to do to fill the time.
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