After all the waiting, we have some exciting news to tell you, but even though the post is titled "Winter Excitement," this has absolutely NOTHING to do with all of the winter weather we've been having! We have much more exciting news than that to post about!
We have been matched with our little one! We cannot give away details yet until we receive our LOA (letter of approval) from China, but we can tell you this bit of news.
It all began back in December, just before Christmas. We saw our little guy on our agency's site, and immediately inquired about him, not knowing his specific special need at the time. The agency responded and told us what the need was. Because we were unfamiliar with it, we initially declined looking further into adopting him.
However, we didn't stop thinking about him. One day in late January, I caught myself looking into his mini bio on the agency site again. The next day, I saw Howie doing the same thing, and this time, there was a video. We watched him and fell in love. He immediately said, "Can't we do something?" I then saw him go into research mode, and I have never seen him research like that before (and we've done a lot of adoption and adoption-related medical research). On a message board, he found a woman who had two sons with the same condition as ours. We went from there to her blog, and we made contact. She was wonderful! She gave us the name and email address of the world specialist on this condition, and we found out that he's in Ohio-- not too far from us. She assured us that the condition was manageable and explained in detail what her sons went through to manage the condition. Howie and I read about it and said, "Yes, we can definitely do this!"
Shortly after this, we made contact with our agency again, and within ten days we were officially matched! We are THRILLED!!! This past weekend, we sent in our Letter of Intent to Adopt.
Here's a picture of the proud daddy-to-be signing the letter of intent.
And here is a picture of the mommy-to-be doing the same.
We hope and pray to soon receive our LOA from China, which will let us know that we are approved and will travel sometime this summer to pick up our little boy whom we will name Gabriel Song Fischer. :)
Thank you all for your prayers, and we hope you will continue praying with us as we prepare for our trip to China!
Blessings,
Howie and Jenn Fischer
