We're home!

There is so much excitement in our home! Little Leonardo is such a cutie and the boys just love him! He's doing just fine... we all had dinner together and Gregory and Louis are very excited and already want to know when he can start playing with them. Here are a couple of recent pictures:

Benvenuto Leonardo Benedetto!

We are pleased to announce the arrival of the third Martin boy: Leonardo Bendetto. Leonardo arrived at 7:27am on November 7th, 2008. He weighed 7lbs, 3 oz. and had blond fuzz. Theresa labored for a very long time and gave birth to Leonardo naturally after only 2 pushes (she was amazing, much to the doctor's dismay who didn't have time to get his gloves on... they in fact told Theresa to stop pushing... yeah, right)!

Leonardo is named after Pete's maternal grandfather Leonard and Pope St. Leo the Great. Benedetto is Italian for Benedict, our current Pope. Leonardo has not "transitioned" well and has been in NICU. His breathing was fast and his blood sugar was low. Being that he was born 1 day before the 38th week, he is technically considered a premie, but all is well now. They just want to make sure that everything is perfect before allowing him into the room with Theresa (which should be soon).

We hope to have Theresa and Leonardo join us at home tomorrow (Sunday), but who knows. Theresa's mother Liz will visit on Monday and stay the week and then my parents will be in town on the 18th and stay for a week. We thank everyone for your prayers and will update this with more pictures when we have Leonardo closer to us!




































Gregory and Louis love to visit and play in the room... they're anxious to meet Leonardo... they saw him from a distance, but since they've both had colds recently, they're not allowed into NICU.

Happy 2nd Birthday Louis!

There has been a lot of excitement around this place! Louis turned two and has also turned into our mockingbird... he repeats everything!



We also celebrated All Saints Eve. The boys got a head start -- on Thursday Sarah, one of the interns at Pete's work, invited us over to the campus of Catholic University to Trick-or-Treat. Here is Buzz Lightyear and his little buddy, Woody... what a couple of cuties!



We've had some very good news lately... Pete was asked to continue his work "remotely" because they were unable to find someone to replace him. He is anxious to get his laptop so that he can work from home although I'm sure he'll really miss going in to work everyday! ;)

The new baby seems anxious to see what all the excitement is about as he continues to push on his mommy and make it uncomfortable (to say the least). The doctors have decided to induce early to help relieve mommy's pain which is great news for all of us as we are all anxious to meet "rocket baby".

With this news (we just found out yesterday)... we have decided to move down to New Orleans early! Pete is going to postpone the defense of his thesis, but will finish the semester of classes. His plan to take time off by calling in sick with a bad case of the "Gottawriteathesis" virus didn't really seem like such a good idea considering the fact that they were nice enough to keep him on! Anyway, he'll finish his thesis and defend it in the Spring.

It will be nice to be home again especially with three children! Please pray for us... we have found the cutest house that we would just love to move into on the first of the year, but we need your prayers to make it work! Thank you!

If you made it this far... here's a couple of treats for you!