Knowledge and Grace

Dear Gran,

Today was a glorious day. Our daughter and your 4th great grand daughter was born, completing our pigeon pair as you delightfully called it. She's the spitting image of Jake (and also an old Russian woman!) and the sad tinge on an otherwise joyous day is that you didn't get to meet her, though you did know she was coming.

I wanted to explain her name to you as it's full of little cryptic secrets that I think you would have liked. She's been born exactly halfway in between your and Peggy's birthday and whilst she didn't get to meet you, we wanted her to carry a part of each of you with her. To this end, Sophia is also the Greek word for wisdom, which is the key trait Kelsey and I associate with you, whilst Grace is the key characteristic for Peggy, so she carries both of your best traits with her.

She's a Forbes Wolfson (no hyphen) like Jake, which means that when she gets to school, we're probably going to register her as Sophia Grace Wolfson, so she doesn't have to explain the two surname thing as well as learn to write and spell both! Grace Me Guide is the Forbes family motto (from Scotland), so she'll carry both sides of her family with her as well.

I wish you'd been here to see her as I think she's gorgeous. I'll keep you posted with our little family's adventures on here as I know that you would have liked that. To start, here's a pic that I would have emailed you to savour till we saw you in person.

Ben