The newest addition to the family has arrived!
Her name is [name_f]Maple[/name_f] [name_f]Josetta[/name_f].
[name_f]Maple[/name_f] is for the Japanese [name_f]Maple[/name_f] trees we enjoyed while my husband and I lived in Japan and the little-known [name_f]Zelda[/name_f] character that my husband finds amusing. [name_f]Josetta[/name_f] was a name we encountered in a novel and liked. We wanted a non-word name to balance out [name_f]Maple[/name_f] and compliment the style of her older sister’s name, [name_f]Betty[/name_f] Nightingale.
[name_f]Maple[/name_f] is being called “[name_f]Mae[/name_f]” by [name_f]Betty[/name_f] who can’t quite say [name_f]Maple[/name_f]. We didn’t anticipate the nickname, but it is fitting since [name_f]Betty[/name_f] is named for their great-grandmother and [name_f]Mae[/name_f] was their great-great grandmother’s name.