>>>>I'm a new father
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>>>Way to go! Boy or a girl? Pictures, we need pictures!
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>>A little Girl. Sofia. Pictures coming.
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>WOW. Bulgarian capital is also named to the the name of Saint Sofia.
>And it celebrate his day on the day of St.Sofia daughters - Faith, Hope and Love.

That was one of the inspirations for the name, and definitely the spelling. In 1999 my (now wife) and I were in Central Europe on vacation. We planned to go to Sofia, but never made it, but the name really stuck with us.