An emotional grandfather couldn’t hold back his tears of joy after discovering that his newborn grandson was named after him after reading the tablet with his name on it. Mike Sheff, 63, had no idea what to expect when he walked into Henrico Doctors Women’s Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, to greet his daughter Jessie Way.
When he and his wife, Julie, 63, saw the newborn boy, Jesse, Julie noticed a name tag: Michael Sheff Way. Not only did Jessie name her child Michael, but his middle name, Sheff, was her maiden name, which she and her sister lost when they married.
Jessie, 33, wanted to keep the name, and when Julie suggested Mike read the tag, it immediately caught fire. Baby Michael was born a few days early, according to Jessie, so she and her 35-year-old husband Barrett kept the name a secret until her parents arrived from Oxford, Ohio.
