Ellorah is 3 months old today!

Ellorah Ohana has been here for 3 months now, and what a joy she has been!

In the past three months, Norm and I have had countless questions about our daughters name, so for those of you who don't know, I thought I would explain it for her 3 month bday, and why we kept it a secret until she was here, much to the dismay of family and friends!

Ellorah is the name of a little redheaded baby princess from the '90s movie, Willow, starring Val Kilmer and Warwick Davis (who now plays Professor Flitwick in all the Harry Potter movies - yes, I'm a Harry Potter geek, I know). In the movie, the name is spelled "Elora" but I liked my spelling better. I saw this movie when I was in high school, and always had it in the back of my head, if I ever had a daughter, that would have to be her name. Once Norm and I found out we were having a girl, her name was set! And it's pronounced "ELLE oruh" like saying the letter "L" and adding "laura". The middle name was a little tougher, finding something that went well with Ellorah. I was stuck for quite some time, until one night I was at home, watching our wedding video(Norm and I got married in Kauai) and heard Monulele (the lady who married us) speaking about "ohana" in our vows...she talked about the "ohana who are always around us in spirit...or even those ohana we haven't even met yet"..."Ohana" is Hawaiian for family..and since that's exactly what miss Ellorah made us, it fit perfectly. Now, for the reason we kept it so secretive? Come on, people...there are so few surprises in life and this was one of them! Our friends and family had a heck of a time trying to figure it out...I did give clues...it started with an E...and was more than 5 letters...but I knew they'd never figure it out. : ) The closest guess was from Aunt Devon, with Eleanor...or "Ellie" for short (and no, we don't want to start calling her Ellie, just so you know.) Other good guesses were Evelyn, Elaine, Esther...and some crazy ones like Euphagania, Elwood, Elvira...etc etc...but, she is and will always be, our little Ellorah Ohana and we love her very much!