pics, more words, new playgroup, and a mac

Lily got out her first 2 word phrase last night. Matt and I were playing with her and she wanted me to keep doing what I was doing. After I would finish, she would say "do gin" as in short for "do it again." What a little smartie! More new words: belly button, keys, kiss. The list just keeps growing. This month has felt like she just keeps figuring out more and more sounds. Anytime she sees anything that even looks like a dog now she says "woof woof." It's so very cute.
Tomorrow Lily and I are trying out a new playgroup. This will be our 2nd attempt at a new one. I actually found this one on meetup.com through searching for christian mom playgroups. So I guess we'll see how it goes! I'm being very brave because the playgroup tomorrow is at one of the mom's house. This group seems to have a lot more activities and at times that fit around Lily's nap schedule. Plus it's mainly for moms who have kids that were born in 2007 (lily's birth year).Last night I got a call from the music director at our church asking me to play for wednesday night service. I had a feeling that once we moved here I would be getting calls to play when my mom is out of town. This week she has been at my sister's house. It went okay - thankfully familiar music that wasn't too hard. I am just NOT a fan of playing in public or for other people.

I haven't mentioned this yet but we are supposedly going to be getting a BIG refund from the IRS. Yay!!! I mean I was VERY VERY surprised at the amount. Matt has been wanting to get a Macbook to use for work. Most of the youth group stuff runs off of a mac currently but that one is owned by someone else in the church. Plus he needs a good computer for his office. And of course he just wants to have one in general. So me being the generous loving wife agreed to let him use some of the money we're getting to get him a new Macbook. He went to get it today and he is in heaven! The other money is wisely being put to some financial things we need to take care of. So thank you IRS!!! We don't get these treats very often and haven't been able to really make any personal purchases the last year before Matt got his new job. I'm still waiting for my minivan. :)And finally I forgot to mention that on Monday we went to order our new tv console. Yay!!! I'm SOO excited. We need to get a few things for our new house (larger purchases) but will have to gradually work on it. The tv console was the most important thing at this point. With our bigger tv, video game stuff, and now a big cox dvr/hd box, we definitely need something bigger to accomodate everything. Plus ours has a big glass door which always worries me with a toddler in the house. There isn't an actual picture of it online but it's part of the Sterling Collection at VCF. So you can get an idea of the style of it. We're supposed to be able to pick it up the first week in March, just in time for my birthday!Lily's new way to use her walker turned wagon: