The big news this week was Calvin's first piano recital, which went swimmingly and was loved by all. But before that, on Friday we drove to Grand Rapids to meet a special new baby visiting from Seattle, on Saturday we drove to Ikea to spend our garage sale money on the bookshelves we've always wanted to have covering the wall in our playroom (pictured here on Tuesday with a cat in them), and through the rest of the week we too Paddington for a walk, spent a day at the zoo, and found an intriguing spider in our neighborhood.