Winter Wonderland

Wm has been having a great time with all the snow we've been getting!  It's been too cold for him to go outside at school (when the temp dips below a certain threshold, they keep the kids inside), so we've had to soak up the hour of daylight left when he gets home from school.  But his teachers emailed me today to say that they finally got to go outside today at school and Wm was THRILLED.  They sent this picture of him with a crazy excited look on his face out on the playground at school:

Wm has developed a new hobby.  Kids (and adults) post how-to videos on YouTube showing how they build all sorts of things sans directions and out of the Legos they currently have - basically, going "off grid."  So Wm spends as much time as he can closeted in his room watching said YouTube videos and building things which have no pre-fab kit.  It made Steve nervous that Wm now has the run of the internet, so he downloaded some parental restriction thing that keeps kids from viewing inappropriate content.  Here's what I thought was weird: not showing bad language and sexy-type stuff was free...but it only blocked violence for an added fee!  So, god forbid kids see a bad word or a boob.  But, hey, it's A-OK for them to watch someone getting his arm ripped off and then beaten to death with it.  Where have we gone wrong?  

I am STUFFED.  I just came from out office holiday party where there was an insane amount of food.  I got really nice gifts from my coworkers.  I also managed to snag a little white chocolate snowman for Wm to have after dinner...AND half a pie for Steve!