the weather makers

The boys are fascinated by the model tornado at the Science Museum of Minnesota; I am, too — it can be visually striking, as in this Hawkeye shot from earlier this year. I’m not sure if nerdiness is a matter of nature — the boys have a civil engineer for a mother and a computer programmer for a father — or nurture — since Mom and Dad like the science museum, the children’s museum, the library, etc., that’s where we go. But they are certainly little nerds of the first order, anxiously awaiting their next science museum workshop.