Oh, for sure. I guess I assumed Bob made the introduction by email. So OP could reply to that intro email with a “Thanks, Bob! Alice, pleasure to meet you, I’ll send you a separate email to introduce myself and blah de blah”.
Acknowledge the email and thank Bob, then drop him from the convo. Regardless, Bob doesn’t need to see the sausage being made.
Without reading your actual email, this all sounds normal to me. Networking is how people get jobs.
I would have probably thanked Bob and dropped him from the email before asking Alice questions. Bob doesn’t need to be on that email once he’s made the introduction.
Adding to Scratch recommendations, look for First Lego League Jr teams in your area for next year. FLL Jr is for ages 6-10. They get simple kits with visual programming, and it preps them for FLL (non-jr) through to FIRST at the high school level.
Accidental? A wayward tap.
You know women does not equal extrovert, I hope?
“Women be bitchy unless I am bitchy first” is just too neatly packaged for internet woman-hating bait. Is this AI or someone trying to karma-farm reddit style?
Hindsight is 20:20. Regardless, I think Bob is overreacting, assuming your email to Alice was in the range of what I personally would write and nothing you said was sparking red flags to me l.