School Challenge and More

Madeleine had a group project at school called an "Airplane Challenge."  She and several classmates had to create an airplane using five pennies, four paper clips, three pieces of paper, eight pieces of tape, and their own brains.  While Madeleine's group succeeded in getting their airplane to fly, she herself clearly wasn't feeling too confident about their chances:

How did you feel about this challenge?
terrified and maybe even petrified.


Wow.  Those are some heavy feelings for a first grade in-class project.  I'm glad it all worked out in the end.  It's not like they had to design an ACTUAL airplane that people were going to ride on.  The cost of failure would have been a LOT higher in that case.  I guess Madeleine is gonna take her perfectionist attitudes with her wherever she goes.

While she may be afraid to fail on an airplane challenge, Madeleine isn't too worried about being wrong at home.  And Julia isn't hesitant to point out Madeleine's shortcomings.

ME: Julia, look at this! (pointing to an ad in the newspaper about Hamilton coming to Boston)
JULIA: (nearly hyperventilating with excitement) Can we see Hamilton when it comes to Boston???
MADELEINE: Uh, Julia...what about...you know.
JULIA: What?
MADELEINE: Alexander Hamilton?  He DIED?
JULIA: (scathingly) Madeleine, it's not the REAL Alexander Hamilton that sings on the soundtrack.
MADELEINE: Oh.  Is it, like, someone named Hamilton Alexander?

I guess all this time Madeleine thought we had a rare historical recording of in-the-flesh Alexander Hamilton singing hip hop about his current life situation.  Once Burr shot him dead, hopes of anyone ever seeing the musical just flew out the window.

Hmm.  Do you think Madeleine thinks it's really Jesus singing on our CD of "Jesus Christ, Superstar?"  I'll have to find out!