Water gun fights are the best!
While most shops, restaurants, malls, and playgrounds have reopened here we still do not take the girls out much. One reason is that we aren't clear if most places will allow Caroline in because she cannot wear a mask and another reason is because Eleanor doesn't have the discipline to keep her mask on for more than 2 minutes at a time. Thus we spend most of our time at home.
Because of this, we have spent our evenings playing outside. The girls enjoy riding their bikes in the street or taking walks and counting all the stray cats we see.
Coincidentally our neighbors also spend this time of day playing outside so we have gotten to know them. They have two boys who are close to Laurel and Eleanor's ages. They have become fast friends. The boys (and their parents) speak some English and are very helpful in teaching us Indonesian.
Kali enjoys chatting with the mom as they watch the children play. This helps her improve her Indonesian while making a new friend.
The kids love having bike races, running races, water fights, nerf gun wars, playing tag or hide and seek. It's wonderful to see the girls play so freely and make new friends. They were feeling lonely after the pandemic started because their expat friends had moved back to their home countries to wait out the pandemic.
While I wish we had the freedom to go more places, if we did we might not have become friends with our neighbors.
Bike races with the neighbor boys.
These kittens appeared at the coffee shop next door. We visit them often.