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Just a quick note to let everyone know that we got home safe and sound yesterday. Mariana woke up all night long the night before last with a snotty nose. Of course we didn't realize what that would look like because in 4+ weeks of knowing her she hadn't yet had a cold. When we finally turned on the lights at 3 am after hearing her gurgle but fall back to sleep all night, we found our beautiful daughter's face slick and shiny. She'd rubbed and buffed snot into her entire face all night as it ran out of her nose, forming a nice thick layer of crust. The poor thing didn't know what to do with all that stuff. Hilary has the cold too but the plane was mercifully uneventful. Although only 8 months old she's already been on 2 continents and obtained 2 citizenship's. She's a prodigy I'm telling you.

Her first night in Brooklyn was more of the same with her waking up gurgling. Her mother though had crafted the brilliant solution of letting sleep in the car seat, propped up and therefore much more able to breathe. So there we were back in our own bed- Hilary on one side, me on the other and a friggin' car seat in bed between us just like pictured all those nights before. Ok, not really but at least Mariana was able to sleep a little better. 

We bought Chinese food on the way home and found our house and kitty in fine order. Our friend Talia from the neighborhood had come over and put a few things in our refrigerator to get us started: a carton of milk, a few mangoes and a bar of chocolate.What a sweetheart huh? Mariana will now begin receiving visitors who don't care to about being sneezed on or have their faces and glasses grabbed at with snotty fingers.