Cops were still canvassing Canarsie looking for the mom about 6:15 p.m. on Sunday when the photo of the pink bubbly popped up. It was an odd time for a celebration.
Two-year-old Dominae and Diani, 3, were found in front of the Bay View Houses about 2:40 p.m. Police say their mother, Dalisha Adams, abandoned them. The single mom was busted about 11 p.m. - more than four hours after the head-scratching Facebook post.
Adams, 26, was awaiting arraignment late Monday on two counts of child endangerment.
There was no signs of abuse, although neighbors said Adams often cursed at the kids and gave them a tongue-lashing hours before they were ditched.
The girls - bundled in coats and UGG boots and clutching diapers - were left down the street from where their grandmother lives.
But the grandmother said she had no idea they were there and found out only from the tots' story on the front page of the Daily News.
"I would have took them," said the grandma, Bertha Davia. "All she had to do was call."
Davia's son Shawn Cobbs is the girls' father. Adams has accused him of domestic violence several times.
On Sunday, he and Adams had an argument over the kids.
"She wanted him to take the kids, and he told her he didn't have a stable place to take the kids," Davia said. "She must have got mad, dressed them kids and brought them here."
Officers Edgard Centeno, 44, and Billy Morales, 30, said the adorable preschoolers were bewildered.
"She left me and she drove off," Diani told them.
"They were calm but they were just huddled close together," Centeno said. "They were standing by each other very close. They were, I guess, a little afraid that they were alone."
The Administration for Children's Services, which may have known the family because of the domestic violence case, helped cops identify the girls.
About 10:10 p.m., police used a crowbar to open the door of the Breukelen Houses apartment where Adams lives with Dominae and Diani. An 8-year-old daughter was staying with her aunt.
Adams, a security guard, apparently heard through an intermediary that cops were looking for her and walked into the 69th Precinct stationhouse sometime after 11 p.m.
A close friend said Monday she didn't believe Adams left the girls on the street, saying she doted on the children.
But a Breukelen Houses neighbor said the mom seemed at her wit's end.
"She was always yelling at the kids, ‘Shut the f--k up,'" said the neighbor.
"One day, I heard her curse out the little baby, ‘I'll punch you in the f-----g face.'"
She said she heard another blowup on Sunday, not long before the girls were found.
"A kid was crying," the neighbor said. "She was saying, ‘Stop crying. Shut the f--k up. I'm gonna get you out of here.'"
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