Picking up Akvila

It has been a trying morning.  We left the apartment around 10:30 to go pick her up.  We took some gift bags for the kids and presents for her care takers.  We arrived and she started to cry.  She did not want to leave her friends.  She did not want me to come anywhere near her.  The caregivers and social workers spent about 30 minutes talking to her and she finally calmed down and I had her give the presents out to the kids.  She was doing fine until they took her to change her clothes.  She came out and started to cry because she knew this meant she was leaving.  It was then we started to head for the door and she had a screaming fit.  One of the social workers was able to calm her by telling her she would come with us.

We left a little while later and headed for the passport office.  She had to have her picture taken and she was tentative but ok at that point.  Afterward we got in the taksi to go back toward the apartment.  Rather than coming right in the social worker walked with us to the grocery store and shortly after we went in I took Akvila toward the curd bars I know she likes and when I turned around the social worker was gone.  Almost immediately Akvila started asking where she was.  I managed to get her to the register and check out quickly.  We got outside and she kept asking where she was and I kept saying lets go.  We walked across the street and she started to have a meltdown.  I quickly set my stuff down and hugged her tight while she kept wanting to get back in a taksi and go back to the orphanage.  I ended up having to pick her up and carry her to the apartment because if I set her down she kept pulling away and I thought she would run. 
 About halfway back to the apartment I stopped and put her on my back piggy back style and she calmed down but asked where we were going. 

We got into the apartment and she looked around and started to cry.  It took a few minutes but she has calmed down and is watching cartoons.  She is not her playful self but that will come with time.  We are going to have some lunch in a few minutes. 

I will update you all later today on how it goes from here.