Yesterday was such a wonderful day for us and such an incredibly scary and confusing day for Priscilla. I was a ball of nerves all morning (our meeting time got moved to 3pm). I tried to keep busy, but of course couldn't concentrate on much.

When the time came to finally leave we headed down to the lobby to meet David and the other family from Georgia. Side note, they are wonderful, sweet, Godly people. It has been nice being able to talk to them (they've adopted twice before and now have 7 children in total). David has also been fantastic. He's has been a huge help and has taken an interest in getting to know us. We spent 6 hours in the car together today and that helped too. I feel really awful about my negative thoughts a couple of days ago!!

Once we arrived at the Civil Affairs office we watched the other family welcome their new daughter. It was beautiful to watch and also made my stomach even more crazy. Jiao Jiao (Priscilla's nickname at the orphanage and the name we are calling her for now to try to help her transition) was stuck in traffic and was running late. They arrived over an hour later.

The orphanage director was caring her when they came in. I had hoped we could ease into the handoff, play with her for a bit in familiar arms...but that's not how it works. You are expected to take her, so I did what I was told. Oh goodness, she was terrified. Sweet girl. She didn't like either of us and wanted nothing to do with anything I tried. When she finally calmed down a little bit she enjoyed looking outside. She would only cry if she look at me or Mitchell. It was heartbreaking.

After an hour of paperwork, we headed back to the hotel to get to know each other. Bless her heart, she did everything to not have to look at us. She wanted nothing to do with us.

We tried to ease into things, not wanting to rush anything or make her situation even more uncomfortable. She was interested in some of the toys, but still didn't want to look at us. She's basically collapsed her body in had when she was sitting. When we picked her up she was completely limp. She wouldn't move her arms, legs or even her hands. We were a bit worried, but also know she'd just had the worst day of her life.

Then we had a bit of a breakthrough, we got her to eat!! We'd learned from the orphanage director she'd never had anything besides formula (every 3 hrs). They recommended we start solids with congee (think a sticky rice soup), but instead we gave her apple sauce. She LOVED it!! After that she tolerated me a little more. She allowed me to change her diaper and I even got my first hug!!

She slept like a rockstar last night. She went to bed at 9pm (same time as at the orphanage) and got up at 7am. They had said she takes bottles in the middle of the night, but I was thankful she didn't wake up. After such a stressful day, she was completely exhausted. Sweet girl.