Picking Up A Box

This is Ellie my little model in Maya showing how to pick up a box in Maya which is much harder to do then what it looks. It took me a few attempts before I was able to create a successful model that was able to pick up the box correctly.
The walk up to the boxes isn't the best and does bring the animation down so I will need to improve that next time I do an animation like this.But the main focus of this animation was to pick up a box and then let is go to show that I can link and un-link the box from whatever soucre I want to connect it to. That was my main goal of this exercises and I believe that I achieved that goal well as you can see,Ellie can pick up and put down the box.

These are a two testers I did before I created Ellie.