Drag'n'Drop behind looses target reference

Hi, ok, I’m building a decorate a snow globe ap. The user drags items from a menu and drops them onto the globe.

Here’s the issue:
When the user drags the item and drops it on the globe, I want the glass reflections to be on top of everything so on stopDrag() I then addChild(glassEffectMC) to put the glass on top. But now the item I dropped is no longer available, it’s not hot, I can’t click and drag it again.

Ideas?

All of my events are on the item, the glassEffectMC has no events or interactive functionality.
In AS2, things were hot even if they were behind another MC (usually to the annoyance of all) but not so with AS3?

Any help is greatly appreciated.