Chinese New Year 2010 - Year of the Tiger

This Saturday we celebrated Chinese New Year with the Families with Children from China group that we belong to.

Norah got to see lots of her friends. Including Jen.

There were crafts to make.

A demonstration by the local Taekwondo class.

The kids paraded around the building participating in the ribbon dance and dragon dance while stepping on bubble wrap (safe indoor fireworks).

Needless to say Norah and all the kids were just a little excited about the whole thing.

Out of 20, that's right 20 tries this was the best picture that I could get of Norah with the dragon.

There was also a silent auction where I won a book and 2 passes to the Little Rock Zoo. Yeah! me.

We also had dinner and met a very nice couple with a 3 year old little girl. We hope to see them at future events.

Norah and our family were recognized, along with others for having completed our adoption this year.

We are very thankful to have such a supportive group of friends.

Update on Norah and Boo’s new hair do.

I don’t know what you would classify this hair cut as, but Brandon likes it and it works for me and Lori too, so we will roll with it. You never know what he will look like from one day to the next. He’s a good kid and stays out of trouble so no complaints. In fact he got all A’s and B’s this last semester. Way to go Brandon!

Norah was hanging on him last night like he was her best friend.

They usually don‘t hang out together so it is definite progress.

Poor Norah, she still sounds congested, so I will be taking her back to the DR. to see if there is anything else we can do for her. At least as of yesterday she didn’t need anymore fever meds. She finished up her pneumonia meds today, so we will see if they worked when she has some follow up x-rays tomorrow. Night time always seems to be the worst for her breathing and that is scary as a parent. You go into a kind of twilight sleep where you are not fully asleep but drifting in and out so you can keep and ear on your child for sounds of distress. As you can see in the photo Norah is still in good spirits during the day. She even let her Dad practice braiding her hair. You can’t see it in the photo but she has like 9 braids in her hair. What a good girl I have.
AND What a smart son.

Norah’s surgery postponed till March 26th. Why? Pneumonia in both lungs.

I don’t know what is about scheduling surgery for Norah and her getting sick but we are two for two. Two weeks before her first CI implant she got sick with a runny nose and high fever. We took her to the doctor and because it cleared up within two days and didn’t involve the lungs and she had 9 days of good health before surgery we and her doctors proceeded with her first CI.

Fast forward to yesterday. She had fallen asleep in the truck on the way to speech therapy. Then at therapy she started sneezing, by the time we got home around lunch time she started coughing every once in awhile and began to run a fever. That was treated with children’s meds for fever and cough. When Lori got home we decided to take Norah to the doctor the next day if she didn’t get better by morning. Last night was horrible. I was so worried, Norah sounded so raspy when she would breathe in and out. Lori was up with her most of the night and had to comvince her to take tylenol at 2 am. Norah spent most of the night sleeping on Lori. I was glad to see morning come. I called the clinic and they told me to come down and they would work us in. I told the docotr what was up and about Norah’s pending surgery and he checked her out and didn’t hear anything wrong with her lungs but decided to do chest x-rays just to be on the safe side. Low and behold Light Pneumonia in both Lungs. So I called Children’s and they rescheduled Norah for March 26th because it would be way to dangerous for Norah to have surgery with compromised lungs. I think she has only been sick three times since we have been home from China (approx. ten months) and now two of the times were before a surgery. Oh and that photo above was just taken 10 minuets ago. I swear she makes me laugh even when she is sick. I painted her finger and toes, the goggles were her idea. Hopefully tonight will be better for her.

Two ears are better then one.

Ha-ha this is the girl that we live with everyday!

Pleases keep Norah in your thoughts. She will be going back to Children’s hospital on the 29th of January to get her left ear implanted with a CI. It is well documented that kids with Bilateral Cochlear Implants do much better with speech, hearing in noisy situations and in discriminating which direction sound is coming from.
Right now when Norah hears Lori or I call her name she must look around at us to see who called her. With two CI’s she should start to learn where the sound is coming from.

It is amazing how the brain can tell in a milli-second that the sound hit the left ear first so that is the direction of the sound production.

We hope this will help her when she gets to school too. To hear people on her left side or right side talk to her.

She still has a long way to go before she understands speech.

We will be in speech therapy for years to help Norah learn to listen and speak. Luckily she loves going to speech therapy. I see her making progress with her listening and speech every week so we are hopeful that she will be able to communicate with her hands much more in the coming years and be starting to use her voice more.

After her ear has time to heal they will activate her left ear and we will work on wearing that ears CI processor for a month by its self to program that ear to a good mapping. Then she will start wearing both, if everything goes well within one year of coming home from China she will have gone from being profoundly deaf in both ears all the time to being able hear a whisper in both ears when her CI’s are on. We are excited and nervous about her upcoming surgery. She has a really good surgeon but there is always risks with any surgery so again pleases be thinking about her on the 29th.







That's one sharp dressed sheep!

Norah's upgrades to new CI processor called the Nucleus 5

This is Cochlear’s new CI processor called the Nucleus 5. Norah will be getting her left ear implanted soon and this is the processor she will be getting. At that time we will also get another one that we will use to upgrade her right ear with. We will keep her cochlear freedoms as backups. Hopefully it will give her better sound discrimination in noisy situations in the left ear and the already implanted right ear. I am happy with the new smaller size and I think she will be too.

Norah hits the gym.

We took Norah to a tummling class to try it out. She saw the other kids and it was BYE Mom and Dad I’m going to play! This would not have happened four months ago. She would have had to have Lori or I with her the whole time, by her side. It was nice to see her trust us enough to go play and have fun and let us watch from the parent viewing room. She will be getting her second cochlear implant this month, so after her ear heals she will start gymnastics once a week for as long as she wants to go. We were very fortunate to find a place that went the extra mile and had a person to go around just with Norah AND the owner taught at the deaf school for many years. What an amazing bonus.

Getting rid of cabin fever.

Norah, Lori and I took a trip to a school that has really good play equipment on it, dump trucks and other toys sit out to be played with. Norah was so glad to get out of the house, it has been cold for us so we have been staying inside. These photos were taken the day we took her sponge rollers out so her hair is curly.

Annie is all settled in.

We took Annie’s things to her and she got her key to her new apartment. Norah was glad to see Annie and rembered her from our other visits. I wasn’t sure how she would react but she was fine. Annie had brought Norah some gifts back from China with her. Norah could not wait to get everything on and obviously loves them all. We took Annie and two of her Chinese friends from UCA to Wal-Mart for a shopping trip to get food and supplies for the next couple of weeks. Then it was time to say goodbye and we left Annie to unpack and get settled in for another school year. We will go visit in February and go to eat and Wal-Mart, it was so good to see her again.

It's Cold and Annie is Back

Norah got to play in the snow and did all right until her hands got cold, then it was time to go into the house.

Norah and I are taking a trip to UCA tomorrow to visit with Annie and take her thingsto her that we had stored at our house while she went back to China for the summer. She was going to come back last fall but she was having fun in China and was playing soccer and tore her ACL two days before she was to board a plane back the U.S.. I missed her, she helped me keep my sanity while waiting for a referral for Norah. I took care of her and protected her like she was my daughter while she lived with us. I still care for her but she doesn't need me to look after her like I did when she was a junior in high school. It is more like the relationship between a father and his daughter that is in her second year of college. If she needs us we are close enough to help but, we find that Annie has things pretty much figured out by now and so we just make a trip to UCA every once in awhile and text her to check in once a week. Her parents like that we are here to help if needed and we like the fact that Annie still calls us mom and dad and shares her college life with us.

Sponge curler results

Can't tear eyes away from cartoons for picture! Yes, that is chocolate pudding on her face, yes it is 8am, yes there is milk in chocolate pudding. Don't judge me :)

Finally got her to smile.

MMMMMMM! I love chocolate pudding.

Nightlife, Princess party and sponge rollers

What do we do around the house at night you ask.....well, we like to dress up our stuffed sheep and then pretend to take pictures of them with our pink princess phone of course.

Norah was invited to our friend Rachael's house for her 5th birthday today. There was fingernail and toenail painting, hair curling, and dress up princess gowns and crowns. All of it was right up Norah's alley. She had a great time with all of the other girls. There was even a group picture taken on the front porch. Happy Birthday Rachael!

We are trying out the retro pink sponge curlers tonight to see if Norah will allow them to stay in her hair. She is going to be the flower girl in my brothers wedding in April and we will need to have her hair curly to camoflage the spots where it had to be shaved for her two implant surgeries. Wish us luck cause if Norah doesn't want it to happen it ...will...not....happen! We are getting alot of the hands on hips attitude lately. It is kind of cute but will have to be nipped in the bud if at all possible. I'm the Mama! I'm the boss......right?

A few pictures from 2009

Obviously this is not a complete record of 2009 but here are a few pictures of what is becoming known as the Year of Norah around our house. Happy New Year. Hopefully this next year will bring us all joy and blessings beyond measure.

2009 The Year of Norah ...continued

Christmas Day ...part deux

On Christmas Day around 2 in the afternoon we headed over for MORE fun, presents and dinner with the rest of the family. This included Brandon who had spent Christmas Eve and a few days before it over at my parents house doing some painting for them. Norah had a hard time staying out of Brandon's stocking but she reluctantly turned it over to him with the understanding that she could help him go through it. Being the super big brother that he is he gladly obliged. We all had a great time and we were showered with many gifts. It was good to have everyone together.
We are so thankful that we finally have Norah home with us. Her first Christmas was spent warm, full of treats and good food, getting way more presents than any one kid should have, able to hear what is going on around her, and surrounded by her family that loves her.

Merry Christmas Everyone

Norah’s first Christmas was wonderful, It didn’t take her long to figure out the present part of Christmas. We still have to go to grandmas and grandpas house this afternoon so she has more fun to come. Getting the referral for Norah last Christmas was a wonderful gift, having her home for the last 9 months has added to the joy and laughter in our home ever day.

We have truly been blessed by this child.

Norah's dilemma

If only there were a way to watch the cartoons that I LOVE and make sure that Daddy is paying 100% attention to me.....


























If only.......















I'm a GENIUS!!!!

Keeping Norah busy.

We took Norah to a church Christmas celebration and she got to ride a pony, go on a hay ride, and ride in a ride that in hindsight dues not look so safe, check out how close her hand is to that spring.

Anywise she and Lori built a gingerbread house too. It turned out to be a perfect blend of Norah’s favorite things cookies and candy. Norah has been playing a lot with her voice these last few weeks more then ever before and her and I are working hard on identifying the ling sounds every day. With good progress, her speech therapist wants to video her next week because she is doing so well.

Norah finds a friend, or more so the friend finds her.

We went to the Dillion International Christmas party because they had invited the local FCC to come celebrate with them. A good friend Kammy K. got volunteer of the year for Dillion she does so much for the people in our local FCC group too. Kammy was one of the people that brought us meals when we got home from China with Norah. She was the right choice for Volunteer of the year in our book.




Norah, Lori and I went to go get in line to meet Santa and there was a family waiting that had a girl the same age as Norah. She saw Norah and came right up to her and asked Norah her name. We told her that Norah was deaf and had just started to learn how to speak but that she could talk with her hands. She noticed Norah had made the same necklace as she had at the craft table and reached out for Norah’s necklace. Norah tried to back away for a little bit but this girl kept coming in close and showing Norah her necklace too. So Norah relaxed and started playing with her. She grabbed Norah by the hand and they were off to play and let there parents hold their place in line. It was such a delight to see Norah interacting with this girl even though they could not communicate with words or signs, they ran around playing with no problem.
I know it will not always be this way, as Norah gets older the gap in her communication with her peers will grow faster and faster. This will lead to her being left out of things, that will be painful for her and painful for me as a parent to witness. We will work hard over the next couple of years to lesson that gap that will build between her and her peers. Only time will tell where we end up with as Norah’s communication skills but For now I sit back and enjoy how two four year olds can still run, play, laugh, and giggle without words.
We hope to get the girls together for Chinese New Year to play.




HAHA! Norah wouldn’t turn around for the traditional photo with Santa. She was so fascinated by Santas beard, poor Santa had to hold onto it.

Norah did you get in to mommy’s Bert Bees lipstick?

Ha-ha when we give her cap stick she puts it on the same way but it is clear, good thing she showed us before she got on the couch!

Nice look Norah and yes I know you want to look at the photo in the camera.

Never a dull moment I love this kid!

Christmas Pictures 2009

Update on Norah’s cochlear implant progress.

Sheep dress up


Norah’s last test was between 60 and 40 DB with speech recognition at 35 DB, Well this week her hearing test was 35 to 30 DB with voice recognition at 30DB. That is a big jump in the right direction.
She did her best to blow the test too; she was just not into it that day after we had already had speech therapy. She wanted to play more than do a hearing test, she is four so

what you going to do?
Still big kudos to Miss Norah you have come along way in a short time.

Norah lets Lori baby her.

Since we got Norah she was not into being swaddled like a baby. She has an aversion to being held that way. She is very loving and likes to give hugs and kisses, but can only stand to be held close for short periods of time. Unless it is morning then you can get some good snuggling in with her.
Something about the cradled baby position makes her feel uncomfortable and she will quickly move away. So last night Lori went to get Norah PJs and I got her out of the shower, she was freezing. Lori dried her off and wrapped her in a blanket. Lori had things to do but she was so happy that Norah was letting her cradle her like a baby so she played along and called me into the act.

"Oh my what a pretty baby you have I", signed to Lori. Norah then signed that she needed a bottle, so I got her one of her baby bottles and she played the part of little baby and let Lori cradle and rock her.

It was sweet. I think it did them both some good.

Looks can be deceiving.

At first glance it looks like a sweet child sleeping in her car seat. While that is true, you must see how Lori and I see it. First, Norah never takes a nap at the house she goes 90 miles an hour all day, everyday until she just face plants it into the mattress at around 10 or 11 at night. So the fact that she falls asleep in her car seat is a cruel joke on Mom and Dad because we would like to have a nap too at home in a nice soft bed, not heading down the Highway doing 70.



Second, you must know what I had to pry from her hands to get this shot, that's right diet coke. It may not be the best thing for her but at least we are balancing it out with good old water. We have too or that is all Norah would drink.

You know you let your girls habit get out of control when Mom and Dad are sitting on the couch and their toddler comes down the hall in the morning with her eyes still closed and she signs soda-pop, like she wanted a little of the hair of the dog that bit her. Lord help us!

Christmas Decorations

I am trying new image size it seems to fit better so I think I will use it when I have time to post.

Preparing for her first Christmas.

We just got the boxes down to get ready to setup for this Christmas. Norah was happy to put her personal touch on the tree, we will post more photos when we are done. I am so excited that she is home this year last year at this time we had just gotten her referral and that was one of the best Christmas we had had in a long time this year seeing her reaction will be even better.

Happy Thanksgiving 2009

Norah helped prepare the deviled eggs this morning before we all headed over to Nana and Popies house. She did a fabulous job and the eggs tasted great.

Brandon is still hanging in there with the help of his pharmaceuticals from the dentist. The right side of his face is still pretty swollen but he is able to eat and drink without to much discomfort. He spent most of today snoring rather loudly on any one of the three available sofas.

We took an entire bag of crafts, movies and games over to Mom and Dad's house to try and keep Norah occupied. She is one busy girl. If her energy isn't directed into appropriate activities it gets used on things that maybe it shouldn't. We are all so thankful to have Norah here for her first of many Thanksgivings. There was an exceptionally long wait for Norah but she was worth every second. We are also so thankful for the way that our family has just accepted and loves Norah like she has been with us forever. We have so many things to be thankful for this year. Let's just say...we are truly blessed. It is as simple as that.

Norah could NOT wait to eat. Dad said that he turned around and she already had some ham on her plate cutting it up with her fork and knife. We just let her fix her plate and eat. She is just four after all, why should she have to wait on all these big people.

After lunch and some movies a huge assortment of flowers were brought out to prepare for my brother and his fiances upcoming wedding. We all (my Mother, Mildred (MIL to be), me (Lori), Bronwyn (fiance), Glen, and Eugene (my Brother) ) whipped them into shape and talked about what all else needed to be done.

Who has six, that's right six, wisdom teeth?

The boy that's who. Brandon had his wisdom teeth removed on Tuesday, all six of them. He said he read somewhere that only 3% of the population has six wisdom teeth. Lucky Brandon. He was a little nervous going in and VERY talkative when he came out due to the anesthesia. You couldn't understand anything he was saying but he was real talkative anyway. Here is his "before" picture. This is the after picture. His left side swelled a little bit more but really doesn't look to bad. We made sure that he had lots of yogurt and his favorite, flan to eat for that first day. He has done really well and has a follow up appointment next week.

The Connected Child author speaks.

Dr Karyn Purvis will be speaking at The Summit Church in North Little Rock tomorrow and thanks to the heads up from my FCC group, Lori and I will be going. This book has helped Lori and I, many of our friends in the adoption community, as well as others who have adopted to prepare for what was to come. I can remember sitting in China at a table full of parents, excited about finally meeting their children in the coming days. Norah was the second oldest child being adopted in our group. When one of the parents asked me how I thought Norah was going to act on adoption day, I said I wasn’t sure, she could come to us and give us a hug or she could come to us kicking and screaming and try to bite us. Some of the parents laughed and I said I’m serious. Well with Norah both happened on adoption day. Norah came to us laughed, giggled, fed me cheerios and played with Lori. Then when it was time to leave the kicking and screaming and trying to bite us began and lasted through the family photo and the long walk back to the hotel, finally ending at the water fountain outside our hotel. I hope anyone going to China or any other country to adopt an older child reads the Connected Child, and talks to different adoptive parents who have adopted older children. I know it helped us be prepared to help Norah and gave us some understanding as to what she was going through. It also gave us the tools we need to help her work towards a strong, healthy attachment to both her mom and I. She is doing so well with her mom and I. I will write a post about how far she has come soon. I Look forward to meeting Dr. Karyn Purvis tomorrow night

Yard work and up date from Fridays CI appointment

It was soon nice this Saturday we went out to do some yard work, it has rained so much lately that we were way over do for some cleanup. Brandon did the tree trimming this year because my back is still giving me fits, I go in for more work on it soon hopefully it will help.

Norah playing at a birthday party for a little girl she knows.



We meet with the Person from Cochlear to help get a new CI program for Norah and between her and Norah’s CI audiologist they gave her a new program. This gave Norah not only more sound but also her dynamic range went from 18 to 30, with 40 being the top of the dynamic range her CI can produce that is a good jump. Dynamic range has to do with range of sounds Norah is able to hear from the softest to the loudest.
Norah will be tested again in the hearing both in one month to see how she is doing with this new program. And the other good news is if she needs it the new program still has more room to go up if needed they will try to get her in the lowest program that will provide her good sound and only move up if needed. Doing the at home listing practices with Norah and Lori, I was doing the ling sounds, and also calling Norah’s name at a whisper she heard me every time it was wonderful to see her turn her head when she would hear me call her name at a whisper. We look forward to seeing what the hearing test results will be and see if there is an improvement form the last one of 60-50-40-50-60, I know I can see a difference at home she was playing at the kitchen sink and there was a bowel of water in the bottom and she told me to come look at it because she herd the water dripping into it.
Another thing she is starting to do is babble like she is talking to us, which is really good for development and use of her tong, mouth, and throat mussels. I don’t know for sure if Norah will ever be able to speak or comprend speech close to the way her mom and I do, but she is still willing to work at it and so are we. Sounds in Norah’s world are starting to have meaning to her as well now (a nock on the door, a car going by, the dryer buzzing when finished, the sound of her dad laughing at her antics) and she just got her CI activated 8 weeks ago and got it programmed up to a good hearing level last week so she is doing so good.

Norah edges upward in her hearing.

We were going to meet with a specialist with Cochlear two weeks ago to help map Norah's CI processor, but the person we were going to meet had H1N1 in their house so it got canceled. So me and Norah kept plugging along with listening practice at home and on this Wednesday we went into the booth at Children’s hospital knowing Norah was hearing better.
She did great, her hearing test went 60-50-40-50-60, with voice recognition at 35 DB . Considering a whisper is 30 DB that's pretty good, and she has never heard that well before and has never had voice recognition lower then 50 DB. So we are on the right track! We are going to meet with the specialist from Cochlear this Friday to help with a map to try to get her more sound and I am looking forward to what they have to say. Norah’s couple of words she now has are starting to take shape bye bye now sounds just like bye bye. That still is the only word she knows well and uses regularly. We are working on producing sounds with our mouth right now then we will turn those sounds into words that have meaning, same way we did bye bye. We are constantly adding new words to our signing and it is getting easier to sign, although I still find myself stuck when a word comes up that I don’t yet know, it gets better every week.

Norah's First Halloween

Norah really got inot the pumpkin carving. Her cute little pumpkin soon turned into something that would fit right into a Tim Burton movie. We just pluncked a candle down in it anyway and called it perfect. Luckily we got a picture before the massacre occured.

She loves doing Glen's hair. If we could only convince him to grow it out she might be able to get a ponytail holder in there.

On Halloween Day we made banana bread and a pumkin pie. Well Norah made them I just dumped ingredients in and put things in the stove.
Then we went Trunck or Treating at my parents church. It was great and Norah was super excited that people just handed over tons of candy when she smiled at them. There were also lots of games to play and prizes to collect. Once we got back home, where Jess and Brandon had been handing out candy, Norah got to listen for the knocks at the door and pass out candy to other children. She was extremely generous and made short work of the candy bowl. In between handing out candy she spread out her haul from the night and started chowing down. We can't wait for next year. She will have a better idea of what to expect and should REALLY get into it.

Art Center Pharoh Kids Day

The Arkansas Art Center was having a Kids Pharoh Day as part of their new Egyptian exhibit. Norah was really thrilled with all the crafts and the people dressed up in costume. She made
papyrus paper, painted a pharoh mask, made an amulet necklace and earned her junior archeologist certificate. Norah also "wrote" in hyroglyphics and was named pharoh by the volunteers. We were also glad to see Charlotte and her kids (Evelina, Riley, Raeghan, Rachael) there enjoying the fun. Norah's face just lit up when she saw them all come through the door.

We are really glad that there have started to be more fun things to do in our area for kids that don't cost alot of money and are different from the norm. Hopefully it is a trend that will continue.

Pumpkin Patch 2009

We went with some other members of the FCC (Families with Children from China) to the local pumpkin patch on Saturday the 19th. This was a new pumpkin patch for us and it was really nice. We will definitley go back next year. There were animals to look at, playground equipment to play on, hay rides, a big jumpy thing, huge sandbox, and horse rides (which were a HUGE hit). Norah had to ride the horses twice and spent most of the time riding and waving like she was the newly crowned rodeo queen. She didn't quite know what to think of the yellow wagons but after a short ride she would not get out without a meltdown.

She picked out a pumpkin for her and one for Brandon and then some little ones just for fun. It was really a fun and cheap (15.00 total) morning outing.

Sunday's Ensemble

This was the outfit that Norah HAD to wear Sunday. The tights and long sleeve shirt were a hard won addition since the weather was cold that day. She has just recently figured out that she likes to pose for her pictures when dressed up. She wore this all day and yes went out of the house in it because at this time in my parenting journey I really don't care what she chooses to wear as long as it is weather appropriate. Oh, the shoes that she chose to go with this outfit were the green, glow in the dark Halloween ghost shoes. PERFECT!
Mr. Blackwell, I dare you to say anything to her. Go ahead. I'll stand back here. This may get ugly.

The good helper

Lori was doing some gardening yesterday planting flowers and Norah was right there with her, just like Godzilla stepping on them as they worked there way throw the flowerbed. So they abandoned there plant and plant and smash job to work on the fence. Some of the nails had worked louse so they knocked them back in and added some nails as needed. Norah was eager to help and all too happy to put on her home depot nail holding apron. She likes doing crafts so much we are going to have to start marking our calendar the local Home Depot here in Cabot (and every where) has free kids workshops with crafts to do ever first Saturday of the month, starting at 9:00am until Noon or they run out of project kits.
With the economy the way it is it is nice that they still do this.
Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 the project is a “Tile Trivet” AKA Hot plate like for a pan that is to hot for the counter or kitchen table? Then Saturday, December. 5, 2009 is a small pull wagon.

Oh yeah Norah and I also bedazzled her CI prosier and lead just for fun the girls got some

bling now!
Also the support person from Cochlear is going to help with Norah’s next mapping on Thursday yeah.
I am proud that my girl will be able to mend her own fence when she gets older, if she wants to that is.






From the home depot.

The Home Depot's Kids Workshops offer useful projects including the creation of toolboxes, fire trucks and mail organizers, as well as more educational projects, such as a window birdhouse, bughouse or Declaration of Independence frame kit.

The workshops teach children do-it-yourself skills and tool safety, while at the same time helping to instill a sense of accomplishment. Additionally, this fun time allows for quality one-on-one time between adults and children.

In addition to the newly constructed project kit, each child receives a kid-sized orange apron, similar to The Home Depot associates' aprons, and an achievement pin.