ear tubes...

So, I took Bull to the ENT yesterday for his check-up. His left tube has finally come out (his right tube fell out a couple of months ago). However, it did not come gracefully. It came with a nasty (and hopefully final) ear infection this past weekend. We're still on Augmentin for a few more days. And we go back in a few weeks for her to remove the tube from the canal (it would have hurt if she tried to do it yesterday). We are praying that he has no more infections over the rest of cold and flu season. If not, he probably won't have to have surgery for a new set of tubes and removal of adenoids. He's been a pretty miserable little guy with this bout of the yucks. Usually he's down for a day and then back at it the next day. This time, he was down for 4 days. Yikes!
On a different note, his speech therapy is going very well. He's had two meetings with his therapist. It seems like his speech has increased by at least 50%. He is starting to put two words together with more frequency and doesn't have as many mis-pronunciations or deletions. In fact, Miss S told me that if he were tested right now he wouldn't qualify for the program! I plan to continue the speech therapy until he's at least caught up or ahead of where he should be. It's amazing to watch her work with him. He has no idea that she's teaching him because she's just playing! Yet he is "blooming" very nicely! I am going to have two chatterboxes on my hands very soon!