Landon's hearing

We have gone through quite an interesting experience with Landon regarding his hearing. I started noticing that he didn't always respond to me telling him things about three months ago, but what three year old does? I figured it was just a normal age, selective hearing thing. He also has a lot of ADD tendencies (but again, which child his age doesn't?) and it runs in my family, so I thought that may also be a contributing factor. Finally, it got to the point where he could be looking at me and I'd have to repeat something four to five times, louder each time, before he finally heard me. I would also say "key" words around him (i.e. ice cream, candy, etc...) and he wouldn't hear those either. That's when I really knew something was up :)

Long story short, we saw his Pediatrician, who somewhat reluctantly, referred us to an Audiologist, who immediately detected a large amount of hard wax in his ears. She showed me a couple of graphs that were showing how much sound/noise was making it through the outer and inner ear canal and his "bad" ear was registering below the graph! Yesterday we got his ears irrigated and the difference is absolutely amazing! Now he's continually telling me that he can hear! We're so grateful that it wasn't something permanent and that it was correctable!