Update

Well, we did see the ENT for W this week and thankfully it looks like "we can fix it!" I was a little concerned they would tell us we were crazy when we got there because of course three days before our appt. W started getting better. His cough went away, his runny nose stopped but since that's been the pattern this winter (he'll get better for a few days and then get sick again) we decided to keep our appointment.

They said he has "middle ear glue" behind his ear drum and even though it's not infected it just is too thick to drain which is why he keeps getting sick. So they put him on one more round of meds and if this doesn't work we'll try tubes. They were concerned that he's only saying 5-6 words and think that's probably because he's not hearing normally. So hopefully if they can drain his ears he'll hear better which will aid his speech development. W tends to often ignore me when I speak to him so I'm enjoying getting to use the excuse that he's probably just not hearing me. But alas, deep down I know he's just being a typical stubborn little toddler!