Can you hear me??

So with some persuasion from some friends of mine I took my 4 year old to the local head start screening with the school district because I'm worried about how well he can do directions and have wondered if it's a major problem or not. So we show up and they fit us in and we are there for about a hour and half getting tested. He was really cute thought it all and did pretty good I thought. We had a vision test and then we waited for a hearing test. It was taking the kids a couple of minutes each to get though the screening. It was then our turn and we ended up in there for 20-25 minutes. I'm sure the people waiting hated us but oh well. They questioned enough if he could hear some of the tones they put this thing in his ear that sent waves to his middle ear and back and something was blocking the waves from coming back. He failed in both ears. They suggested I take him to the dr. and get him looked at. Then on he way out they came to me with the results of his other tests. He scored really high on his content knowledge- score for me. I've been working with him all year and with preschool. But his cognitive learning (problem solving) was below average so they want to retest him later in the summer. I'm thinking how do you even teach a kid how to problem solve? He usually makes a lot of decisions at him and makes choices but when to try to show him how to do a puzzle for example it can be like pulling teeth. I'm not too worried about it because heck he is FOUR. And not 5 until next year so we have a whole other year of preschool to work on some of this stuff.

The one that did worry me was his hearing stuff. I took him into a ear-nose and throat dr. yesterday and we found out he has fluid in both ears pretty bad. I had no idea. I bet it's been there for awhile because I think back to the last 6 months or so and I can remember a lot of times that I was talking to him or calling him and he seemed to not hear me and I would get frustrated with him thinking he was ignoring me. I feel really bad not for getting mad at him and putting him in time out for it and he may of not been able to hear me. We are trying some antibiotic first with a medicated nose spray trying to get his adenoids and tonsils down (they are HUGE he said) which may be causing the fluid to be there. If this works then all is well. But if it doesn't we may have to take them out. To Bryan and I we are so happy that this isn't a life long thing for him and either way we can fix it and he can hear better. We are just hoping and praying that the medicine is enough to fix it but if not we will do what we need to get him better.