Can you hear me?

I can't get enough of this little guy!  He is my favorite then he drives me nuts in the same minute.  This is his "cheese" face even though he really can't say cheese.  I'll explain- at one point a few months ago he would say 10-15 words like Jesus, this, that balloon etc. and pretty soon I never heard him say them anymore.  At his 15  month check up my dr. noticed fluid hanging out in his left ear but we weren't sure if it was a infection on it's way out or not.  So at his 18 month check up when he had fluid in both ears pretty bad we got an appointment with the ENT.  Ty went in to get his tubes out and got Stockton evaluated to get them in.  Poor Stockton was beside himself.  He FREAKED out! He screamed all the way through Dr. Blotter looking in his ears and the test they did to check the pressure in his ears.  It should have taken like 2 minutes for the test but it took like 15 because he just sat and screamed on my lap shaking. His left ear totally failed the test and the right one was not that far behind it. So we will get tubes in his ears in a couple of weeks. It breaks my heart to think about it because dr.'s scare him so bad but compared to the surgeries that Tyson's put us though this is no big deal. It's like a 10-15 minute thing.  I just feel so bad that he can't hear!  He babbles all the time so I'm really interested to see what he does when he can finally hear.