diff --git a/src/main/java/abstractSyntaxTree/Class/FieldDecl.java b/src/main/java/abstractSyntaxTree/Class/FieldDecl.java
index a79fe5d..a7c500f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/abstractSyntaxTree/Class/FieldDecl.java
+++ b/src/main/java/abstractSyntaxTree/Class/FieldDecl.java
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import TypeCheck.AbstractType;
 import TypeCheck.TypeCheckException;
 import TypeCheck.TypeCheckHelper;
 import TypeCheck.TypeCheckResult;
+import abstractSyntaxTree.Expression.IExpression;
 import abstractSyntaxTree.Node;
 import abstractSyntaxTree.Program;
 import org.objectweb.asm.ClassWriter;
@@ -18,11 +19,13 @@ import java.util.Objects;
 public class FieldDecl extends AbstractType implements Node {
 
     public String type; // from parser
-    public String identifier; // from parser
+    public String identifier;// from parser
+    public IExpression expression;
 
-    public FieldDecl(String type, String identifier){
+    public FieldDecl(String type, String identifier, IExpression expression){
         this.type = type;
         this.identifier = identifier;
+        this.expression = expression;
     }
     public TypeCheckResult typeCheck(HashMap<String, HashMap<String, String>> typeContext) throws TypeCheckException {
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/astGenerator/ASTGenerator.java b/src/main/java/astGenerator/ASTGenerator.java
index 0b23d52..2127a6e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/astGenerator/ASTGenerator.java
+++ b/src/main/java/astGenerator/ASTGenerator.java
@@ -56,7 +56,12 @@ public class ASTGenerator extends DecafBaseVisitor<Node> {
     }
 
     public Node generateFieldDecl(DecafParser.LocalVarDeclContext ctx) {
-        return new FieldDecl(ctx.type().getText(), ctx.Identifier().getText());
+        if (ctx.expression() != null) {
+            IExpression expression = (IExpression) visit(ctx.expression());
+            return new FieldDecl(ctx.type().getText(), ctx.Identifier().getText(), expression);
+        } else {
+            return new FieldDecl(ctx.type().getText(), ctx.Identifier().getText(), null);
+        }
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -198,7 +203,6 @@ public class ASTGenerator extends DecafBaseVisitor<Node> {
         return new AssignStatementExpression(ctx.Assign().getText(),(IExpression) left, (IExpression) right);
     }
 
-    //
     @Override
     public Node visitMethodCall(DecafParser.MethodCallContext ctx) {
         String methodName = ctx.Identifier().getText();