Still Doing Good

Oakley is now 7 1/2 months old and is doing great. She is around 13 pounds which is small, but the doctors say that she may always be small and petite. She likes to lay on a blanket in the floor and she rolls all over the place trying to get things. She had to go for her 6 month checkup a few weeks ago with her surgeon and everything continues to be fine. We have had little to no complications with our little miracle. We had to attend my Grandfathers funeral this past week and we had many people that just wanted to meet Oakley, because she had been on there prayer list at Grandads church, but they had never met her. We thank God first for our miracle and everyone that said a prayer for our blessed little girl. She is proof that prayers are still answered. Our computer at home crashed so it is very hard for us to keep the blog updated like we should, and we apologize for this. If you are new to our Blog and you are going through the CDH nightmare our hearts are with each of you and we pray that you never give up hope and that you stay close to God and believe in the miracle of prayer. May God bless each one of you and your family.

Love, Brian Irvin

6 months old

Oakley turned 6 months old today and she is doing great. She is the queen of the house and I think that she knows it. She loves to lay on her stomach, when we lay her in her baby bed she immediately roles to her stomach and then just stares at you. She has been a blessing and we know this and we thank God for all of it. We know that without him none of this would be possible. Oakley continues to amaze us each day at what a wonderful baby she is. Oakley is still very petite and probably always will be, she weighs a little more than 11 pounds now. Oakley is a wonderful sleeper and only cries when it is time to eat. Our family has been blessed and we all know this and will never take our little miracle for granite. We thank each one of you that have read about our child and have prayed for her. We continue to pray each day for any of you that are going through CDH with your child, may God bless each one of you like he has blessed us.

Brian Irvin and Family

5 Month's Old

Oakley is now 5 months old and is doing great, between Oakley and her three brothers we are staying very busy. Oakley is growing, she is now around 11 pounds and is the happiest baby that you have ever met. She has the most beautiful laugh and the greatest personallity, we have been truly blessed to have such a wonderful daughter. For the people that read our Blog that are going through what we have with CDH, our hearts go out to you. The one thing that you cannot do is give up, we were very lucky with Oakley and blessed that we got through this as easily as we did, but the one thing that never changed was our faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We prayed and prayed everyday, along with friends and family, our church and church's that we don't even know how they new about Oakley prayed for our daughter, and we were blessed with wonderful doctors, but without God, none of this happens and we know this. May God bless each person that reads this, and thank you for your prayers

Sincerely, Brian Irvin and our Family

Happy Father's Day!!

Happy Father's day to all the wonderful Dad's out there.
Oakley went for her four month check up this past week.
She is now 10lbs 8oz. Oakley's doctor said that she is very
danty and that she will most likely be a very petite
little girl. We are ok with this as long as she is
healthy. She also told me that Oakley is right where
she should be developmental wise except for talking
and that she was above her age for that. Oakley talked
the whole time. She is saying HEY to everyone that
says hey to her. It is sooooo sweet.
Oakley got her second round of shots and this time
it wasn't as bad as it was at 2 months. She didn't
cry near as much so I didn't either. It brakes my
heart to see her hurting.
We are truely blessed to have our little Oakley
she is our piece of heaven along with her 3
awesome brothers.

Peyton's finger healed very nicely (Thanks for all
the prayers and well wishes) and he was
able to pitch in 3 All-Star games. His team
lost in the semi finals but they had a nice
run for the district championship, Peyton
told everyone that the winners better
enjoy it because next year his team was winning.
Peyton would play baseball 24/7. He just
loves the game.

Christopher has started All-star practice
and will start playing July 6th.
Our summer has been very busy this far and
shows now signs of slowing down.

Auston will start an internship at a local
funeral home next week. This is a great
opportunity for him. He has talked about
wanting to be a mortition for years and this
will give him the opportunity to see if it is
really what he wants to do.

Brian and I are loving every moment that we have
with our family. We have been blessed as parents
and thank GOD dailey for our daughter and our 3 sons.

May God continue to Bless you all. I will post some
new pictures soon.

Hard to keep up!!

It is so hard to keep up with posting on the blog.
Oakley is doing great she is weighing around 9 1/2 pounds.
She is talking (baby talk) alot, she is laughing out loud
everyday and loves to be talked to. She is amazing. She will
be 4 months old on Friday and it doesn't seem like it. Time
sure does fly.

Oakley isn't the only one that has been keeping us busy, now
that school is out our three wonderful boys are keeping us on
our toes. They are wonderful helpers.

Peyton our youngest son is 7 and this is the first year that
he has been eligible for All-Stars in baseball. They announced
the players on June 1st and he was so excited about making the
team. He told me he had waited his whole life for this.

Friday night while at practice Peyton went to the bathroom, the door
is a big metal door with a spring that makes it close really fast.
Well Peyton wasn't able to get his hand out of the way before the
door closed and it cut the end off one of his fingers (only a little
skin held it on). It cut it so bad that you could see the end of the
bone. The doctor told us that if it had been a hair more it would have
been much worse. They were able to stitch the end back on but are unsure
if it will hold. We have to take him Monday to see an Orthopedic surgeon to
make sure the finger is healing. Peyton has done great. He hasn't complained
any. He is only worried about being able to play baseball. Please
keep him in your prayers. He is a tuff little guy.

I will post again soon.