Four years ago, Ashley Davenport gave birth to twins, Aaron and Aspen.

When Aaron was just six months old, his parents noticed a ruptured blood vessel near his eye and some swelling around his skull. They took him quickly to a hospital.

A scan showed a large mass in Aaron’s brain — a tumor. The Davenports’ life was changed in an instant. A doctor asked Ashley if she would rather drive straight to Portland or board a medical helicopter and fly there.

“My heart dropped,” said Ashley. “I was speechless. One day I felt like I had a normal, loving, snuggly infant. The next I was terrified.”

In Portland, Aaron was diagnosed with chroid plexus, a rare form of brain cancer.

Doctors soon attempted to surgically remove the tumor, but that was unsuccessful. The surgery was supposed to last six hours, but as it stretched into hour 12 Ashley knew something had gone terribly wrong. Infant Aaron had bled out more than 10 times his blood volume. Doctors finally ended the surgery and gave the family the bad news.

“They insinuated that they were stopping so we could come in and hold him before he died,” remembered Ashley. “It was minute to minute.”

But those minutes came and went and Aaron kept fighting. He regained his strength, but the surgery left some lasting scars. Soon Aaron was suffering through dozens of daily seizures that were increasing in their intensity.

And he still had a cancerous tumor.

Because of the trauma from the first surgery, the Davenports decided to try chemotherapy instead. It was hard on a toddler. At Seattle Children’s Hospital Aaron lost his hair and got sick a lot, but the chemo worked. The tumor shrunk and the cancer disappeared. Currently, doctors have told Aaron he has “no evidence of disease.”

But the seizures kept coming, and the family and doctors decided the best course of action would be a hemispherectomy, which removed a quarter of Aaron’s brain and “disconnected” another quarter. The surgery helped root out the cancer and reduce Aaron’s seizures, but it left him damaged.

He can still walk and talk, but he has lost motor skills on his left side and will need braces to help him move for the rest of his life. His vision was also permanently impacted.

“But because he is so young there are therapies that can help him regain functioning,” said Ashley.

He may never get back fine motor skills on one side of his body, but Ashley has learned never to underestimate her son. He goes to speech, occupational or physical therapy almost every day. And he takes swim lessons alongside his twin sister, too — one of their favorite activities.

Oishi, Redmond’s downtown Japanese restaurant, has been hosting an annual fundraiser for a local person in need. For their 10th anniversary, the restaurant chose Aaron Davenport as the recipient of this year’s event, scheduled for Saturday, July 1.

The restaurant will be open for lunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and for dinner from 4-8:30 p.m. and all sales throughout the entire day — both sit-down and carryout — will go directly to the Davenports. In addition, silent auction items donated from local businesses will be raffled off, including bicycles, snowboards and floral bouquets.

Ashely said they would like to use the funds to purchase an ADA-accessible play structure or an adaptive bicycle.

Earlier this year he was named an honorary office by the Redmond Police Department, and Ashley said he loved his badge and checking out the SWAT car. He’ll be at the next National Night Out alongside officers.

Ashley said there are putting no limits on Aaron and his future. She said she loves watching him develop into a young boy. He loves pizza and french fries, music and dancing.

“He has overcome all odds as it is, he’s overcome every challenge,” said Ashley. “I don’t plan to put any limits on what he can do.”