Grammie comes for a visit!!

My mom came for a wonderful visit! Charlie had the best time with her! We did so much during the week. We went to a fun zoo that has a Thomas ride, we went swimming at this indoor mini water park. We took Grammie to all of our favorite places to play and eat! I love this picture! It is a wonderful picture of our family.

Charlie and Grammie slept so much, the activities of the week made them both so tired!
One day my mom and I left the boys at home and went into London for the day! We did some shopping, had a wonderful lunch, and we went to see Chicago. It was so much fun to spend the day together and have some fun girl time!

We did lots of cooking when Grammie was here, we had lots of chicken taco to you who know how wonderful they are yes they are still just as good. But the best thing we made was Grammies chocolate chip cookies.

Charlies favorite thing to do is to go to the park! We took Grammie to one of our favorite parks. I think Grammie was having more fun then Charlie!

Chilly in the boat at the park.

Charlie loves to play in the sand.

Charlie and his best mate Callum on the train ride at the indoor play park. These boys just love each other.

The best day of the week was when we went to this place called Drusillas Park. It is like a zoo but so much more. They have lots of animals, a wonderful park to play in, but the best part was they have a Thomas the train ride that takes you all around the park. Charlie loved it so much we went on it 3 times. This is Charlie giving Thomas some love.

Grammie, Charlie and I on the Thomas train.

Look real close you can just about see Charlie and I in with the Meercats.

Charlie with Grammie on the train.

It started to rain a bit when we were there but we did not let it spoil our day. We just went inside for a nice lunch and when we came out had stopped.

Charlie and Callum running at the park. One of the days we had a BBQ on the park it was so much fun. My mom brought us Ball park hot dogs you just cant get anything like it over here so it was nice to have a taste of home.

We had a wonderful time with Grammie! We were all sad to see her go. There were lots of tears at the airport. We hope she will come back again. I know she was so tired by the end of the week I think she was glad to be going home.

A Cheek Summer!!!

What are fun summer! We have had a really nice summer we do not want it to end. The weather here is already starting to change. We were really busy, if we were not going to the zoo we were going to the beach or the park. Charlie has really grown up a lot this summer has really become a little boy! He loves to play with balls of any kind. My sister, his Aunt Tracey sent him a big box of fun stuff at he begin of the summer and his favorite thing was his bat and ball. He uses that bat to hit balls all of the time. So life with the Cheek family is great! This has got to be my favorite picture of all time. I really do just love that boy!

Charlie playing and digging on the beach is one of Charlies favorite things to do.

Charlie doing some drumming at a fair we went to.

Charlie and his best friend Callum were in a race! Charlie come in 5th followed in by Callum who came in 6th. It was a really fun day!

We went Strawberry picking and Charlie loved all of the berries has he calls them. He did not want to eat them he want to keep them forever.

The two boys looking at the gorillas with Mama.

Martin's cousin Tina and her husband Jens and their son Andreas came from Denmark for a visit. It was really nice to see the boys play together and laugh. We went on the mini railway to the beach the boys loved the train!

The boys on the beach!

Charlie on the train he really had the best time!!!

Charlie got his second haircut, he was so good. He sat for so long like a big boy.

Playing at the park!

I guess he wanted to leave the park, but for some reason I loved this picture!

Making cakes with Callum, Papa, and Mama!

Charlie and Callum on the train ride at kids planet like real big boys! That was our summer so far. We have a few more things to look forward to in the next few months but we are most excited about going to see the Lakers!! Yes we are going to see the LA Lakers in London! OK OK mom no really we are most excited to see you! See you in a 9 days mom!!

Cheek Family update!

What a few months!! I have been very bad with updating the blog. So here is a little update into out lives over the past few months. Charlie is doing wonderful, talking so much and really running and jumping now. He keeps us busy! The biggest change is I have a new job that is so much closer to home. I was working in Ashford, which is a 20 min train journey away. Now I am working at a school that is really just across the street! Charlie can come to work with me, which can be a good thing and a bad thing at times. He doesn't understand that I work there and I can't be with him all of the time. We are still watching Callum on the weekends and Rachel has Charlie 2 days a week. Its nice so he doesn't have to go to school 5 days a week. We are members to the zoo here so we like to go there alot. Charlie really loves the monkeys!! Martin is not playing American football this year, but he is really gotten back into playing squash which he loves! We have a lot of fun things to look forward to this summer. Martin and I are really looking forward to watching the world cup. England and America are playing each other on June 12th. Charlie is all ready for the game with his America shirt ohhh and his England hat.

This is Callum and Charlie playing at the park.

Charlie and Callum during one of our many trips to the zoo. They love looking at the gorillas.

If you look closely you can see Charlie is sitting on his bucket reading one of his favorite books Brown Bear Brown Bear. He really is ever so cute!!

We went to Hastings for the day a few weeks ago and we went out for a nice lunch at a Italian place by the beach. For a treat we let him have his own gelato ice cream. We also went to the aquarium there Charlie loved all the fish.

The boys playing with Charlies new car garage with buckets on their heads. They love to wear the buckets all of the time.

Charlies First Haircut!!

We took the boys to Leeds castle in the Spring it was beautiful day there!! All of the flowers were in full bloom. They have a great toddler play ground there, so we love to go there.

Charlies First day at School!!!

This is Charlie playing at his toddler group. He has been apart of this group since he was 5 weeks old. Most of the children that go we have known since then so it is really nice.
A great day at the beach!!

This past spring we took Charlie to a lambing day which is at a school. This is the school we hope Charlie can go to. They have a huge working farm at the school.


Charlie found the pots and pans!! He loves to play music with them.
Charlie after doing some painting. I think more paint got him the on the paper. But it was so much fun!

Charlie is a Dot Com

Hello friends and Family, This Christmas Charlie Cheek was give a great Christmas Present from his Uncle Michael and Auntie Tracey. They brought him his own web page, to view this page go to www.charliecheek.com

Christmas and New Year trip to USA

On Wendesday 16th December 2009 we took off from Heathrow airport our destination San Diego, California. We left the house at 5am so it was up early, well for some of us it was out the door on our PJs. Overall the jouney went really really well, Charlie was the best traveller ever, there was no fuss or tantums.




This is Charlie in his little Bed on the Plane, he only slept 2 hours on a 8 hour flight but enjoyed walking the whole length of the plane a number of times.

We sure had fun at the Park, My Auntie Tracey, Grammie and I all enjoyed the swings. (look at us go!)

I love this photo can you tell there sisters, There was not promting them to tilt there heads.

On our little trip to Simi Valley to Visit our good friends Sara, Alex and Lily we went to the Ronald Reagan Museum and took a look around Air Force One. Was really cool.

On our way to the Kids Science Museum we got a peak at the Rose Bowl Parade Floats. The looked cool.

Even though I only have a American Passport, Im still proud to be made in Britain. (I will get my British passport soon), I had so much fun at the Kids Science Museum.

I loved having a bath with my Girlfriend Lily.

Charlie and his buds Caeden and Carson

Great photo all the Girls with there little ones, It has take a few years for this to happen.

2 Points

Our Friends Walker and Caeden

Looks like Sara was having a fun time.

Would you believe me when I say Meagan was not Drunk!!

Hapy New year Sara and Alex.

Happy New Year Martin and Meagan.

Written by Martin Cheek