Julia's First 'swim' and other misc July pictures

I finally took Julia for her 1st swim at the beginning of July.  She surprised me and actually liked it.  Matteo on the other hand was scared of the water.  He would only go on if he held on to me..TIGHTLY.  When he turns 3 I will be signing him up for swim lessons so he can get use to the water more.  

These are some cute sibling pictures:

Matteo had to sit on my mom's lap because Emily was.  He is obsessed with Emily.

My mom's bday party with the kids, smiling so nice with Julia:

And with Matteo:

Julia pictures:

Julia's first time eating Nonna's pasta and meatballs

Wasaga beach with the family

Dom took off a Friday and we decided to pack up the family and go for the day to Wasaga beach. Only an hour and 15min drive from  our house. It was really fun and a beautiful day. Matteo loved the water, building sand castles and the splash pad across the way.   Julia wasn't as much fun.  She scooched all over the beach and ate the sand.  Lol gross!  We then had lunch at Boston Pizza which they both ate a ton.  They were hungry after playing out in the sand. Then they both had a snooze on the car ride home.

Julia with her bff Madison

Taxi rides

Markham Ribfest - best pics ever!

Quick trip to Niagara Falls

We decided to go for the day to Niagara, which was pretty fun.  The kids were both really good for the car ride there and back.  We went on the big ferris wheel that over looked the falls, and we went for a nice long walk along the falls, which is where we think Julia lost her shoe :( oh well.  We then had some fun food, pizza and ice cream which Matteo enjoyed, and Julia likes pizza but not the ice cream so much (maybe too cold).  Not too much for them to do, but in a few years maybe we can do some mini putt and go into some of the fun places on clifton hill.  It was just nice to do something different with the family :) A fun time was had by all.