Chapter 29
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Emma made a mad dash for her mommy's classroom once her teacher finally let her leave. She had some very big news to share with her mommy, and she was just so excited.
Snow was writing something on the chalkboard for tomorrow's lesson and could hear Emma's little footsteps coming into her room. She could tell by her quick feet that Emma was very excited about something today.
"Mommy, Mommy!"
"Hi baby," Snow said as she turned and gave her daughter a smile.
"Guess what, Mommy!" Emma said, jumping up and down with excitement.
"What? What?" Snow asked as she knelt down to give Emma her full attention.
"Look!" Emma said, opening her mouth and pointing to the hole where her bottom tooth use to be. "I lost my tooth today!"
"Oh wow," Snow said as she took Emma's head in her hands and examined the new hole in her mouth. "That tooth finally decided to come out after all." Emma has had that loose tooth for weeks now, they thought that thing might never come out.
"Yeah! And look at this!" Emma held up a tiny tooth shaped box. "The nurse gave me this to put my tooth in too! Wanna see it?"
"Sure, Em," Snow said with a little laugh.
"Okay." Emma fumbled with the tiny box, trying to open the lid. When she did manage to get the box open, her tooth came flying out and onto the floor. "Oops!" Emma looked all around her feet, but she didn't see her tooth. "Mommy! Where is it?" Emma asked in a panic.
"Uh…" Snow looked all around.
"I have to find it Momma, so the Tooth Fairy will come!"
"Don't worry, we'll find it," Snow assured her, then she spotted the tooth under one of the desks. "Ahh, here it is!" Snow bent down to pick up the tooth and held it out to Emma.
Emma let out a sigh of relief. "Thanks Mommy." Emma carefully put the tooth back in her box, making sure the lid was closed very tightly. When she looked up, she saw her daddy walking into the room. "Daddy!" Emma ran right into his arms. "What are you doing here?"
"I came to pick up my two favorite girls," David said, giving her a kiss on the cheek.
"Daddy, I lost my tooth today!" Emma told him as she held up her box. She gave the box a little shake. "Do you hear it in there?"
"I do."
"But you can't open it Daddy because I almost lost it, and I don't want to lose it again."
"Okay, princess. I won't open it," David said with a laugh. "Did you pull it out yourself?"
Emma shrugged her shoulders. "I was just wiggling it during story time, and it came out!"
"I'm glad you finally got that thing out of there." David had been begging Emma for days to let him pull it out, but she refused. She promised him he could pull her next wiggly tooth out though. "I get the next one, right?" he asked with a wink.
"Yeah, Daddy!" Emma said with a nod of her head.
"David, we'd better go so we're not late," Snow said as she gathered her things.
"Where are we going?" Emma asked.
"Mommy has a doctor's appointment," David told her.
"We're going to get to see a picture of the baby today, Em," Snow told her with a smile.
"Okay," Emma said with a shrug of her shoulders.
As they all made their way into the hospital, Emma looked curiously up at her parents. She didn't like this place. "I don't have to get a check up do I?"
"No, Emma. This is just for Mommy and the baby," David assured her.
"No shots?"
"No shots," Snow told her.
"Okay," Emma said with a nod of her head. "Daddy…" Emma held up her arms to him. She still felt nervous being here.
"I've got you, princess," David said as he scooped her up in his arms.
Emma laid her head down on his shoulder and snuggled him close.
"I don't see it," Emma said as she focused on the screen in front of her. Her mommy and daddy said her baby brother or sister was there, but she could not see the baby anywhere.
"Right there, Em," Snow said, pointing to the screen.
Emma squinted, trying to see. She just shrugged her shoulders. She still didn't see a baby on there. "Are you sure you have a baby in there?" Emma asked.
"Listen, Emma. What do you hear?" David whispered to her.
Emma listened carefully and heard a quiet beating. "Is that your heartbeat?" Emma asked her mommy.
"No, that's the baby's little heartbeat," Snow told her.
Emma furrowed her eyebrows. "Oh…so it really is in there?"
Snow and David exchanged a glance. They were hoping Emma would be more excited about seeing the baby and hearing the heartbeat. They knew she would come around eventually though.
"Emma, do you want one of the pictures of the baby?" Snow asked once they were all settled back in the car. Dr. Whale gave them a few sonogram pictures to keep.
"No, that's okay," Emma said with a shrug of her shoulders.
"Alright," Snow said with a small smile, putting the pictures back in her purse. "Your dad and I have a surprise for you."
"What is it? What is it?" Emma asked.
"How would you like to go see the horses today?" David asked her as he glanced back in the rearview mirror.
"Yeah! Can I ride one too? Can I?" Emma's face lit up, she was so excited she'd been wanting to go see the horses for a really long time.
Emma hid behind her mommy's legs as her daddy brought the horse out of his stall. She never actually saw a real horse before, and they were a lot bigger than Emma thought they would be.
"Go on, little one. Why don't you pet him," Snow said, trying to coax Emma out from behind her.
"Okay," Emma said with a nod of her head. She walked closer to the horse trying to be brave. Emma looked up at the big brown horse and gave him a small smile. She watched as the horse looked down at her, then moved his face closer to the top of her head. Emma quickly ran back behind her mommy's legs. "Ahh, Momma. He's gonna eat my hair."
"He's not going to eat your hair, Em," David said with a laugh.
"Come here," Snow said as she picked Emma up, placing her on her hip. "He just wants to smell you. That's how he gets to know you." Snow took Emma's hand in hers and slowly reached out towards the horse, placing their hands under his nose.
Emma giggled as the horse sniffed her hand. "That tickles." Emma reached her hand up to give the horse a little pet.
"See he likes you," David told Emma with a wink.
"I like him too," Emma said with a smile as she continued to stroke his mane.
David climbed onto the horse and reached his hands out for Emma. "Ready to go for a ride?"
"Uh huh," Emma said with a nod of her head. She felt her mommy lift her higher and into her daddy's arms.
David settled Emma right in front of him and took ahold of the reigns. Snow mounted her horse, and they all went for a little ride through the fields. After awhile, David gave the horse a nudge to get him galloping. Emma was a little startled at first. She wasn't expecting that, but quickly realized how much fun this was. She liked going fast. David and Snow couldn't stop smiling at her little giggles. Eventually, Emma was comfortable enough to sit on the horse all by herself. David led her around the field while Snow took lots of pictures. This was a day they would want to remember forever.
Once they finished their ride and put the horses away, they grabbed some take-out from Granny's and headed home. After dinner, Snow and David gave Emma a bath and it was just about bedtime. Emma was looking around for her blanket and found it sitting on the chair. She grabbed the blanket and looked up, spotting her mommy's purse on the table. She climbed up onto the chair and peered inside. She grabbed one of the pictures of the baby and studied the black and white blob on the paper.
"What do you have there, Em?" Snow asked when she came into the room and saw Emma looking at something in her purse.
"I was just trying to see that silly baby again," Emma said with a shrug as she shoved the picture back inside. She still couldn't see the baby in that picture.
"I can show you if you'd like," Snow offered with a smile.
Emma just shook her head and rubbed her eyes. "No, that's okay. I'm sleepy." Her eyes popped open wide when she remembered… "My tooth! Momma, I have to put it under my pillow! Where is it?" Emma couldn't remember what she did with her little tooth box after they left school.
Snow winced and closed her eyes, trying to remember where that tooth was. "Daddy has it," Snow said, opening her eyes and pointing to the bedroom where Charming was. "You gave it to him at the stables, remember?"
"Oh yeah, he put it in his pocket," Emma said as she wiggled down from her mommy's arms and ran to where her daddy was. "Daddy! Daddy!"
"I have it right here, princess," David said, holding up the tiny tooth box.
"Thank you, Daddy," Emma said with a smile as she took the box from him.
David scooped Emma up into his arms. "How about we get you into bed, so you can put that tooth under your pillow?"
Emma nodded her head. Snow and David took her upstairs and got her all settled under her covers, her tooth safely beneath her pillow.
"I'm so excited," Emma told them with a smile. "I don't know if I can sleep."
"Well, you have to sleep or she won't come," Snow told her with a shrug of her shoulders.
Emma sighed. "But what if I pretend to sleep and open my eyes just a little bit like this?" Emma squinted her eyes and peeked through them up at her mommy and daddy. "Then I can see her, but she'll think I'm asleep."
"I don't think it works that way, kiddo," David told her.
"The Tooth Fairy is smart. You have to really be asleep if you want her to come," Snow added.
"Alright," Emma said with a nod of her head. She snuggled down under her covers some more and laid her head on her pillow. She closed her eyes and tried really hard to go to sleep.
"Goodnight, little one," Snow whispered.
"See you in the morning, princess," David said softly. "We love you."
They both gave Emma a kiss on the cheek before heading downstairs.
Once they were gone, Emma lifted her pillow to make sure her tooth was still under there. She picked up her little tooth box and gave it a shake…just in case. She smiled when she could hear her tooth rattling around inside. Emma placed the box carefully back under her pillow. She closed her eyes again and drifted off to sleep.
