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Chapter 2
The sun was shining in through the nursery windows, letting the nice breeze of the early spring air fill the room. Snow sat on the floor only a few feet away from her young daughter who was playing with her new toys while lying on her tummy. Snow let out a couple giggles as she watched Emma attempt to stuff her mouth with each toy, to only get frustrated when they wouldn't fit and would move on to the next one. "Emma?" Emma raised her little head, her green eyes looking at her mother. "What should we do with ourselves this afternoon?" Snow scooted closer to her baby girl and picked her up. "We can go and visit some friends. That could be fun." Emma smiled and reached out for her mother's long black hair and in response Snow took Emma's little fingers and gave them a kiss and sat her back down on the ground with a pillow to support her little back. "So, what do you say, Em? Should we go and visit some friends? Or should we go and sit outside now that it's nice out?"
"How about spending the day with your husband and father?" Snow turned her head to see Charming walking into his daughter's room. Emma instantly smiled and reached her hands up to her father. "How's my princess doing?" He kissed Emma on the head and ran his fingers through her little blonde hair and in response she giggled. "I'm guessing that means good."
"We would love to spend the day with our daddy but doesn't he have work to get done?" Snow raised a brow knowing very well how much her husband hates doing paper work and would much rather spend time with his princess.
Charming leaned down and placed a kiss on her cheek. "I swear I got all my work done this morning just so I could spend the day with my girls." He smiled and sat behind her.
Feeling his arms tightly around her body, Snow relaxed leaning against him. "His girls would like that very, very much. In fact Emma was missing her Papa so much that we had to sleep with his shirt." She pointed to one of his night shirts laying on the chair.
"So other than taking my sleep wear, what have we been up to this lovely morning?"
"Well, after Emma and I slept in a little, we had some breakfast and we've been in here playing with her new toys. We had some tummy time and now we are currently sitting, I leaning on you and Emma leaning on her pillow." She laughed as she felt Charming give her side a little tickle. "We were also having a very in-depth conversation about our plans for the rest of the day."
"Oh I'm sorry, you may continue your in-depth conversation. I know how much Emma dislikes being interrupted while speaking." Snow gave his shoulder a little slap. "What? I thought it was funny," Charming laughed and gave his wife a small kiss on the temple.
Emma let out a little sound which caught both of her parents' attention. She was making little sounds while playing with her little ring toy. She found all the little different toys that were attached to it fascinating. "Emma, can you please stop getting older so fast?" Charming took a deep breath "I still feel like it was yesterday that you were still pregnant and now she's five months old." Charming closed his eyes and smiled at the memories.
"I know what you mean. At first I was looking forward to her getting a little older but time is just flying by." Snow turned her head back to Emma to see the baby on all fours about ready to start crawling. "Charming." She tried to whisper.
"Hmm?" His eyes were still closed.
"Charming, look at your daughter." She was trying to stay calm in fear that she would scare her daughter into sitting back down.
"Oh my gods!" His eyes grew wide as his daughter started to crawl towards them.
"Emma, you're crawling!" Snow exclaimed but in turn scared Emma who plopped back down onto her bottom. "Come on baby, come to mama and papa, you can do it." With the encouragement Emma moved her little body and Snow picked her up in her arms. "You did it baby!" She gave her a kiss and then it was Charming's turn.
He scooped her up and gave her a little toss in the air, earning a little giggle. "That's my girl." Charming held her up and brought her down to give her kisses all over her face. "I bet you waited for Papa to be with you so he could see this, didn't you?" He grinned. "Looks like all that tummy time and sitting time that your mommy had you do really worked." He winked at his wife and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek and went back to kissing his daughter until Emma made a weird noise out of excitement.
"Well that wasn't a usual sound," Snow laughed as she kissed the top of Emma's head.
Spotting her toys on the ground, Emma started to babble and reach for them. Taking that as a hint, Charming sat back down on the ground and let her lean against him as she played. He ran his fingers through her hair again and laughed as she would look up and show him her toys as she kept on babbling. It amazed him at how talkative she was even though she wasn't speaking a language he could understand. He looked over at his wife who was wearing the biggest smile on her face. He smiled back at her but was pulled away again by Emma shoving a new toy in his face.
"I told you she really missed her Papa." Snow kept on smiling as she watched the two people she loved most in the world interact. She couldn't help the snort she let out when she saw her husband stick one of the toys in his mouth and watched her daughter's reaction. It took Emma a couple seconds to actually see what her father had done and instantly started to laugh and tug the toy out of his mouth and stick it in her own. "Charming what are you teaching our daughter?" Snow couldn't stop laughing.
"What? I'm teaching her how to be charming." He laughed and kissed his daughter. The rest of the day was filled with laughter as the family did what they loved most and spent it with the people that they loved.
